Rebekah Vardy’s barrister ‘worked on Christmas Day’ for Wagatha case, court told

The judge ruled that Mrs Vardy, the wife of footballer Jamie Vardy, should pay 90% of Mrs Rooney’s costs, with an initial £800,000 then ordered to be paid

Rebekah Vardy arriving at the Royal Courts Of Justice, London, during the libel case Picture: Aaron Chown/PA

Rebekah Vardy’s leading barrister worked on the Wagatha Christie libel case on Christmas Day, the High Court has heard as Coleen Rooney’s lawyers contest an allegedly “unreasonable” legal bill.

Mrs Vardy, 42, lost her high-profile libel claim against Mrs Rooney, 38, in July 2022 when Mrs Justice Steyn ruled that her viral social media post accusing Mrs Vardy of leaking her private information to the press was “substantially true”.