Rebekah Vardy issues sassy statement hours after I'm A Celebrity line-up leaks

Rebekah Vardy has raised eyebrows with a sassy comment as she gets set to go toe-to-toe with Coleen Rooney again.

The war is far from over for the pair with Coleen set for a 'tell-all' appearance in the I'm A Celebrity jungle. While on Friday it was revealed that the pair are set for another court clash.

The wife of Leicester City star, Jamie Vardy, 42, is appealing the decision against a recent ruling on the Liverpudlian's legal costs as Coleen, 38, gets set for I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

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Lawyers for the two women returned to the High Court last month in a dispute over the legal costs claimed by Coleen, 90 per cent of which Rebekah had been ordered to pay in an earlier ruling in the epic Wagatha Christie trial. However, Senior Costs Judge Andrew Gordon-Saker found "on balance and, I have to say, only just" that Mrs Rooney's legal team had not committed wrongdoing.

Rebekah Vardy is appealing the decision against a recent ruling on Coleen Rooney's legal costs
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The WAG takes 'rumours as compliment', apparently
(Image: Instagram/ @beckyvardy)

Rebekah is now appealing the decision and took to Instagram with a cryptic comment as she finds herself hitting the headlines again. With some fans suggesting she should 'pay up and shut up' on X, formerly Twitter, the WAG's message read: "I take rumours as a compliment. The fact you're bringing my name onto tables I don't sit at shows your obsession. Stay bothered."

In 2019, the showbiz and sports worlds were left open-mouthed when the wife of former Manchester United striker, Wayne Rooney, accused Rebekah of leaking her private information to the press on social media. Rebekah sued the mum-of-four for libel, but Mrs Justice Steyn found in July 2022 that the allegation was 'substantially true'. The judge later ordered Rebekah to pay 90 per cent of Coleen's costs, including an initial payment of £800,000 (€950,000)

The hearing in September was told that Coleen's claimed legal bill - £1,833,906.89 - was more than three times her 'agreed costs budget of £540,779.07', which Jamie Carpenter KC, for Rebekah, said was 'disproportionate'.

He claimed that Coleen's legal team had committed misconduct by understating some of her costs so she could 'use the apparent difference in incurred costs thereby created to attack the other party's costs', which was 'knowingly misleading'.

Rebekah had demanded a 50 per cent reduction in the £1.8million settlement, as it was alleged that Coleen was charging for a lawyer's stay at the swanky five-star Nobu Hotel.

Her lawyers argued that Coleen's legal team's estimate of their costs for expenses, including the luxury hotel and minibar tab was deliberately misleading and that this warranted a reduction in the amount she had to pay.

However, while the judge accepted there was a "failure to be transparent", it was not "sufficiently unreasonable or improper" to constitute misconduct. In another blow for Rebekah, he ordered the former Jehovah's Witness to pay Coleen a further £100,000 ahead of the full amount owed being decided at a later date.

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