Rebekah Vardy said she was "fuming" that someone had tipped off a newspaper about a story before her, texts between her and her agent read out in court have revealed.

       The story was that a teammate of her husband Jamie - Danny Drinkwater - had crashed his car.

       The High Court was told that Ms Watt informed Mrs Vardy that someone had already leaked information from a police station, to which Mrs Vardy responded “F--- someone already tipped it” and also messaged: “I’m fuming I didn’t give it to you earlier”.

       Mrs Vardy has denied ever leaking a story, but Mrs Rooney's legal team have spent the morning accusing her of giving private information to the newspapers, saying it was "standard practice".

       David Sherborne, for Mrs Rooney, also accused Mrs Vardy of "lying under oath" by saying conversations about leaking between her and her agent were never serious. Mrs Vardy denied this.

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       Ms Watt said Mrs Rooney was an “attention seeker” in a Whatsapp message to Mrs Vardy after viewing her posts through Mrs Vardy’s account, the High Court heard.

       Reading the message, Mr Sherborne said: “How much of an attention seeker is Coleen. No press of her post about gender selection so now she starts posting that she’s in Mexico in the hopes someone notices.”

       When the barrister suggested it was “clear” from the message that Ms Watt was in Mrs Vardy’s account, Mrs Vardy said: “That’s correct, yes.”

       Mrs Vardy has denied that her agent was monitoring Mrs Rooney’s private Instagram account.

       Mr Sherborne asked her: “It’s quite clear Ms Watt was monitoring Mrs Rooney’s private Instagram, through the use of your account, isn’t that right?”

       “No … she said she went on it at the weekend, that doesn’t mean she’s constantly monitoring,” she replied.

       Mrs Vardy said it was “undeniable” that her agent had seen something on Mrs Rooney’s Instagram account but said she had no knowledge of Ms Watt “monitoring” it.

       Mr Sherborne said: “You knew that she is looking through Mrs Rooney’s account to see what Mrs Rooney is putting up there … yes or no?”

       “Yes,” Mrs Vardy replied.

       She later added: “If she had been monitoring Mrs Rooney’s Instagram, I had no knowledge of her monitoring it and I didn’t ask her for that.”

       Mrs Vardy conceded in court that she had directed her agent to look at Mrs Rooney’s private Instagram in relation a post she made on a car crash.

       In a January 2019 exchange, Ms Watt asked her: “Am I imagining this or did you say yesterday that Coleen had crashed her Honda?” the court heard.

       “She defo has … Go in the Instagram,” Mrs Vardy replied, according to court documents.

       Mr Sherborne highlighted that on the first day of the trial Mrs Vardy had agreed it would have been “wrong” if Ms Watt was looking at people’s private Instagram accounts through the use of Mrs Vardy’s account.

       He put it to Mrs Vardy that, in this instance, she was directing her agent to Mrs Rooney’s Instagram.

       “Yes, I am,” Mrs Vardy said.

       In Mrs Vardy’s witness statement, she said: “I have sometimes been caught up in the heat of the moment during conversations with Caroline where I have talked about ‘leaks’ and payment, but these conversations were never serious, and Caroline would have understood that.

       “I have never been paid for private information about anybody apart from myself or my family.”

       Addressing this, Mr Sherborne asked Mrs Vardy whether she still stood by that evidence, to which she replied: “Yes, apart from the Danny Drinkwater one.”

       Mr Sherborne said: “So, there’s an exception.”

       The barrister later said: “When you say in that witness statement that those ‘conversations were never serious’, that’s completely untrue, isn’t it?”

       He later said: “You are prepared to lie under oath, aren’t you?”

       Both suggestions were denied by Mrs Vardy.

       Mrs Vardy has denied the suggestion she was “prepared to lie under oath”.

       The denial came as Mr Sherborne asked her about what he suggested were inconsistencies between her evidence in court and her witness statement, which he said stated conversations she had with her agent about leaking information were “never serious”.

       He said: “I put it to you that when you say in that witness statement that these conversations were never serious and Caroline would have understood that, that’s completely untrue isn’t it?”

       “No, it’s not,” she replied.

       He continued: “What this shows, Mrs Vardy, is that you are prepared to lie under oath.”

       She replied: “No.”

       Mrs Vardy said she was referring to model Danielle Lloyd, her Maldives honeymoon and miscarriage in another message exchange with her agent.

       Mr Sherborne said that in August 2019 Mrs Vardy told Ms Watt to “leak the Maldives stuff” in relation to what he labelled the “pregnant girl leak”.

       Mrs Vardy claimed that her message related to a screenshotted article in a magazine about Ms Lloyd “talking about her Maldives honeymoon and her unfortunate miscarriage”.

       She said Ms Lloyd was “not someone in my circle”, and said she disagreed with her about “gender selection”.

       Mrs Vardy had to be reminded that she was under oath whilst giving evidence, reports our Crime Correspondent Izzy Lyons.

       Mr Sherbourne, for Rooney, told her “you are under oath in a witness box in a court of law” as they were discussing whether she planned to leak a story about Danny Drinkwater to the Sun.

       Later, when discussing alleged leaks about Danielle Lloyd, Mr Sherbourne said: “You are just making this up, aren't you Mrs Vardy?”

       To which she responded: “I am absolutely not, no.”

