Friday, 13 May 2022

Rebekah Vardy Not The Brightest

As there hasn't been much going on in the world of news recently, it would be a good time for a celebrity court case so luckily we have Rebekah Vardy suing Collen Rooney for libel after she accused her of leaking private information she obtained on Instagram to the Sun.
For those not up with the story, (and where have you been?) Mrs Rooney carried out a sting operation to find out who had been passing private information about her life to the media and wrote made-up tales on her Instagram account such as a trip to Mexico for gender selection and how she was in talks to do Strictly Come Dancing and restricted who could read them and waited to see if they would appear in The Sun. Sure enough they did until only one person was left able to read them, Rebekah Vardy.
It must be said that Rebekah has not been well advised by those around her, nobody seems to have whispered that legal proceedings may not be in her best interests but she carried on and here we are, and as expected, it is Rebekah Vardy being made to look rather stupid.
Her agent unfortunately dropped her phone containing potentially incriminating Whatapp messages over the side of a boat days after being ordered to hand it over for a forensic examination by Mrs Rooney's legal team and had 'forgotten' the password to another potentially incriminating lap top.
Vardy has now thrown her agent and friend, Ms Watt, under the bus by saying she accepted that Ms Watt was the source of leaked stories but in another bout of fortune, Ms Watt and has been deemed medically unfit to testify.
With no evidence to prove that Vardy was leaking stories to the press via Ms Watt it would appear Vardy is in the clear, or it would be if she didn't admit to doing exactly that about footballer Danny Drinkwater being arrested for drink-driving to the Sun but she said that was a one-off and the message to her agent that 'I want paying for this' was a joke between them.
The gavel has not yet come down in the court but Vardy seems to be relying on there being no evidence, what with it being at the bottom of the North Sea and locked away on an defunct laptop but it is ironic that she is suing for libel, the publication of a false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation because admitting spying on her husband’s friends and trying to sell their stories to papers isn't doing much for her reputation at the moment.

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