Rebekah Vardy was not talking about Coleen Rooney when she called someone a “nasty b****” in a text to her agent, her lawyer has said.
Vardy, 39, is suing Rooney, 35, for libel after she publicly accused her of leaking stories about her private life to The Sun.
The wife of former England captain Wayne Rooney carried out a months-long “sting operation” in which she posted fake stories on her personal Instagram page in a bid to catch out the culprit – earning the nickname “Wagatha Christie”.
She eventually pointed the finger at Vardy, the wife of Leicester City striker Jamie, who denies the allegations.
At the beginning of a preliminary hearing yesterday, the High Court heard that WhatsApp messages between Vardy and her agent Caroline Watt had been disclosed to Rooney’s legal team.
Mrs Rooney’s barrister David Sherborne claimed that “abusive” messages were sent about her – including one in which Mrs Vardy referred to someone as a “nasty b****”.
But Vardy’s barrister, Hugh Tomlinson QC, disputed the accusation today, saying: “This is not a passage about Mrs Rooney, it is a passage about someone else.”
Mr Tomlinson previously said the messages that supposedly reveal that Vardy and Ms Watt are responsible for the leaking were “selective” and left out parts of the exchanges which showed the opposite.
The barrister quoted messages from Vardy to Ms Watt in which she said she was “offended” that Rooney thought she was disclosing her personal information.
