Danielle Lloyd is ‘furious’ after being dragged into the ‘Wagatha Christie’ court battle, MailOnline can reveal today – as Rebekah Vardy apologised in court documents for comparing Peter Andre’s manhood to a ‘chipolata’.
Mrs Vardy’s 59-page legal document says Ms Lloyd and fellow WAG Dawn Ward were both privy to information on Coleen Rooney’s private Instagram account.
But a source close to Danielle said she is ‘angry’ and ‘hurt’ that Rebekah, 38, identified her in legal papers submitted to the High Court yesterday – and is supporting her ‘friend’ Coleen in their libel row.
Her lawyer Tony Nelson told MailOnline: ‘Danielle does not want anything to do with this, she does not want to be dragged into the matter.
‘She’s got four young children and more important things to concentrate on. She’s not surprised that she’s been dragged into this but she doesn’t want to play any part in it. Danielle fully supports her friend Coleen.’
Coleen Rooney (pictured) sent a chilling message to Rebekah Vardy shortly before her infamous ‘Wagatha Christie’ post, saying ‘If you play games with me, I will play them harder’, according to new court documents
In another development today, Mrs Vardy addressed comments she made about Peter Andre’s manhood in an old interview.
Vardy, who is now married to Leicester footballer Jamie Vardy, made the unflattering comparison after a night with the pop star in 2004.
She said at the time: ‘I thought he was going to be a fantastic lover. Then he took his trousers off!
‘He was the worst lover I’ve ever had. It wasn’t even worth the train fare.
In another development today, Mrs Vardy addressed comments she made about Peter Andre’s (pic) manhood in an old interview
‘Peter was tiny. The smallest trouser equipment I’ve ever seen. It was like a miniature chipolata.’
A legal document filed to the court today claimed she had been ‘pressured’ into the remark and ‘has apologised’.
The document said: ‘It is admitted that the Claimant gave a ‘kiss and tell’ interview to The News of the World in 2004 when the Claimant was 22.
‘The Claimant regrets having given this interview and has apologised to Mr Andre.
‘The Claimant was in a difficult relationship with her ex-husband and felt pressurised by her ex-husband to give this story to the newspaper.’
Andre, 47, made a reference to the interview when it resurfaced online, posting a photo of a man standing by a sausage as tall as him, joking: ‘Now that’s a banger :)’
Mrs Vardy does not suggest that either Danielle, ex-wife of Spurs star Jamie O’Hara, and Dawn, 47, married to former footballer Ashley Ward, were behind the leaks, claiming she has no idea who it was and hinting the leak might lie closer to home with an associate of Coleen or her husband, former Manchester United and England captain Wayne Rooney.
Coleen also sent a Mrs Vardy a WhatsApp message when she fell pregnant, saying ‘congratulations on your brilliant news. Hope it all goes well for you x’, it was alleged.
Others who follow the account include glamour model Danielle Lloyd (pictured left), 36, and Real Housewives of Cheshire star Dawn Ward (pictured right), 47, the court paper says, though Ms Vardy does not in any way suggest that either were behind the leaks
Mrs Vardy arrived for her ‘Dancing on ice’ training session at the Nottingham National Ice Centre this morning in a tight Spiderwoman lycra outfit and hood much to the amusement of her skating partner Andy Buchanan
The Leicester City WAG’s lawyers claim this as ‘obvious’ proof that Coleen knew Rebekah was having a baby when she told millions of Instagram followers in October 2019 that she believed Rebekah was leaking stories about her to the press. This opened her up to ‘extreme abuse’, the legal papers say.
In the latest legal salvo in the pair’s High Court legal battle, Ms Vardy’s lawyers say that rather than the ‘months’ claimed by Ms Rooney, the sting operation took only five weeks and a day.
And they claim that Coleen failed to mention many other fake posts placed on her private Instagram account which did not lead to any stories in The Sun.
Rebekah claims that ‘third parties’ in the shape of assistants also enjoy access to the private Instagram account where Coleen left the fake posts as ‘bait’ in her cunning trap.
The 57-page document will do little to calm the raging storm between the two women as they attempt to settle their differences through mediation, as per Mr Justice Warby’s order, to try and avoid a full-blown libel trial.
According to the reply: ‘The Claimant [Vardy] will also rely on a post she recalls the defendant [Rooney] made on her private Instagram account shortly before the words complained of were published, which said words to the effect of ‘If you play games with me, I will play them harder’.
The dispute between Coleen and Rebekah, wife of former England star Jamie Vardy began in October 2019.
Coleen claimed fake stories she posted about herself and her family were leaked after only being seen by Vardy’s Instagram account.
In July, Rebekah filed a £1million lawsuit for defamation, saying she had been falsely accused.
Mrs Rooney wrote on Instagram and Twitter: ‘I have saved and screenshotted all the original stories which clearly show just one person has viewed them. It’s ……………. Rebekah Vardy’s account.’
