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Coleen Rooney poked fun at the Wagatha Christie saga in a new hilarious Paddy Power advert, starring alongside Danny Dyer and Gemma Collins.
The WAG, 39, became famous for her Wagatha Christie investigator skills when she turned detective to figure out who had been leaking stories about her to the press. This resulted in a court case against Rebekah Vardy, which Coleen won.
And in the new video for Paddy Power Gaming, EastEnders legend Danny tasked her with solving another mystery.
While walking through a casino, Danny spots pal Peter Crouch before Gemma is heard shouting her famous line, with a slight twist: ‘I’m claustrophobic Danny!’
Moments later Danny shouts: ‘Oi! Which melt has left their drink on my felt?’
Coleen then sends a text to Danny which reads, ‘It’s… Gemma Collins’.
Danny brands Coleen a ‘silent assassin’ before the camera turns to her playing a slot game, and she gives a cheeky wink.
The clip ends with Danny sitting shirtless in a bathtub playing on the gambling website, before dropping his mobile phone in the water, leaving him furious.
Rebekah unsuccessfully sued Coleen in the High Court in 2022 after she was publicly accused of leaking stories about her to the press.
She agreed to pay £1,190,000 of Coleen’s legal bill, plus was ordered to pay a further £212,266 in assessment costs, after sensationally losing their high-profile libel case.
This takes the total Rebekah must pay to at least £1,402,266.20. Daily Mail understands she has already paid some of the bill, including £800,000 four years ago and £100,000 last year.
The catalyst for the famous Wagatha Christie case was a dramatic open letter written by Coleen and posted on social media in October 2019 in which she revealed she had turned detective to figure out who had been leaking the stories.
Coleen publicly claimed Rebekah’s account was the source behind three newspaper stories featuring fake details she had posted on her private Instagram profile – her travelling to Mexico for a ‘gender selection’ procedure, her planning to return to TV and the basement flooding at her home.
Penning that she had a ‘suspicion’ of who it could be, Coleen told her millions of followers that ‘to try and prove this’ she ‘came up with an idea’.
‘I blocked everyone from viewing my Instagram stories except ONE account,’ she wrote.
For the next five months, she uploaded ‘a series of false stories’ to see if ‘they made their way’ into the press.
‘And you know what, they did!’ she penned ‘The story about gender selection in Mexico, the story about returning to TV and then the latest story about the basement flooding in my new house.’
She continued to build suspense, writing: ‘It’s been tough keeping it to myself and not making any comment at all, especially when the stories have been leaked, however I had to. Now I know for certain which account/individual it’s come from.
‘I have saved and screenshotted all the original stories which clearly show just one person had viewed them.’
And then, she delivered her final iconic line: ‘It’s………. Rebekah Vardy’s account.’
What followed was a tearful appearance from Rebekah on ITV’s Loose Women in February 2020 in which claimed the stress over the dispute had caused her to have anxiety attacks so severe she ‘ended up in hospital three times’.
The emotional display was met by Coleen with a statement to say she did not want to ‘engage in further public debate’ on the matter.
Four months later, in June 2020, Rebekah began legal proceedings against Coleen for libel with her lawyers alleging she had ‘suffered extreme distress, hurt, anxiety and embarrassment as a result of the publication of the post and the events which followed’.
At the first preliminary hearing in London’s High Court in November the same year, Mr Justice Warby ruled that Coleen’s famous letter ‘clearly identified’ Rebekah as being ‘guilty of the serious and consistent breach of trust’.
He concluded the ‘natural and ordinary’ meaning of the posts was that Rebekah had ‘regularly and frequently abused her status as a trusted follower of Mrs Rooney’s personal Instagram account’ by secretly informing the press of Coleen’s ‘private posts and stories’.
When the case returned to the courts in February 2022, a series of explosive messages between Rebekah and her agent Caroline Watt were revealed with Coleen’s lawyers alleging they were about her.
Rebekah denied that one message calling someone a ‘nasty b****’ was in reference to Coleen.
When asked by defence lawyers to present Ms Watt’s phone so they could further investigate the WhatsApp messages, they were told it had fallen into the North Sea when Ms Watt was on a boat during a holiday.
Coleen was denied permission to bring a High Court claim against Ms Watt for misuse of private information to be heard alongside the libel battle as it was brought too late.
Ms Watt was then dubbed not fit to give oral evidence, revoked permission for her witness statement to be used and withdrew her waiver which would have allowed journalists to say whether she was a source of the leaked stories.
Coleen’s barrister then told the High Court Rebekah ‘appears to accept’ her agent was the source of the leaked stories and argued her new statement suggested this but Rebekah claimed she ‘did not authorise or condone her’.
In May 2022, the women finally came face-to-face in court to give evidence as the Wagatha Christie trial began in the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
Coleen secured her victory the next month when Mrs Justice Steyn delivered her verdict, dismissing the claim made by Rebekah and finding Coleen had proved the meaning of her famous accusatory letter was ‘substantially true’.
Whilst Coleen said she was ‘pleased’ the judge had ruled in her favour, Rebekah declared she was ‘extremely sad and disappointed’ at the decision.
MailOnline has reached out to representatives for Coleen Rooney for comment.
