Coleen Rooney has claimed in her Wagatha Christie libel case that Rebekah Vardy snitched on four other WAGs too – and was caught trying to film inside tragic pop star Sarah Harding’s handbag.
In a witness statement submitted to the upcoming trial, Rooney alleged Vardy and her agent Caroline Watt 'worked together almost in a business-like fashion in order to leak private information about other high-profile individuals to the press'.
Vardy denies the claim and is suing Rooney for libel.
In a 61-page statement she has submitted to the High Court, Coleen said she launched a 'sting operation' to expose whoever was leaking private information about her because of the 'strain' it had placed on relationships with family and friends who 'felt they were potentially suspected'.
After publicly outing Vardy, Coleen claims in her witness statement a string of other WAGs came forward alleging they too had been betrayed.
This evidence has not been tested.
Coleen alleged Manchester City star Kyle Walker’s model wife Annie Kilner, 29, told her she suspected Vardy after the information she had given her which 'not many people knew about ended up in the press'.
Rooney claimed Watford midfielder Tom Cleveley’s wife Georgina, 36, messaged her saying she had been told Vardy had 'done it' to her too after she featured in a newspaper column called The Secret WAG.
She further alleged Celtic goalkeeper Joe Hart’s beautician wife Kim, 38, told her she believed Vardy was behind an article about her that appeared in the same column.
While Coleen also claimed model Danielle Lloyd, 38, the ex-wife of former Spurs, Wolves and Fulham star Jamie O’Hara, 35, 'had arguments' with Vardy about 'disclosing screengrabs' of private conversations to the press.
Rooney also claimed Vardy 'got in a spat' with singer Sarah at the 2018 National Television Awards after she 'apparently caught Becky taking photographs' of the contents of her handbag when she 'dropped it on the floor'.
Sarah died last year from breast cancer aged 39.
Vardy denied the singer’s claims and said she had not been using her phone at the time and offered to show it to her before demanding an apology.
The claims emerged in Rooney’s statement submitted ahead of next month’s libel trial at the High Court in London.
The extracts were revealed in Mrs Justice Steyn’s written judgement published today about which matters will feature in the seven-day hearing.
The judge ruled out most of them – largely on `hearsay’ grounds – except for part of the evidence relating to Danielle and Kim.
The trial will start on May 9.
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