London – Some of the cases have garnered press and social media attention in the UK, leading up to a famous beef that has become one of the most followed trials in the country, which ended last week.
The parties who faced each other in court married two English football stars. Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney became childhood friends after one accused the other of leaking personal information obtained from their Instagram account to tabloid The Sun.
The accuser lost the action, but everyone got burned in a series that resembled a movie plot.
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Coleen is married to Manchester United star Wayne Rooney. The connection between the two in Italy’s state-of-the-art Portofino was “sold” right! for £2.5 million.
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Rebecca wife of Jamie Vardy of Leicester. The athletes belong to the England football team and the two have appeared together at events and stadiums.
By 2019, Coleen had noticed that posts on her closed Instagram account were frequently appearing in The Sun newspaper.
In a spying operation, he recorded three false information and adjusted the settings so that only the “friend” who fell into the trap could see it. All three stories appeared in the Sun.
Even one of them is funny, a leak in the basement of the house. But to the tabloids, any sigh of relief from a celebrity not in public is worth a dime.
Because of the intrigue, the beef came to be known as “Vagata Christi,” which refers to the mysterious writer and revelation. wobble (internal Wives and girlfriends), coined by tabloids to refer to fellow players.
How celebrities and ordinary people deal with the media
This is where the difference starts in dealing with such a situation, if it had happened to a “normal” person, it would not have had the same effect.
In October 2019, Colin Rooney tweeted about the spy storyline and its conclusion.
He didn’t directly accuse the former friend, but the only account that saw the posts was… Rebecca Vardy, who was eight months pregnant at the time.
For those who don’t want to stay alive, this is a questionable move. She could have ended the friendship wisely, and the story wouldn’t have turned out to be as stupid as it did, because even if she won the case, it suffered.
The media also did not let the case go cold. On social media, each new auction was shared and commented on like a soap opera. And was. Many intimacies emerged.
But the worst was yet to come. Had the case stopped there, it would have gone cold and few people would remember the story today. However, to the surprise of many, he decided to sue the accused for defamation.
Anyone working with crisis management should have already assessed the risk of opening such a process. Even if won, bleeding is ineffective.
In Vardy’s case, there was evidence that he had leaked either directly or through an agent and friend, Caroline Watt, who was unlikely to have done so without his consent.
The fallout was fraught with accusations of treason and destruction of evidence. A phone would have been thrown into the sea to avoid being handed over to the authorities. Three years of bad publicity.
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To prove the friendship wasn’t sincere, the defense found a WhatsApp message in which Vardy referred to Colin as a “bad bitch”. Pure elegance.
A week ago, the author was defeated, coming out £3 million poorer from his audacity.
To Judge Karen Stein, Rooney proved that the substance of the case was “substantially true”.
And Vardy’s claims were deemed “incoherent, evasive or implausible”. One of them was that an account suggested by people close to him was hacked.
Is it worth suing?
Before and after the verdict, one of the most debated aspects was why Rebecca Vardy faced a legal battle with little chance of success.
More than lost money, she became a bad example and was abandoned by friends. Who wants to be friends with a blind person?
And for those who inhabit the world of celebrities like Vardy, the beef can be expensive, losing calls or associations with brands.
The story, which is being made into a movie, is raising a lot of issues on social media and even in private groups.
Anyone who dares to divulge everything that happens in their lives is a leaker, either on purpose – in this case – or accidental.
Amid the chaos, The Sun was least affected. Like other newspapers, it has lived off leaks since long before social media existed. It wouldn’t have been the first time he had paid for the news as suggested.
But networks can make the job a little easier and add to the craziness surrounding the fame and influence game. In Wakata Christie’s case, a game with no winners seems to have gone into overtime.
In newspapers and social networks, developments and speculations continue, mainly around compensation.
Not even Agatha Christie would have invented such a conspiracy.
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