Coleen Rooney put on a defiant display as she shopped for jaw-droppingly pricey super cars on Monday, after being dragged back to court by Rebekah Vardy over £1.8M Wagatha Christie legal bills.
The WAG, 38, cut a casual figure in a cream cable knit sweater and jeans as she posed beside the motors after being given a tour of the garage in Stockport.
Sharing snaps to her Instagram Stories Coleen first had a look at a silver Yangwang U9, which costs a whopping £184K, writing: ‘Popped into LSH auto BYD Stockport to get an exclusive first glimpse of supercars Yangwang U8 and U9.’
Before a £100K Seal SUV Hybrid: ‘Thanks to the lovely team for giving me a tour, I even managed to see the brand-new Seal U DM-i SUV Hybrid’.
The outing came just hours after Coleen’s lawyers have accused Rebekah Vardy of ‘deplorable conduct’ as the ‘Wagatha Christie‘ libel battle between the warring WAGs came back to court.
Coleen Rooney, 38, put on a defiant display as she shopped for jaw-droppingly pricey super cars on Monday, after being dragged back to court by Rebekah Vardy over £1.8M legal bills
The WAG cut a casual figure in a cream cable knit sweater and jeans as she posed beside the motors after being given a tour of the garage in Stockport
The wife of former England captain Wayne Rooney is facing a challenge at London’s High Court from Rebekah, who wants to halve a £1.8million legal bill she faces.
Rebekah, married to Wayne’s former Three Lions team-mate Jamie Vardy, lost a legal action in July 2022, having sued Coleen over claims about leaking stories.
She is now demanding a 50 per cent cut in the settlement, as it was alleged that Coleen was charging for a lawyer’s stay at a five-star Nobu Hotel.
Coleen accused Rebekah in 2019 of sharing her private information from social media to the Press – an allegation which judge Mrs Justice Steyn later ruled was ‘substantially true’.
And in October 2022, the judge ordered Rebekah to pay 90 per cent of her fellow WAG’s legal costs, with an initial £800,000 to be handed over.
The women’s lawyers have been back in court in London in a dispute over the amount to be paid, as lawyers for Rebekah said Coleen’s claimed legal bill totalled £1,833,906.89.
Rebekah’s lawyers argue that the opposing legal team’s estimate of their costs was deliberately misleading, and that it amounted to a deliberate deception of both Vardy’s side and of the court.
Coleen’s representatives say it is ‘frankly outrageous’ to accuse them of dishonesty.
The outing came just hours after Coleen’s lawyers have accused Rebekah Vardy of ‘deplorable conduct’ as the ‘ Wagatha Christie ‘ libel battle between the warring WAGs came back to court (pictured at court in 2022)
Rebekah wants to halve the £1.8million legal bill she faces in her ‘Wagatha Christie’ libel battle with Coleen Rooney
The legal bill is said to include charges for a lawyer’s stay at Nobu Hotel London (pictured)
Robin Dunne, representing Coleen today, said in his written submissions that Rebekah had shown ‘deplorable conduct’ in the case, and that costs could have been lower if ‘she conducted this litigation appropriately’.
He said: ‘This was a libel claim which Mrs Vardy chose to launch, despite knowing that the Instagram post was true.
‘Mrs Vardy refused to engage with Mrs Rooney to try and avoid these proceedings and by her conduct meant that significant additional costs were required to be incurred by Mrs Rooney.
‘It sits ill in Mrs Vardy’s mouth to now claim that Mrs Rooney’s costs, a great deal of which were caused directly by her conduct, are unreasonable.’
He said that his client’s budget was ‘not designed to be an accurate or binding representation’ of her overall legal costs.
He added: ‘There has been no misconduct here. Had Mrs Vardy conducted this matter in a reasonable fashion, Mrs Rooney would be confined to her budget and would have recovered no more absent good reason.’
And in court, he said it was ‘illogical to say that we misled anyone’.
Jamie Carpenter KC, representing Rebekah, said that the purported £1.8million legal bill included costs for a lawyer staying ‘at the Nobu Hotel, incurring substantial dinner and drinks charges as well as mini bar charges‘.
Reports today suggested that among the charges were £2,000 for her solicitor’s stay at London’s five-star Nobu Hotel and a £225 food and minibar tab.
Mr Carpenter said: ‘The costs dispute has been rendered particularly intractable by the sheer magnitude of the costs claimed by Mrs Rooney, in absolute terms and when compared to her agreed costs budget, the number of errors in the bill and the extraordinary nature of some of the costs claimed.
‘The bill, drawn at 100 per cent of the costs claimed, totals £1,833,906.89.’
Mr Carpenter said the bill was ‘drawn without sufficient care’ and had ‘a kitchen sink approach’, and included ‘over £120,000 of costs to which Coleen had no entitlement’.
He also said that Coleen’s barrister David Sherborne ‘charged total fees over the course of the proceedings of £497,850’.
