Rebekah Vardy displays her toned figure in a bikini selfie

‘No excuses’: Rebekah Vardy displays her toned figure in a bikini selfie on holiday… as she faces forking out £4m over Wagatha Christie libel trial

She could be facing a whopping £4 million bill after losing her libel trial against Coleen Rooney. 

Yet Rebekah Vardy, 40, didn’t let any looming financial worries stop her heading off on holiday as she shared a striking bikini snap on Instagram on Tuesday. 

The mother-of-five looked incredible in a hot pink two piece as she posed for a sizzling mirror selfie while enjoying some time out at an undisclosed location. 

‘No excuses’: Rebekah Vardy displayed her toned figure in a bikini selfie as she shared snaps from her holiday on Instagram on Wednesday 

The bandeau bikini top and high waisted briefs put her toned stomach and long legs on display, while she went makeup-free to allow her natural beauty to shine through. 

While she may have been away from her home gym, that didn’t stop Rebekah from squeezing in a workout as she added a note reading ‘no equipment, no excuses.’ 

Rebekah was no doubt glad for a relaxing getaway as her reputation has been left in tatters after she scored one of the worst own goals in British legal history. 

After the Wagatha Christie libel drama ended in Coleen’s favour, it now falls to Rebekah and her footballer husband Jamie to foot the enormous bill.

While they asses their finances, the Rooney clan have been enjoying a holiday of their own, sharing snaps from their sunsoaked trip to Dubai.  

Fun in the sun: While they asses their finances, the Rooney clan have been enjoying a holiday of their own, sharing snaps from their sunsoaked trip to Dubai  

It’s thought that Rebekah will have to find £800,000 by November 15 and she’ll also have to pay her own eye-watering fees – which have been put at £2,017,860.

In addition to approximately £200,000 of additional trial costs this could bring the final total to around £3.7m – although some estimates suggest it could exceed £4m.

It comes at the hands of a High Court judge who dismissed her evidence as ‘evasive or implausible’ in one of the most closely followed cases in recent years.

She was accused of deliberately deleting WhatsApp messages central to the case as it was suggested her agent also intentionally dropped her phone in the North Sea. 

Accusation: Coleen posted on Instagram accusing Rebekah of leaking stories to The Sun newspaper following her own months-long ‘sting operation’

Rebekah and her Jamie were left with the bill after Mrs Justice Steyn ruled in favour of Coleen in a judgment that said swathes of her evidence given under oath had been ‘manifestly inconsistent’, ‘not credible’ and needed to be treated with ‘very considerable caution’.

She lost her high-profile libel claim against Coleen in July when Mrs Justice Steyn ruled that Coleen’s viral social media post accusing Rebekah of leaking her private information to the press was ‘substantially true’.

It followed a viral social media post where Coleen had revealed she had put false stories on her Instagram page. These fake tales then emerged in The Sun newspaper.

Win: Justice Steyn ruled that Coleen’s viral social media post accusing Vardy of leaking private information was ‘substantially true’

Because she had changed her settings so only one user could see it she felt confident to make the famous declaration ‘it’s….Rebekah Vardy’s account’.

In an order made public last week, the judge ruled that Rebekah should pay 90 percent of Coleen’s costs.

 Coleen incurred total costs of more than £2 million, but £350,000 of those had already been racked up before the trial in May, so those were removed to produce a final figure of £1,667,860. 

Such was the public interest in the case that it is being adapted into a West End play – with hearings to be staged ‘word for word’. 

There is also set to be a TV show, Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama, with the first images of the Channel 4 drama released last month.  

Wagatha Christie timeline: How Coleen and Rebekah’s war unfolded

September 2017 to October 2019 – The Sun runs a number of articles about Coleen, including that she travelled to Mexico to look into baby ‘gender selection’ treatment, her plan to revive her TV career and the flooding of her basement.

October 9, 2019 – Coleen uses social media to accuse Rebekah of selling stories from her private Instagram account to the tabloids. It prompts #WagathaChristie to start trending.

February 13, 2020 – In a tearful appearance on ITV’s Loose Women, Rebekah says the stress of the dispute caused her to have severe anxiety attacks and she ‘ended up in hospital three times’. 

June 23, 2020 – It emerges that Rebekah has launched libel proceedings against Coleen.

November 19-20, 2020 – The libel battle has its first High Court hearing in London. A judge rules that Coleen’s October 2019 post ‘clearly identified’ Rebekah as being ‘guilty of the serious and consistent breach of trust’.

Mr Justice Warby concludes that the ‘natural and ordinary’ meaning of the posts was that Rebekah had ‘regularly and frequently abused her status as a trusted follower of Coleen’s personal Instagram account by secretly informing The Sun of Coleen’s private posts and stories’.

February 8-9, 2022 – A series of explosive messages between Rebekah and her agent Caroline Watt – which Coleen’s lawyers allege were about her – are revealed at a preliminary court hearing.

Coleen’s lawyers seek further information from the WhatsApp messages, but the court is told that Ms Watt’s phone fell into the North Sea after a boat she was on hit a wave, before further information could be extracted from it.

February 14 – Coleen is refused permission to bring a High Court claim against Ms Watt for misuse of private information to be heard alongside the libel battle. A High Court judge, Mrs Justice Steyn, says the bid was brought too late and previous opportunities to make the claim had not been taken.

April 13 – Ms Watt is not fit to give oral evidence at the upcoming libel trial, the High Court is told as the case returns for another hearing.

May 10 onwards – The trial began

July 29 – Rebekah Vardy lost her defamation case against Coleen Rooney, the judge ruled Mrs Rooney’s accusation was ‘substantially true’.

Vardy was ordered to pay £800,000 of the costs bill by 4pm on November 15.

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