Wednesday 17th December 2025
Difficulty: Medium
The Wagatha Christie case (#1,125)
Questions by Nick Gough
Rebekah Vardy. Photo: Антон Зайцев (CC BY-SA 3.0)
"Wagatha Christie" is a popular name given to a dispute between the British media personalities Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney, which culminated in a 2022 libel case in the English High Court, Vardy v Rooney.
1. Who was the originator of the term "Wagatha Christe"?
2. When the judge asked for the mobile phones of Vardy and her agent Caroline Watt to be searched, Watt said she had accidentally dropped her phone into which body of water?
3. Having lost the case, Vardy had to pay her own legal costs as well as 90% of Rooney's. How much did the case cost her altogether?
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