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Rebekah Vardy, the spouse of Leicester Metropolis striker Jamie Vardy, has misplaced her libel trial towards Coleen Rooney. Phil Lewis/SOPA Pictures/LightRocket by way of Getty Pictures

Rebekah Vardy has misplaced her “Wagatha Christie” libel trial towards Coleen Rooney over a viral social media publish.

Vardy, the spouse of Leicester Metropolis striker Jamie Vardy, took Rooney, the spouse of England’s file purpose scorer Wayne Rooney, to court docket after she was accused of supplying the media with non-public details about Coleen Rooney. It got here after Rooney had staged an elaborate sting operation to search out out who was passing on tales about her non-public life.

Decide Karen Steyn stated in a written ruling on Friday that Rooney’s allegation was “considerably true.”

Steyn stated it was seemingly that Vardy’s agent, Caroline Watt, had handed non-public info to The Solar newspaper and that “Mrs. Vardy knew of and condoned this behaviour.”

The trial was nicknamed Wagatha Christie after the time period utilized by the British media to discuss with footballers’ wives and girlfriends — WAGs — and Agatha Christie, a preferred author of detective novels.

Rooney stated she posted a sequence of pretend tales about herself on Instagram with a view to discovering out who had been leaking details about her, blocking everybody other than one individual on her account from seeing the posts.

When the tales appeared within the press, Rooney posted a message concerning the supply of the leak in October 2019 by which she introduced: “It is………. Rebekah Vardy’s account.”

Vardy strenuously denied leaking the data, and she or he sued for libel “to ascertain her innocence and vindicate her status,” her lawyer Hugh Tomlinson stated.

He stated Vardy had suffered “widespread hostility and abuse” after Rooney accused her in a publish to nearly 2 million social media followers.

The case precipitated a media frenzy throughout seven days of hearings as the 2 ladies went to court docket, together with their husbands, regardless of being urged by judges and authorized consultants to settle.

The case has reportedly value all sides greater than £1 million in authorized charges.

The Related Press contributed to this report.

Supply: espn.co.uk