Drama | Legal
Station:
Channel 4 (GB)
Status:
Ended
Start:
2022-12-21
Rating:
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Dubbed the #WagathaChristie case when it first unfolded on social media in 2019, this drama-documentary will recreate the high court defamation case that followed. Using the real court transcripts verbatim, Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama will bring viewers all of the incredible and unbelievable moments from a case that was not allowed to be televised.
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S1E1 - Episode 1
Dramatic recreation of the sensational `Wagatha Christie" trial - one of the most extraordinary libel cases ever to be brought before the High Court as two `footballers' wives" came to blows, with Rebekah Vardy trying to sue Coleen Rooney for defamation. The origins of the dispute lay in a 2019 tweet in which Rooney publicly accused Vardy of selling stories to the press about her.
Air Date: 21 Dec 2022 15:00 (CDT)
S1E2 - Episode 2
Coleen's cross-examination begins, as Tomlinson throws doubt upon the legitimacy behind Coleen's claims that Rebekah leaked information about her to the press. Coleen rejects the notion that she revelled in celebratory social media memes after her post went viral, while the Wags' husbands Wayne and Jamie have a dispute to settle of their own.
Air Date: 22 Dec 2022 15:00 (CDT)