Rebekah Vardy tells court she was ‘just joking’ amid claim she leaked story

Rebekah Vardy arrives at the Royal Courts of Justice in London (Aaron Chown/PA)

Rebekah Vardy has told the High Court she was “just joking” following an allegation that she told her agent to leak a story about a celebrity having an affair with a footballer behind her husband’s back.

In a viral social media post in October 2019, Coleen Rooney, 36, said she had carried out a “sting operation” and accused Mrs Vardy, 40, of leaking “false stories” about her private life to the press.