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Ever since the WAGatha Christie scandal first erupted, there’s been a fantasy outcome in our minds. It never felt particularly plausible; we were really just trying to imagine the funniest possible end result. But weirdly, as various legal arguments have been tossed out by judges, our hypothetical outcome remains one of the last ones standing.
A judge has just refused Colleen Rooney’s bid to add Rebekah Vardy’s former agent to the proceedings. It’s significant because, as Rooney was clearly aware when she dropped her initial bombshell (the carefully worded “It’s……….. Rebekah Vardy’s account”), there has always been the possibility that someone other than Vardy had access to that account.
Of the messages revealed in court so far (the ones that didn’t fall to the bottom of the North Sea) it seems the former agent had access to all the same Instagram stories Rooney was convinced only Vardy could see. There could well be others too – but we’re unlikely to know for sure as the judge has ruled it’s too late to drag anyone else into it. The case is strictly Rooney v Vardy. Which keeps a vital possibility in play.
If it turns out that a third party had been accessing Vardy’s Instagram, it could end up that:
* Rooney leaked fake stories about herself to catch a rat, caught the wrong rat and now faces losing a multi-million pound trial because of it
* Vardy, in trying to prove her innocence, employs such scorched earth tactics that all sorts of other damning revelations come to light in evidence, shredding her reputation regardless of the verdict
* The mole at the heart of the entire beef simply rides out into the sunset without a scratch on their character… |
