Coleen Rooney's lawyer tells the court that Rebekah Vardy's team made mention of the fact that she was always friendly and kind to Rooney.
They say that the fact that she preferred to keep her identity a secret will be important to their case. They deny that she was a wall flower and that she shied away from the press.
Coleen Rooney's team and her lawyer are talking about the alleged deletion of messages.
Many messages, including emails and WhatApp messages, have been deleted, and so are not able to be used as evidence.
Rooney says that the loss and destruction of evidence by Ms Watt has been "flagrant and beyond belief".
There are allegations of deletions and destructions, including WhatApp messages between Vardy and her agent, the breakdown of her laptop, and her mobile phone getting dropped in the North Sea.
They say that even Vardy's team was surprised by the losses.
Coleen Rooney is accompanied by her husband, Wayne Rooney, who is the manager of Derby County.
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Good morning! We are with you in the High Court, as the case of Rooney and Vardy begins.
Coleen Rooney is sitting next to her husband, Wayne Rooney, while Rebekah is more to the side of the court. Her husband is not in court.
For those of you who have never been to the Royal Courts of Justice, it is very grand.
The lawyer for Rebekah Vardy is talking to the court about some administrative issues, including the delivery of some files to the judge, which may have been stuck in the junk filter.
He says his client is here to clear her name as the allegations against her are false.
We spoke too soon.
There is no sign of her husband.
Wayne and Coleen Rooney were waiting at the Royal Courts of Justice, where photographers were waiting outside.
Coleen Rooney is wearing a boot on her foot.
We are still waiting to see pictures of Rebekah.
It has been more than two and a half years since the social media post by Coleen Rooney went viral.
The trial is scheduled to start at 10:30am. As the drama unfolded, here is a reminder of the key dates.
Coleen Rooney blocked all but one account from seeing the fake stories she posted on her personal account.
The stories she posted were about travelling to Mexico for a gender selection procedure, a planned return to TV, and the home of her basement flooding.
Rooney said that these were only visible to Vardy.
There was a story about Rooney in The Sun in 2019. Rooney is so desperate for her fifth baby to be a girl that she wants to hear more about a process in which doctors examine embryos, according to the article.
Rooney claims to have posted the first of her Sting operations on April 8.
She says she posted with the text on a photograph of an airplane seat to show what the gender selection is all about.
Her lawyers told the High Court that she claims the post was only seen by her husband.
Rooney posted a picture of himself with the text: "Up and out!!" on September 25, 2019. I'm going back to work. Maybe it's time for Australia.
Coleen Rooney is in talks to join Strictly next year as she looks to revive her TV career when Wayne returns to the UK, according to a Sun article.
Rooney shared false information about her basement being flooded. A story about the floodedMorrisons mansion was featured in The Sun six days later.
Her lawyers claim that the three posts were only visible to her husband.
During one preliminary hearing, Coleen Rooney's barrister said that there had been abusive messages exchanged between Rebekah Vardy and her agent.
The phone of Ms Watt fell into the North Sea after a boat she was on hit it, but Mr. Sherborne told the court that Rooney's lawyers wanted more information from the messages between Vardy and Ms Watt.
He said it was most unfortunate because it was only a short time after the court ordered that the phone be searched.
She has nothing to hide according to her lawyers.
Ms Watt was due to give evidence in the trial, but was recently found to be not fit to do so.
Hugh Tomlinson told the court that they don't know what the true position is in relation to Ms Watt. She is not communicating with anyone.
In written arguments, Mr Sherborne claimed that only half of the story can be investigated without Ms Watt.
He said that Ms Watt is scared of being tested because she knows that her evidence is false.
The complaint was "wholly misconceived", according to Mr Tomlinson.
The publisher of The Sun newspaper was asked for some documents by Mr. Sherborne.
A series of unfortunate events meant that the bid for information from the journalists was the last resort, according to him.
The bid for disclosure from The Sun journalists was described as a fishing expedition by the lawyer representing NGN.
Rooney was granted his request for the documents by the judge, but only in relation to the communications between Ms Watt and Andrew Halls.
Coleen Rooney's lawyer told the High Court that her PR representative could have been the source of the leaked stories.
Rooney's lawyers have previously claimed that she leaked information to The Sun either directly or through her friend and agent.
Here is our report on what Rooney's lawyer told the court.
Coleen Rooney is the wife of former Manchester United and England star Wayne Rooney.
They met in Croxteth when they were 12 years old and began a relationship when they were 16.
Jamie and Wayne have played for England.
They married in Italy in 2008 and have four sons together.
Jamie and Rebekah are married.
The couple got married in May of 2016 in the year that Leicester won the premier league.
Megan and Taylor are from previous relationships and are two of the five children that Vardy has. She is stepmother to Jamie's daughter.
The judge is Mrs Justice Steyn.
The part of the High Court which deals with defamation, personal injury and breach of contract claims is where she sits.
She has heard cases such as the libel claim against a journalist by Arron Banks and the FDA union's unsuccessful legal challenge over Boris Johnson's decision to support Priti Patel.
The daughter of a former Law Lord covered a number of cases as a barrister, including a case over the expansion of the airport.
The stakes are high in a celebrity libel case and both stars have enlisted the help of top lawyers.
The Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the media was launched in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.
Johnny Depp had his UK libel trial in 2020 represented by Coleen Rooney's barrister.
Diana, the late Princess of Wales, Michael Douglas, Kate Moss, Sir Paul McCartney, and David Furnish are just a few of the high-profile people represented by Mr. Sherborne.
The News of the World phone-hacking case was also involved in the litigation that sought the full disclosure of parliamentary expenses.
The Beckhams, Prince Charles, and Ryan Giggs are some of the high profile clients.
Hugh Tomlinson is outside the High Court.
Under English defamation law, the burden of proof is on Coleen Rooney to prove that her social media post in October was true.
Rooney accused Vardy of leaking false stories about her private life to The Sun newspaper.
Rooney said she had shared fake stories on her personal account about going to Mexico for a gender selection procedure, a return to TV, and her basement flooding.
Rooney said that he had saved all the original stories which showed only one person had seen them. Rebekah Vardy's account.
The preliminary hearings have not been attended by either of the players.
The case went to court in November 2020 after a judge found that Rooney was guilty of the serious and consistent breach of trust.
The element of suspense introduced by the multiple dots seems to me designed to raise expectations of a dramatic revelation, as Mr Justice Warby agreed at that time.
The trial is expected to last seven days.
Rebekah Vardy was pregnant when she initially responded.
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The social media post that started the case is here.
Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy attended the Euro 2016 tournament to support their husbands and the England team.
Rooney can be seen entertaining one of her children, with Vardy sitting behind her.
The crowd at the Euro 2016 game has pictures of Vardy and Rooney.
On 9 October, a modern-day whodunnit was thrust into the world, complete with warring celebrities, alleged betrayal, social media traction and perhaps the most famous ellipses of the last century.
Everything you need to know about the case is here.
Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the Rebekah Vardy v Coleen Rooney libel trial, which is set to start today at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
The case started with a social media post by Rooney in October, which revealed details of a months-long sting operation to find out who had been leaking false stories about her.
It is. Rooney was dubbed "Wagatha Christie" on social media after Rebekah Vardy's post went viral.
The wife of a former England player launched libel proceedings against her husband in June 2020. She strenuously denies leaking stories about Rooney.
Sky News is reporting live from the High Court as the trial begins.
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