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Rebekah Vardy has denied orchestrating a photograph of footballers’ wives and girlfriends at the 2018 World Cup.
Mrs Vardy was giving evidence on the third day of her High Court libel trial against Coleen Rooney.
Mrs Rooney is being sued after claiming Mrs Vardy leaked private information she obtained on Instagram to the Sun.
On Thursday, Mrs Rooney’s barrister David Sherborne repeatedly suggested Mrs Vardy was lying about the extent of her relationship with the press.
Mr Sherborne pointed to text messages which suggested Mrs Vardy and her agent Caroline Watt colluded with the press to set up photographs.
He accused Mrs Vardy of secretly working with a paparazzi photographer to take a picture of her and her fellow “Wags” (a term to describe the wives and girlfriends of England footballers) at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
Mr Sherborne referred Mrs Vardy to messages she exchanged with her agent Caroline Watt at the time.
Ms Watt wrote that she had “got a photographer sorted for tomorrow”, to which Mrs Vardy replied “OK”.
In court, Mrs Vardy accepted she had helped arrange to be photographed as she left her hotel to go to dinner, saying she was “happy” to have her picture taken.
But Mrs Vardy denied orchestrating further photographs to be taken later that evening at a restaurant, when she was spending time with a group of the England team’s wives and girlfriends.
