Get all your news in one place.
100’s of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Entertainment
Mark Jefferies

Rebekah Vardy still speaking to former agent at centre of Wagatha Christie court drama

Rebekah Vardy has said she still speaks to her former agent who was at the centre of claims she leaking private stories about Coleen Rooney to The Sun.

In her court ruling, Mrs Justice Steyn said it was "likely" that Mrs Vardy's agent at the time, Caroline Watt, "undertook the direct act" of passing the information to The Sun.

In a new Talk TV interview Vardy is asked if she still speaks to Ms Watt, and replies: "I have spoken to her a couple of times. Yeah."

Interviewer Kate McCann asks: "Do you think she feels bad about it? And I asked that because obviously, in the court case, it did come out that she had said it was me, that she was responsible for one of these stories do you think that she feels that responsibility?"

"It is not a conversation that we've had," Rebecca replies. "It's not a conversation that I'd want to talk about with her just purely because of I'm so conscious of her mental wellbeing and you know, how, how it's affected her as well."

Asked if she feels let down she adds: "Well, come on, you can't ask me that."

Rebekah Vardy has said that she's still speaking her her former agent (@TalkTV)

Vardy has been left "devastated" after she lost her High Court libel battle with Coleen when Mrs Justice Steyn ruled the accusation she leaked stories to The Sun was "substantially true".

The judge was also critical of the loss of some key information for the trial by Mrs Varsy and her former agent Caroline Watt.

Mrs Justice Steyn has said the likelihood that the loss of Caroline Watt's phone was accidental was "slim" and that it was "likely" she deliberately dropped her phone into the sea.

Rebekah Vardy's agent and friend said her phone fell into the North Sea while she was filming the Scottish coastline in August 2021.

In her judgment, the judge said that on August 4 2021, an order was made for Ms Watt's phone to be inspected.

She said: "The timing is striking...the likelihood that the loss Ms Watt describes was accidental is slim."

Vardy breaks down in tears during the interview (@TalkTV)

The judge continued: "It is likely that the WhatsApp chat between herself and Mrs Vardy, as well as exchanges with journalists, was available on Ms Watt's phone when she was advised very shortly after the reveal post that such evidence must be preserved."

In terms of who was directly responsible for leaking the information,

But she added: "Nonetheless, the evidence ... clearly shows, in my view, that Mrs Vardy knew of and condoned this behaviour, actively engaging in it by directing Ms Watt to the private Instagram account, sending her screenshots of Mrs Rooney's posts, drawing attention to items of potential interest to the press, and answering additional queries raised by the press via Ms Watt."

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100’s of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.