FIRST LOOK: Coleen Rooney looks solemn as she arrives in court in new snaps for her tell-all Disney+ documentary The Real Wagatha Story
Disney+ has shared a first look at Coleen Rooney in her hotly-anticipated tell-all documentary following her high-court victory.
The WAG, 37, was awarded £3million in her libel case against Rebekah Vardy and she is set to tell her side of the story of the trial in the upcoming Disney+ documentary.
Ahead of its release, the date of which is yet to be confirmed, Disney+ has released an array of first-look images showing Coleen arriving at a courthouse.
In the snaps, the wife of Wayne Rooney cut a smart figure in a black suit, made up of tailored trousers, a fitted top and a blazer with padded shoulders.
She looked solemn as she arrived in the courtroom and sat in the docks with her notepad in front of her, in what appeared to be a recreation of the case.
Solemn: Disney+ has shared a first look at Coleen Rooney in her hotly-anticipated tell-all documentary following her high-court victory
The tell-all documentary, titled Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story, will reveal how Coleen staged an elaborate sting operation to find out who was passing on stories about her to The Sun.
The three-part series, which is expected to be released in autumn, will look at how Coleen turned online sleuth before her famous post, which read: ‘It’s… Rebekah Vardy’s account.’
It will follow Coleen throughout the entire High Court trial, right up until the judge ruled in Coleen’s favour and declared that her post was ‘substantially true’.
As well as covering the high-profile case itself, the documentary will also look at Coleen’s life in the spotlight over the past 20 years, according to Disney+.
The series has been directed and produced by Lucy Bowden and has been made by Dorothy Street Pictures and Lorton Entertainment.
The documentary could have seen the two WAGs back in court, after Disney+ were unable to use the iconic phrase ‘Wagatha Christie’ in the title.
While Coleen was the one that was christened with the moniker by the public after her detective work, it was Rebekah who trademarked the phrase earlier this year.
However, Disney has got around the problem by titling the docuseries Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story.
Coleen’s famous tweet in October 2019 saw her reveal how she had limited the number of people who could see her stories until only one account could in a bid to discover who was leaking her posts.
Ahead of its release, the date of which is yet to be confirmed, Disney+ has released an array of first-look images showing Coleen arriving at court
Serious: She looked solemn in the snaps as she arrived in the courtroom and sat in the docks with her notepad in front of her, in what appeared to be a recreation of the case
She was dubbed ‘Wagatha Christie’ as her ‘It’s… Rebekah Vardy’s account’ post went viral, forcing the return of Rebekah, then pregnant with her fifth child, from a holiday in Dubai.
Rebekah denied she was responsible for the leaks and sued Coleen for libel, with the case eventually coming to court in May last year.
However she lost her claim when the judge ruled in July that Coleen’s post was ‘substantially true’.
Justice Steyn said that it was ‘likely’ that her agent at the time, Caroline Watt, ‘undertook the direct act’ of passing information to The Sun newspaper.
As well as the upcoming documentary, the trial has been turned into a stage show titled ‘Vardy V Rooney: The Wagatha Christie trial’ and a two-part Channel 4 drama.
Coleen finally broke her silence on the court case in a bombshell Vogue interview earlier this month, where she branded her nemesis as ‘odd’.
After maintaining a dignified silence, Coleen told in the candid interview how her fellow WAG Rebekah’s ‘evil’ texts read in court made her sick.
She told how she came up with the plot to foil the person who had been leaking stories, by planting false stories to her private account and only making them visible to Rebekah’s account but didn’t tell a soul what she was up to, not even a lawyer.
Coleen told Vogue: ‘I feel like a lot of people still don’t understand what happened, from beginning to end. But what I said in that post, I still stick by today.’
The WAG revealed that her plan to publicly share the leaker on Instagram in October 2019, was all her own.
She said: ‘In the night I started thinking about what I was going to do. I just wanted these stories to stop.’
