Rebekah Vardy admits setting up paparazzi shots and taking a cut of the cash
Rebekah Vardy is currently embroiled in a legal battle with fellow WAG Coleen Rooney, who she’s suing for libel after Coleen suggested Rebekah’s Instagram account leaked her private information to the press
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Rebekah Vardy has admitted staging pictures of herself with members of the paparazzi and taking a cut of the money.
The wife of footballer Jamie Vardy made the confession in new legal documents filed as part of her law suit against fellow WAG Coleen Rooney, Daily Star reports.
Rebekah, 38, is suing Wayne Rooney’s wife for libel after she released an explosive statement on Instagram last year accusing Rebekah’s account of leaking her private information to the press.
Coleen, 34, said after becoming suspicious, she had laid a trap on her private Instagram account, posting made up bits of information that went on to find their way into the press.
The mum-of-four claimed she had blocked every account but Rebekah’s from seeing the posts, only to find that the information still got out.
She was dubbed Wagatha Christie when she unveiled her detective work, signing off her statement with “It’s….. Rebekah Vardy’s account”.
Rebekah, who was pregnant with her fifth child at the time, vehemently denied the claims and is now suing Coleen for libel, claiming she was subjected to vile trolling as a result of the post.
As part of her 59-page filing to support her libel claim, Rebekah admitted she “would receive a percentage of the revenue from their syndication” of the pictures she’d staged with the agency that were sold to media outlets.
Becky, who is taking part in the next series of Dancing On Ice, alleges that Coleen wrongfully publicly outed her as a snitch.
She also denies that she is the person behind The Sun’s Secret WAG column.
She is seeking damages and an order that would stop Coleen repeating her claims.
In legal documents filed to London’s High Court, Coleen had claimed that Rebekah “worked with a number of agencies to bolster her public persona”.
Coleen claimed that Rebekah “insisted” all the England WAGs posed for a group photo together outside of a restaurant in St Petersburg during the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
Coleen said Rebekah had “arranged” for a “paparazzo to be outside to photograph them” but that she had “not let the others know”.
It’s claimed the picture was then sold to a UK newspaper.
Coleen’s statement said it could be “inferred” that Rebekah had “received payment directly or indirectly”.
However, Rebekah says she had “nothing to do with the photograph” and insists she did not receive a payment for it.
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