‘Wagatha Christie’: from serious legal argument to pop-culture event
msn.com(Video by Evening Standard)If intrusive wall-to-wall coverage of the lives of footballer’s wives and girlfriends (so-called Wags) was a creation of tabloid newspapers in the 2000s, then the “Wagatha Christie” libel trial acted as a season finale for that particular era of celebrity culture.
The endless WhatsApp messages sent by Rebekah Vardy, – in which she discussed how she’d love to leak stories to newspapers, tipped off the Sun about the drink-driving arrest of a footballer and talked about relations with paparazzi photographers – came across as not only grubby but dated.
As the court heard about how Vardy collaborated with her agent Caroline Watt, it felt more like a historic account than an accurate depiction of current media world.
It was clear that the duo believed it was enormously beneficial to Vardy’s public profile for her to have a strong relationship with tabloid journalists.
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