       Mr Sherbourne continued: “What this shows Mrs Vardy is that you are prepared to lie under oath, aren't you?”

       “No I am really not,” Mrs Vardy replied.

       Mrs Vardy said in relation to her message exchange with Ms Watt about the Danny Drinkwater story that “it was something that wrongly I got involved with”.

       She said she apologised and that the “messages were not good”, adding it was about something that “affected me very badly in the past”.

       The court was told that Ms Watt informed Mrs Vardy that someone had already leaked information from a police station, to which Mrs Vardy responded “F--- someone already tipped it” and also messaged: “I’m fuming I didn’t give it to you earlier”.

       Mr Sherborne suggested Mrs Vardy was angry about “the fact that you’re not going to get your money”.

       “No, that’s not true,” she replied.

       She earlier told the court: “When I said I want paying for this, it’s a fleeting comment and something I probably considered at the time, but that was it.”

       Mr Sherborne asked Mrs Vardy why she was “fuming” about not giving information to Ms Watt earlier.

       “I don’t know,” she replied.

       Mrs Vardy told her agent she “wanted paying” for information about Danny Drinkwater leaving police custody after crashing his car, the High Court heard.

       Reading texts between her and her agent, Mr Sherborne said: “You say ‘he’s only just been let out of the cells last night’ and then said you wanted paying for this.

       “To which she said ‘which police station? They will need to confirm with the police station before they write it’.

       “The ‘they’ she’s referring to is The Sun, isn’t it?”

       Mrs Vardy confirmed “they” referred to The Sun, but, explaining the comment about being paid for information, she said: “It was a fleeting thought and one I didn’t consider any more then when I wrote it.”

       “It wasn’t a serious comment,” she added.

       Mrs Vardy labelled Mrs Rooney a “c---” after she was unfollowed by her on Instagram, the High Court was told.

       Mr Sherborne said it was Mrs Vardy’s agent Ms Watt who messaged her to inform her what had happened.

       “Oh my god, you say, I just saw, what a c---,” Mr Sherborne said, explaining that the exchange came after the alleged leak of information about Mrs Rooney being in a car crash from her private Instagram.

       Mrs Vardy said it was “not true” the car crash post had been leaked by Ms Watt to the Sun.

       Mr Sherborne said Ms Watt came up with a “lie” that her laptop had been left with “one of the girls” at her company.

       Mrs Vardy has denied the suggestion it was “standard practice” for her to leak private information to The Sun via her agent.

       While questioning her over an alleged leak of a story about a footballer, referred to in court only as Mr X, being unfaithful to his partner, Mr Sherborne said: “That was standard practice, wasn’t it, that you gave information to Ms Watt and she would give it to the Sun?”

       “No,” she replied.

       When asked if Sun reporter Andy Halls was a “good conduit” for information, she said: “No, that’s not the case. I never gave him information.”

       Mrs Vardy said she was “just joking” when she discussed with her agent leaking a story about a woman allegedly cheating on her husband.

       Mr Sherborne questioned her about what she said in reference to a story about a woman named only as Mrs F – a “well-known celebrity” – her estranged husband Mr H and Mr G, a “well-known footballer”.

       Mrs Vardy told her agent Caroline Watt that she should “leak the story about her s----ing G behind H’s back”,” Mr Sherborne said.

       Mrs Vardy said she was “a bit shocked and a bit disgusted about what I’d seen in the paper”.

       Mr Sherborne asked whether she was so annoyed that she had instructed Ms Watt to leak a story about Mrs F allegedly cheating.

       “That’s the way it reads,” she replied, adding: “Again, in context, bits of information mixed in with other bits of information. I was actually just joking about that one.”

       A take from our Crime Correspondent Izzy Lyons from the High Court.

       Mrs Vardy has denied an accusation her agent passed information to the Sun about fellow Leicester players’ reaction to Mr Mahrez missing training.

       When asked by Coleen Rooney’s barrister, David Sherborne, if her agent, Caroline Watt, had told the newspaper other players were “fuming” about the incident, she said: “That’s absolutely not true.”

       Mrs Vardy said she did not know whether or not her husband’s then team-mates were “fuming” about Mr Mahrez not turning up for training.

       “It was probably something I was plucking from thin air. It was just a gossip that was all,” she told the court.

       She also said: “It was a speculation of bits of information that I’ve heard and overheard, and also they had been in the press before.”

       The court heard that her agent asked if the “fuming” claim should be passed on to a Sky Sports reporter, but Mrs Vardy said he was not told.

       She added that her husband “never discussed whether the lads were fuming”.

       She admitted that the message exchange with her agent “doesn’t read very well”.

       Rebekah Vardy has told the High Court that she was “just gossiping” when messaging her agent about the failure of one of her husband’s then teammates to come to training in 2018.

       Coleen Rooney’s barrister David Sherborne read a message from Mrs Vardy to Caroline Watt about then Leicester City footballer Riyad Mahrez not coming to training, telling Ms Watt “the lads are fuming”.

       Mrs Vardy said: “It was speculation of just bits of information that I had heard and overheard, and also read in the press before.”

       She added: “Yes, it doesn’t look good there, I was gossiping about things that we already in the public domain. I was just gossiping.”

       And we're off.

       Mrs Vardy has re-entered the witness box to continue facing questions from Mrs Rooney’s barrister David Sherborne.

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