Rebekah Vardy broke her social media silence after her most recent court loss with a beaming selfie amid her lavish getaway to Dubai with husband Jamie on Friday.
The WAG, 42, has been ordered to pay Coleen Rooney another £100K in the latest twist in their ‘Wagatha Christie‘ libel battle – with a total settlement to be decided next year.
Despite the setback Rebekah flashed a huge grin as she posed alongside the footballer, 37, and revealed they were enjoying a rare trip without their five children.
The TV personality flaunted her long toned legs in a silk mini dress which she wore with a pair of towering white heels.
The couple, who wed in 2016, posed together in the mirrored lift before Rebekah showed off their swanky hotel and pool.
Rebekah Vardy, 42, broke her social media silence after her most recent court loss with a beaming selfie amid her lavish getaway to Dubai with husband Jamie , 37, on Thursday
Despite the setback Rebekah flashed a huge smile as she posed alongside the footballer and revealed they were enjoying a rare trip without their five children
The WAG has been ordered to pay Coleen Rooney (pictured earlier this month) another £100K in the latest twist in their ‘ Wagatha Christie ‘ libel battle – with a total settlement to be decided next year
Rebekah and Jamie are parents to Olivia, four, Finley, seven, and 10-year-old Sofia, as well as Megan, 19, and Taylor, 14, from the TV star’s previous relationship.
She is also a step-mum to Ella, 11 – the footballer’s daughter from a previous relationship with Emma Daggett.
The trip comes after barristers for the two ladies had been back in court in a dispute over legal costs after Rebekah lost her High Court claim against Coleen, who is married to ex-England captain Wayne Rooney, in 2022.
It followed Coleen accusing her fellow WAG of leaking private information about her to the Press, with today marking five years since the viral post at the centre of the row.
Rebekah was later instructed to pay 90 per cent of 38-year-old Coleen’s fees, with an initial payment of £800,000, but has been challenging the claimed £1.8million costs.
At the end of the latest hearing, which began on Monday, senior costs judge Andrew Gordon-Saker has now told Rebekah to pay an extra £100,000 within 21 days.
He said: ‘I think there is some scope for a further payment on account so the defendant (Mrs Rooney) is not kept out of her costs, and I think that should be no more than £100,000.’
The hearing, which neither woman attended, dealt with several preliminary issues before a full ‘line-by-line’ assessment of costs takes place at a later date, which will decide the overall amount of money to be paid.
The TV personality flaunted her long toned legs in a silk mini dress which she wore with a pair of towering white heels
The couple, who wed in 2016, posed together in the mirrored lift before Rebekah showed off their swanky hotel and pool
She also enjoyed stunning views of the sail like Jumeirah Burj Al Arab
Rebekah and Jamie are parents to Olivia, four, Finley, seven, and 10-year-old Sofia, as well as Megan, 19, and Taylor, 14, from the TV star’s previous relationship
Judge Gordon-Saker said this could take place in early 2025, but added: ‘The parties need to get on with this and put it behind them.’
He said: ‘Realistically, it (the line-by-line assessment) is probably going to be next year, hopefully early next year.’
In 2019, Coleen publicly claimed Rebekah’s account was the source behind three stories in the Sun newspaper featuring fake details she had posted on her private Instagram profile.
These covered her travelling to Mexico for a ‘gender selection’ procedure, plans to return to TV and the basement flooding at her home.
After the high-profile trial, Mrs Justice Steyn ruled in Coleen’s favour in July 2022, finding the post was ‘substantially true’.
The judge said that it was ‘likely’ that Rebekah’s agent Caroline Watt had passed information to the newspaper. and that the Leicester star’s wife ‘knew of and condoned this behaviour’.
At the latest hearing, Rebekah’s representative Jamie Carpenter KC said in written submissions that Coleen’s claimed legal bill ran to £1,833,906.89, which was more than three times her ‘agreed costs budget of £540,779.07’.
He said the bill was ‘drawn without sufficient care’ and had ‘a ‘kitchen sink’ approach’, and included ‘over £120,000 of costs to which Mrs Rooney has no entitlement’.
But Robin Dunne, for Coleen, said in his written submissions that Mrs Vardy had shown ‘deplorable conduct’ in the case and that costs could have been lower if ‘she conducted this litigation appropriately’.
At the end of the latest hearing, which began on Monday, senior costs judge Andrew Gordon-Saker has now told Rebekah (pictured in May 2022) to pay an extra £100,000 within 21 days
Coleen accused Rebekah in 2019 of sharing her private information from social media to the Press – an allegation which judge Mrs Justice Steyn later ruled was ‘substantially true’ (pictured in 2022)
Rebekah’s lawyers argued that the opposing legal team’s estimate of their costs for expenses including a luxury hotel and a hotly disputed minibar tab was deliberately misleading and that this warranted a reduction in the amount she had to pay (The Nobu Hotel pictured)
He added: ‘It sits ill in Mrs Vardy’s mouth to now claim that Mrs Rooney’s costs, a great deal of which were caused directly by her conduct, are unreasonable.’
Rebekah has been demanding a 50 per cent cut in the £1.8million settlement, as it was alleged that Coleen was charging for a lawyer’s stay at a five-star Nobu Hotel.
Rebekah’s lawyers argued that the opposing legal team’s estimate of their costs for expenses including a luxury hotel and a hotly disputed minibar tab was deliberately misleading and that this warranted a reduction in the amount she had to pay.
But this week saw Coleen score another win over her rival, as as a judge ruled the bill had been legitimately incurred.
Coleen’s barrister Mr Dunne insisted, ‘There has been no misconduct’, and that it was ‘illogical to say that we misled anyone’.
Her legal team denied claims their spending on the case was ‘extravagant’, and attacked reports surrounding one of her lawyers staying at the Nobu Hotel, an A-list celebrity favourite.
They told the High Court that the hotel stay had been falsely painted as a decadent ‘scene from Caligula’, but was secured for around the price of a room at a Premier Inn.