Wagatha Christie row heats up as Coleen Rooney slams Rebekah Vardy court bill claims

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Coleen Rooney has slammed Rebekah Vardy after it was alleged she was 'furious' over court costs. The wife of Jamie Vardy was forced to pay 90% of Coleen's legal bills after she lost her libel trial at the High Court in 2022.At the time.

the amount was assessed to be around £500,000. However, Vardy has now claimed that it has skyrocketed by more than 300%.She is said to be fuming at the bill, which reportedly includes a £2,000 stay for one of Coleen's lawyers at a five-star hotel.The WAG received the bill in April, with the total sum reportedly reaching £1.8million.Lawyers representing Coleen have counteracted and said the costs would always be "inevitably substantially greater than any earlier ‘budgeted’ figures.""The court announced that Mrs Vardy had lost the case in July 2022.

From that point, Mrs Vardy ought to have been aware that she would be required to pay at least a substantial proportion of Mrs Rooney’s fees," a statement released on behalf of Rooney said.The court ordered Vardy to pay Rooney £800,000.

However, the payment was not made.According to Rooney's lawyer: "Mrs Vardy advised that she would need more time to raise that amount of money".It was added that Rooney allowed Vardy a longer period of time to gather the money, when she could have chosen to instruct bailiffs or even pursued bankruptcy proceedings against her.Speaking on behalf of Mrs Rooney, Paul Lunt, head of litigation at law firm Brabners, said: "Costs budgets are produced at the very start of these cases, almost two years before the final decision in this case.