Coleen Rooney is weeks away from revealing the “real” story of her epic legal battle with Rebekah Vardy in a new TV series.
Coleen Rooney is weeks away from revealing the “real” story of her epic legal battle with Rebekah Vardy in a new TV series
Disney+ has confirmed it will be releasing the highly-anticipated documentary ‘Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story’ on Friday 18 October – with the streamer saying the show will give “exclusive access” to the wife of former footballer Wayne Rooney’s legal battle to prove her fellow WAG Rebekah Vardy leaked stories about her to the press.
Disney said about the upcoming three-part show: “The incredible story will be told through exclusive access to the woman at the heart of it all, Coleen Rooney finally speaks alongside interviews with her family, legal team and key players involved in the resulting trial.
“Uncovering one of the biggest tabloid news stories in Britain for the last decade, it reveals how Coleen turned amateur online sleuth to find an explanation for why private stories concerning herself and her family continued to appear in the media.
“It examines the circumstances that led to her infamous Instagram post that ‘broke the internet’ all the way to Coleen successfully defending herself in one of the UK’s highest-profile High Court defamation cases of recent years.
“As well as the case itself, it will explore how Coleen has had her life played out in public for the last 20 years. We know her as one of Britain’s most famous celebrities and wife of England’s record-scoring footballer Wayne Rooney.”
The real-life drama between Coleen and Rebekah, 41 – wife of footballer Jamie Vardy, 36 – first erupted in 2019.
Coleen said in a social media post she had carried out a months-long “sting operation” and fingered Rebekah as the person leaking “false stories” about her private life to the tabloids.
The WAG’s amateur detective work – which saw her dubbed Wagatha Christie in reference to crime writer Agatha Christie – prompted Rebekah to sue her for libel, with the case coming to a head in 2022 as the claim was heard at the High Court.
Rebekah lost the case, with the judge finding Coleen’s infamous “It’s ................ Rebekah Vardy’s account” Instagram post, which named her old friend as the source of the leaks, as “substantially true”.
The Disney+ documentary, directed by Lucy Bowden, will also explore how Coleen's life has played out in public for the last 20 years, as the childhood sweetheart and then wife of former England footballer Wayne, with whom she has four children.
‘Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story’ will be available on Hulu in the US, Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ in all other territories.
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