Coleen Rooney put on a defiant display as she shopped for eye-wateringly expensive supercars on Monday, after Rebekah Vardy dragged her back to court over £1.8million Wagatha Christie legal bills.
The WAG, 38, cut a casual figure in a cream knitted jumper and jeans as she posed next to the engines after being given a tour of the garage in Stockport.
Sharing snaps on her Instagram Stories, Coleen got a first look at a silver Yangwang U9, which costs a whopping £184,000, writing: “Walked into LSH auto BYD Stockport for an exclusive first look at the Yangwang supercars U8 and U9”.
Before a £100K Seal SUV Hybrid: “Thanks to the lovely team for giving me a tour, I even got to see the new Seal U DM-i SUV Hybrid.”
The departure occurred a few hours after Coleen’s. Lawyers accused Rebekah Vardy of ‘deplorable conduct’ like the ‘Wagatha Christie‘The defamation battle between warring WAGs is back in court.
Coleen Rooney, 38, put on a defiant display as she shopped for eye-wateringly expensive supercars on Monday, after Rebekah Vardy dragged her back to court over £1.8million legal bills.
The WAG cut a casual figure in a cream knitted jumper and jeans as she posed next to the engines after a tour of the garage in Stockport.
The wife of former England captain Wayne Rooney faces a challenge at the High Court in London from Rebekah, who wants to halve the £1.8m legal bill he faces.
Rebekah, married to Wayne’s former Three Lions teammate Jamie Vardy, lost legal action in July 2022, after suing Coleen over allegations of leaking stories.
She is now demanding a 50 per cent reduction in the settlement as Coleen was alleged to have been charging for a lawyer’s stay at a five-star Nobu hotel.
Coleen accused Rebekah in 2019 of sharing her private social media information with the press, an allegation which Judge Steyn later ruled was “substantially true”.
And in October 2022, the judge ordered Rebekah to pay 90 per cent of her fellow WAGs’ legal costs, with an initial payment of £800,000.
Lawyers for the women have returned to the London courts in a dispute over the amount to be paid, as Rebekah’s lawyers said the legal bill claimed by Coleen amounted to £1,833,906.89.
Rebekah’s lawyers argue that the opposing legal team’s estimate of her costs was deliberately misleading and amounted to deliberate deception on the part of both Vardy and the court.
Coleen’s representatives say it is “frankly scandalous” to accuse them of dishonesty.
The revelation came just hours after Coleen’s lawyers accused Rebekah Vardy of “deplorable conduct” as the “Wagatha Christie” defamation battle between warring WAGs returned to court (pictured in court in 2022 ).
Rebekah wants to halve the £1.8m legal bill she faces in her ‘Wagatha Christie’ defamation battle with Coleen Rooney
The legal bill is said to include charges for a lawyer’s stay at the Nobu Hotel London (pictured)
Robin Dunne, who is now representing Coleen, said in written submissions that Rebekah had shown “deplorable conduct” in the case and that the costs could have been lower if “she had pursued this litigation appropriately”.
He said: “This was a defamation lawsuit that Ms Vardy decided to bring, despite knowing the Instagram post was true.”
‘Ms Vardy refused to cooperate with Ms Rooney to try to avoid these proceedings and her conduct meant that Ms Rooney had to incur significant additional costs.
“It does not sit well with Ms Vardy to now claim that Ms Rooney’s costs, many of which were caused directly by her conduct, are unreasonable.”
He said his client’s quote was “not designed to be an accurate or binding representation” of his overall legal costs.
He added: ‘There has been no misconduct here. If Ms Vardy had handled this matter reasonably, Ms Rooney would have been confined to her budget and would not have recovered any more missing grounds.’
And in court he said it was “illogical to say we deceived anyone.”
Jamie Carpenter KC, representing Rebekah, said the alleged £1.8m legal bill included the costs of a solicitor staying “at the Nobu Hotel, incurring significant expenses for dinner and drinks, as well as charges for the minibar.”
Reports today suggested that among the charges were £2,000 for his lawyer’s stay at London’s five-star Nobu hotel and a £225 bill for food and a minibar.
Mr Carpenter said: “The costs dispute has been made particularly intractable by the sheer magnitude of the costs claimed by Ms Rooney, in absolute terms and compared to her agreed cost budget, the number of errors on the invoice and the extraordinary nature of some of the costs claimed.
“The invoice, drawn at 100 per cent of the claimed costs, amounts to £1,833,906.89.”
Carpenter said the bill was “drawn up without sufficient care” and had “a kitchen sink approach”, and included “more than £120,000 of costs to which Coleen was not entitled”.
He also said Coleen’s solicitor, David Sherborne, “charged a total fee over the course of the proceedings of £497,850”.
