The Wagatha Christie trial might need ended, however the drama continues because the solid of Vardy V Rooney: A Courtroom Drama has been revealed, with none apart from Michael Sheen starring as David Sherborne.
Buckle up!
The Channel 4 programme will dramatise the trial that had the nation hooked, with This Is England star Chanel Cresswell starring as Coleen Rooney and Harry Potter actress Natalia Tena as Rebekah Vardy.
Good Omens star Michael will play David Sherborne, with Simon Coury as Hugh Tomlinson QC.
The programme will juxtapose scenes from the courtroom with evaluation from the media, with actors additionally anticipated to tackle the roles of Wayne Rooney and Jamie Vardy.
The true-life drama started when Rooney accused Vardy of leaking tales on her to the press, claiming she had arrange a ‘sting operation’ by limiting entry to her personal Instagram Tales to solely Vardy’s account and posting pretend tales.
She shared her findings in a dramatic assertion, ending with the immortal phrases: ‘It’s…..Rebekah Vardy’s account’.
Vardy has at all times denied the claims and sued Rooney for libel, however misplaced the trial when it was dominated Rooney didn't defame her.
Following the trial, Justice Steyn mentioned it was ‘doubtless’ that Vardy’s agent on the time, Caroline Watt, ‘undertook the direct act’ of passing on data from Rooney’s personal Instagram account to The Solar.
She added: ‘Nonetheless, the proof … clearly exhibits, in my opinion, that Mrs Vardy knew of and condoned this behaviour, actively partaking in it by directing Ms Watt to the personal Instagram account, sending her screenshots of Mrs Rooney’s posts, drawing consideration to objects of potential curiosity to the press, and answering extra queries raised by the press by way of Ms Watt.’
The decide added: ‘In my judgment, the conclusions that I've reached as to the extent to which the claimant engaged in disclosing to The Solar data to which she solely had entry as a permitted follower of an Instagram account which she knew, and Mrs Rooney repeatedly asserted, was personal, suffice to indicate the only that means is considerably true.’
It has since been dominated that Vardy, 40, should pay 90% of Rooney’s authorized charges, costing £800,000, by 4pm on November 15. The rest of the funds might come to a complete of £1.5m. Vardy can be anticipated to pay for her personal authorized prices.
Hours after the courtroom’s judgment, Vardy shared a put up to her Instagram tales calling on Rooney, 36, to place the cash to good use.
It featured a quote from a earlier article from January 2021 through which a supply advised The Solar of Rooney: ‘She’d be far happier to see the cash they'd have spent on legal professionals being utilized in a extra constructive and productive means,’ whereas claiming the mother-of-four needed to drop the libel case as an alternative of going via a trial.
In her Instagram put up, Vardy – who's married to footballer Jamie Vardy – wrote in her personal remark: ‘Let’s hope you place your cash the place your mouth is and a few good can come out of this complete embarrassing spectacle.’
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