But Rebekah’s reply, lodged at the High Court, even suggests the leak might lie closer to home with an associate of Coleen or her husband, former Manchester United and England Captain Wayne Rooney (the pair pictured together in 2017)
She categorically denies being the source of stories about the Rooneys, or being the mystery source of The Sun’s ‘Secret Wag’ column.
Coleen, 34, a mother of four boys, had written of how she set a trap to discovered who she thought had been leaking stories to The Sun.
She made up a series of bogus posts on her private Instagram account to see if their content appeared in the tabloid, and said she blocked out all her followers from seeing them — except Rebekah’s account.
The fake posts included stories about Coleen resuming her television career, going to Mexico for gender selection of a child, and a flood in the basement of her new home.
But Ms Vardy’s legal team say the private Instagram account was accessible to 367 others, including friends, journalists and gossip column writers.
Instead, the document says Ms Vardy does not know the identity of the person behind the leaks.
The document is also contemptuous of Ms Rooney’s supposed private eye skills, stating: ‘The so-called ‘careful investigation’ lasted for 5 weeks and 1 day, not the ‘5 months’ referred to in the Post.
‘The Defendant concealed from her followers the fact that she had posted a number of other ‘fake stories’ that did not appear in the press despite being posted in order to be viewed by the Claimant.
‘As a result, the Defendant created the false impression that every false post had resulted in a false story.
‘The Defendant did not investigate whether the ‘leaks’ of the Private Instagram Posts could be related to the numerous other ‘leaks’ of information about her and her husband which had appeared in the press in 2019.’
The 57-page document will do little to calm the raging storm between the two women (pictured: Rebekah Vardy is the wife of Leicester star Jamie Vardy) as they attempt to settle their differences through mediation, as per Mr Justice Warby’s order, to try and avoid a full-blown libel trial
The new legal paper claims that much of the granular detail set out in Coleen’s defence document about how she came to point the finger at Rebekah is actually her lawyers’ work.
Rebekah’s team state: ‘It is obvious that most of the contents of this paragraph [setting out the fake posts] are the product of subsequent investigations by the Defendant’s solicitors and did not form part of the Defendant’s decision to publish.
‘The Defendant has admitted through her Solicitors that, prior to publication, she had not carried out any investigation into whether other leaks had come from the Claimant.
‘The Defendant has not alleged that, prior to publication she carried out any investigation into whether the leaks could have come from her own ‘entourage’ or that of her husband.’
Mother-of-four boys Coleen, 34, had written of how she set a trap to discovered who she thought had been leaking stories to The Sun
Rebekah’s lawyers claim that as Rooney’s ‘J’accuse’ post came immediately after the flooded basement article was published, it must have been prepared in advance, adding: ‘The Claimant infers that the Defendant had already reached a (false) conclusion as to responsibility based on a flawed ‘investigation’ and rushed to publication without properly considering the evidence or making any further inquiry.’
They suggest Coleen released the post simultaneously on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook to create ‘maximum publicity’ and they suggest she had assistance from third parties and that various drafts were prepared in advance.
They add: ‘The Defendant has continued to publish the Post on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, despite the Claimant having made it clear that she had not leaked the Defendant’s information and that third parties had access to the Claimant’s Instagram account.
‘It is to be inferred that the Defendant carried out no further investigation following this statement by the Claimant.’
Rebekah repeatedly denied being the source of any of the stories Coleen has highlighted, and also denied being ‘close friends’ with The Sun’s showbiz editor Simon Boyle or any other Sun journalists.
She rejects the suggestion that she courted publicity from the paper, adding: ‘The Claimant has not received positive coverage in The Sun or The Sun on Sunday ‘as a result of’ providing information about the Defendant.
‘The press are independently interested in the Claimant and she is married to a famous footballer. She does not need to generate interest by trading the Defendant’s or others’ private information.’
She said that several stories about her in 2016 were linked with Jamie’s team Leicester City winning the Premiership that season.
She adds: ‘The retirement of the Claimant’s husband, Jamie Vardy, from the England team did not lead to any reduction in the Claimant’s public profile. She continued to be in demand and very busy.’
The paper also includes a rebuttal of claims that Ms Vardy ‘endorsed abuse’ she received over the Wagatha Christie post – and accuses Ms Rooney of ‘victim blaming’.
The document says Ms Vardy’s Twitter post ‘It’s ……Jamie Vardy #9’ and her ‘liking of similar posts were attempts to deflect and deal with the abuse she was receiving as a result of Ms Rooney’s post.
Rebekah Vardy (top) and Coleen Rooney watch England v Wales during Euro 2016 at Stade Bollaert-Delelis in Lens, France. Mrs Rooney, 34, accused Mrs Vardy, 38, of giving the press ‘false stories’ about her private life last October after carrying out a months-long ‘sting operation’ which saw her dubbed ‘Wagatha Christie’
The new High Court (pictured) paper claims that much of the granular detail set out in Coleen’s defence document about how she came to point the finger at Rebekah is actually her lawyers’ work