Rebekah Vardy ran up massive costs in her ‘Wagatha Christie’ battle with Coleen Rooney because her legal team even worked on Christmas Day, a court has heard.
In the latest twist in the case, Mrs Rooney, 38, went to the High Court on Tuesday to challenge Mrs Vardy’s £325,000 costs for pre-trial hearings in December 2021 and February 2022.
Mrs Rooney’s legal team told the court the size of the bill Mrs Vardy ran up before the hearings was “wholly excessive and disproportionate”.
And it emerged that her solicitors and barristers were even working on Christmas, Boxing and New Year’s Days.
Mrs Vardy went on to lose her high-profile l...
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