Rebekah Vardy’s texts to agent about Coleen Rooney are revealed in FULL in Wagatha Christie case 

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Rebekah Vardy is said to have described Coleen Rooney as a ‘stupid cow’ and a ‘c***’ in explosive texts to her agent as the messages were revealed in full in the latest twist in the infamous Wagatha Christie court battle.

Bombshell leaked WhatsApp conversations have seen Vardy, 39, and her agent Caroline Watt, accused of working together to leak negative stories about Ms Rooney, 35, to the press as the full scale of the war of the WAGS was revealed for the first time today.

The uncovered messages also seemingly pin the blame on Ms Vardy for a controversial picture of fellow England team WAGs outside a restaurant in St Petersburg, Russia during the 2018 World Cup that later appeared in The Sun.

The explosive texts were revealed in full after a technological error meant they weren’t redacted – in what Coleen’s legal team has described as a classic ‘smoking gun’ – as the pair’s High Court legal battle continues to ramp up.

In the messages, Rebekah, who is married to Leicester City striker Jamie, 35, is said to have viciously described Coleen as a ‘nasty b****’ and a ‘c***’, while Ms Watt brands the wife of former Manchester United star Wayne Rooney as ‘trash’ and ‘up her own ar**’.

In other exchanges, the duo discuss how they plan to react after mother-of-four Coleen unfollowed Ms Vardy on Instagram – which her lawyers say was the source of the leaks. Rebekah allegedly wrote of their social media war: ‘Stupid cow deserves everything she gets! Hope she gets sold out massively now.’ 

The unredacted incendiary messages sent between Ms Vardy and Ms Watt were forwarded to Coleen’s lawyers at their offices in Manchester at the end of 2021. 

Within the exchanges, which began in February 2019, Rebekah twice calls Coleen a ‘c***’ after she realises she was unfollowed on Instagram on February 6. 

Mrs Vardy later warns: ‘Not having her bad mouth me to anyone…if she’s doing that my god she will be sorry.’ 

A month earlier she had texted Miss Watt and is said to have described Coleen as a ‘nasty b****… I’ve taken a big dislike to her! She thinks she’s amazing…Would love to leak those stories.’

Mrs Vardy’s lawyers have since said she was referring to someone else in the text messages. 

The pair are even said to have discussed a cover-up story that would have blamed ‘one of the girls in the office’ if further evidence arose that squarely pinned Ms Watt and Ms Vardy as being behind the leaks. 

In a message sent on February 6, 2019, Ms Watt writes: ‘If she [Coleen] does try to say it or that it was me and it’s undeniably obvious what we’ll do is say I left the company I was working for in Jan and one of the girls in the office has my old laptop that had your passwords saved on it so will have been them and now you will have to change everything.’

Meanwhile, the exchanges also shine a new light on the controversial picture of fellow England team WAGs outside a restaurant in St Petersburg, Russia during the 2018 World Cup that later appeared in The Sun. 

Vardy had been pictured out on a restaurant trip with Millie Savage, Gemma Acton, Megan Davison, Annabel Peyton, Fern Hawkins, Shannon Horlock, Annie Kilner and Lucia Loi two days before England’s first-round matchup against Belgium. 

Leaked Whatsapp texts revealed Vardy had messaged her agent, Caroline Watt, in the minutes before the encounter: ‘We may have to walk to the restaurant from hotel now… so might be a good pic of us walking down it’s about 10/15 mins away.’

Two hours later, Vardy messages Watt again: ‘On way down in the restaurant car… He’s doing two runs… If he’s hiding here he is hiding in bushes or behind trees lol.’  

Rebekah had previously denied responsibility for the papped-up picture of her and the fellow WAGs at the tournament.

The pair are preparing for their brutal libel battle since Coleen sensationally accused Rebekah of leaking stories in the now infamous Wagatha Christie post in October 2019. 

After one story from Rooney’s private Instagram appeared in the Sun, Ms Rooney told her followers: ‘Someone on here is selling stories again to this scum of a paper. It’s sad to think someone who I have accepted to follow me is betraying [me] for either money or to keep a relationship with the press.’

Discussing this post, Ms Watt is said to have acknowledged a role in providing information to the newspaper, according to messages disclosed to the court, writing: ‘Such a victim. Poor Coleen … And it wasn’t someone she trusted. It was me.’