Coleen said she didn’t tell a soul what she was about to do, and didn’t show her post to Wayne or her mother, nor, despite much conjecture, to a lawyer.
She felt empowered and relieved she’d kept her plans to go public under wraps, saying: ‘If I want to do sunnin’ – and I know I’ll get talked out of doing sunnin’ – I’ll just go ahead and do it. I didn’t want no one telling me not to do it.’
Coleen admitted that when Rebekah said she was consulting lawyers, she was spooked.
Case: The WAG (pictured with husband Wayne), 37, was awarded £3m in her libel case against Rebekah Vardy and she is set to tell her story of the trial in the upcoming Disney+ documentary
Candid: Coleen finally broke her silence on the court case in a bombshell Vogue interview earlier this month, where she branded her nemesis as ‘odd’
She hadn’t pre-legalled her statement and had assumed relaying what had happened to her was allowed.
Coleen was both anxious and fuming that she’d been ‘dragged to court’, saying: ‘I found it hard not letting on.
‘It was so weird that first day, actually sitting on a bench together. It was so difficult in that courtroom… especially watching her on the stand. It was quite painful. I felt uneasy.
‘Obviously she was going through it. ‘I thought, ‘Why have you put yourself in this position?’ It was not nice to watch. To this day she cannot for the life of her understand why Vardy took her to court. She is ‘odd’.’
After Coleen’s bombshell interview, Rebekah reignited the WAG war as she blasted her rival Coleen as ‘boring’ and ‘publicity-seeking’.
The WAG, 41, took to Instagram to share a stunning bikini snap and made a number of digs at Coleen, 37, in the comments section.
Rebekah did not shy away from hitting out at Coleen for her Vogue interview as she slammed her comments as ‘boring’.
Her fuming words came in response to a fan who commented: ‘I reckon vogue mag being a superstar n all that,’ in reference to Coleen’s interview.
Rebekah then replied: ‘Boring now isn’t it,’ with the fan then adding: ‘Desparate.’
The wife of Jamie Vardy then continued to rage as she slammed Coleen by writing: ‘Don’t give me publicity I’m private but please give me publicity.’
Doubling down, she went on: ‘What I don’t get why you would want to keep bringing it up. It’s boring now! The public doesn’t care and neither do I. She won that’s the end of it! Be happy move on… because I know I have x’
Another fan hit out at Rebekah as they said: ‘You dragged her through the courts to hang yourself so she has a right to tell her side tbh. You made the mistakes here, not her!’
Prompting her to protest her innocence as she argued back: ‘What a year later! Give me a break! And yes I did because I don’t do anything wrong! And I’ll take that to my grave! If I had done it believe me I would have flicked the middle finger and said yeah and what!’
Drama: After Coleen’s bombshell interview, Rebekah reignited the WAG war as she blasted her rival Coleen as ‘boring’ and ‘publicity-seeking’
‘Boring’: Taking to Instagram, Rebekah then made a number of digs at Coleen, 37, in the comments and accused her rival of seeking out ‘publicity’ with her bombshell Vogue interview
Arguing: She also became embroiled in a tense exchange with one Instagram user as she protested her innocence in a series of comments about being the ‘bad guy’
The Instagram user then replied: ‘You were found guilty though by the top suits and you can’t really preach innocence now can you? I know you’d rather it go away but she still has a right to tell her side and her experience of this ordeal too and people want to listen.’
But Rebekah went on: ‘I’ve preached innocence from day one and that won’t change! And are you telling me they don’t get things wrong… because I have a very long list that they fucked up! But it doesn’t suit the narrative! It’s fine I’m cool with being the bad guy! Maybe I’ll just start playing up to that now.’
She also hinted at the drama in her caption as she wrote: ‘take a chill [peace out emoji].’
Rebekah lost her libel case against Coleen in July 2022, was ordered to pay up to £1.5million towards Coleen’s legal fees after losing the case, but she still continues to insist she was not the culprit.
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