The pair are said to have then discussed concerns that Ms Rooney increasingly suspected Ms Vardy of leaking to the media and had unfollowed her on Instagram. 

Ms Watt allegedly suggested that if any issues were raised they would claim ‘one of the girls in the office has my old laptop that had your passwords saved on it, so it will have been them’.

Ms Rooney’s lawyers claimed that Ms Watt has not provided the mobile phone she used at the time for examination, insisting that she dropped it in the North Sea while on a family holiday just days after being ordered to hand it over by a High Court judge. 

In another message between the two, it was claimed, Ms Vardy declared ‘It’s war’ after Ms Rooney publicly named her as the source of the leaks in October 2019.

During another exchange after Ms Rooney had been involved in a car crash and posted about it on Instagram, it is claimed Ms Vardy wrote in a WhatsApp message to Ms Watt: ‘She’s a nasty b***h x’ and added: ‘Would love to leak those stories.’

Ms Watt replied: ‘I would have tried to have done a story on Coleen but the evidence has been deleted x,’ with Ms Vardy then passing on details about the post to her. 

The court heard that the two women then discussed leaking the story to The Sun with Ms Watt writing to Ms Vardy a few days later that a journalist from the newspaper is ‘trying to do a story on Coleen crashing her car but her PR won’t even reply. I’ve told him I’m 100% confident that it happened but don’t know how’.

‘She deffo did,’ Ms Vardy responded. 

An article then appeared on January 25, 2019 about Ms Rooney being involved in a car crash, prompting her to take to Twitter where she fumed that ‘someone on my private Instagram…. is telling or selling stories to a certain newspaper.’

She added: ‘It’s sad to think someone who I have accepted to follow me is betraying me either for money or to keep a relationship with the press.’

In a subsequent WhatsApp exchange, the court heard, Ms Vardy messaged Ms Watt, saying: ‘U seen Coleen’s Twitter.’

Ms Watt replied: ‘Such a victim. Poor Coleen…. And it wasn’t someone she trusted. It was me.’

A few days later the two women discussed via WhatsApp a picture posted by Ms Rooney in her car which appeared to show one of her children not wearing a seatbelt.

Ms Watt warned her that because it was on Ms Rooney’s private Instagram, ‘we can’t do anything with it.’ She added: ‘She has taken it down now too.’

Ms Vardy fumed: ‘She’s such a d*** x.’

Another exchange, the court heard, showed Ms Vardy complaining how Ms Rooney ‘thinks it’s me that’s been doing stories on her’. 

‘I know x’, Ms Watt replied. 

‘That c*** needs to get over herself! X,’ wrote Ms Vardy, before adding: ‘Someone on her Instagram regularly sells stories on her though x.’ 

Ms Watt said: ‘Because she is private she can remove you as a follower and it stops you from seeing her page x.’ 

‘What a joke! All I’ve ever been is nice to her though! Even when Wayne was being a c*** x,’ Ms Vardy said. 

David Sherbourne QC, representing Ms Rooney, read out transcripts of other messages in which Ms Vardy is said to abuse her.

In one, which the court heard was sent to Ms Watt after she discovered that Ms Rooney had unfollowed her, Ms Vardy wrote: ‘Omg… I just saw wow… what a c**t… I’m going to message her.’ 

After being advised by Ms Watt not to contact Ms Rooney immediately, Ms Vardy replied: ‘That c*** needs to get over herself. That’s falling out material.’

It is claimed the two women then discussed the ramifications of what would happen if Ms Rooney finds out for definite that she was involved in leaking stories about her and that the story on the car crash came from Ms Watt.

Ms Watt replied: ‘I don’t think anyone would. The [journalist] never would and I wouldn’t tell anyone but The Sun and you would think she’d message you if someone said your agent had done that surely.’

A message exchange between the two women from October 2019, following Ms Rooney’s post claiming Ms Vardy was responsible for leaking stories about her shows them discussing how they can explain the leaks.

Ms Watt tells Ms Vardy that if she ‘tries to say it was me’ she would claim that she had ‘left the company’ and that could blame an employee with access to her old laptop. Mr Sherbourne described this in court as the ‘fake user claim.’

Ms Vardy replies in a message: ‘Ok! Just don’t know how she ever would know that unless [the Sun journalist] has leaked it.’ 

Other WhatsApp messages between Ms Vardy and Ms Watt show them discussing a post from Ms Rooney in April 2019, in which she hinted that she was travelling to Mexico for gender selection.

It later emerged that this was a deliberately false post as part of her attempts to uncover who was behind the leaks.

Ms Rooney’s lawyers are also requesting that Ms Watt be added as an additional party to their claim that her private information was misused by Ms Vardy.

In a court document, Ms Rooney’s lawyers insisted that only excerpts of communication between Ms Vardy and Ms Watt have been provided, many of them heavily redacted and say that there has been a deliberate attempt not to hand everything. 

Ms Rooney’s lawyers maintain that seeing the redacted messages was a coincidence after they used an IT programme to read evidence they had been sent which exposed them. 

But they argued that from what they have received so far, it proves their case but now all of the evidence must be handed over for the matter to be decided fairly.

Ms Rooney’s lawyers claimed that Ms Watt has not provided the mobile phone she used at the time for examination, insisting that she dropped it in the North Sea while on a family holiday just days after being ordered to hand it over by a High Court judge.

Ms Vardy has also insisted that all WhatsApp audio and images exchanged with Ms Watt were ‘accidentally lost’ not just from her phone but all backups as she was attempting to send them to her solicitors.

Ms Rooney’s lawyers are also demanding all communication between Ms Vardy and Ms Watt and a number of journalists at The Sun as well as full disclosure of any payments made to them by the newspaper.

At the same time, Ms Vardy’s legal team are also demanding full disclosure of communication between Ms Rooney and football agent Paul Stretford plus a number of other people who they maintain were involved in assisting or advising her over the ‘sting operation.’

The document submitted by Ms Rooney’s lawyers said: ‘From the outset, Mrs Vardy has always claimed that neither she nor Ms Watt were involved in the leaking of private information from Mrs Rooney’s Instagram account. The recent disclosure has shown that this is emphatically not the case.’

The feud between the two women erupted after Ms Rooney publicly claimed her fellow footballer’s wife shared fake stories she had posted on her personal Instagram with the paper.

She declared that she eventually narrowed down who could see them until they were only accessible to Ms Vardy, who denied the allegations and started libel proceedings against her.

A full trial is scheduled for May and is expected to cost both women a combined £1 million in legal fees.

Ms Rooney’s lawyers maintain that seeing the redacted messages was a coincidence after they used an IT programme to read evidence they had been sent which exposed them.  

Demanding that all communication evidence be handed over to them, Ms Rooney’s lawyers argued: ‘They plainly demonstrate that (a) Ms Watt was regularly accessing and monitoring Mrs Rooney’s Private Instagram Account using Mrs Vardy’s Private Instagram Account for the purpose, and Mrs Vardy was well aware and approved of this; (b) Mrs Vardy had a habitual pattern of leaking private information (about Mrs Rooney).’

The messages uncovered by Ms Rooney’s legal team were also said to challenge earlier denials by Ms Vardy that she did not help to orchestrate a picture of the two and other WAGS outside a St Petersburg restaurant during the 2018 World Cup that appeared in The Sun.

The court heard a message exchange between Ms Vardy and Ms Watt shows them coordinating the photo without the rest of the group being aware of it.

Ms Rooney’s legal team also claimed in court documents that full disclosure of evidence will also prove that Ms Vardy was the author of The Sun’s Secret Wag column and was also behind the leaking of sensitive information about one high profile England footballer who it was alleged in the newspaper article, had a secret love child.

This is not the first war of words between the pair. In 2019, Ms Vardy gave a blistering interview to the Daily Mail in which she said arguing with Ms Rooney was ‘as pointless as arguing with a pigeon’. 

She also revealed the contents of their phone call just moments after Ms Rooney suggested she had been responsible for leaking stories. 

Recalling the conversation, she said: ‘I said to her: ‘Coleen, what on earth have you done?”

‘It was not an easy phone call. She said to me: ‘I’m not pointing the finger’ and I said: ‘You have just annihilated me in public and hung me out to dry. The whole world hates me!’

‘I thought she was my friend but she completely annihilated me. She said: ‘You know, I always really liked you, which makes it harder.”

Asked if she argued with Ms Rooney, Ms Vardy replied: ‘That would be like arguing with a pigeon. You can tell it that you are right and it is wrong, but it’s still going to s*** in your hair.’ 

The hearing continues.