Following the headline-grabbing Wagatha Christie trial, it wasn’t lengthy earlier than a TV drama primarily based on the story was introduced.
Now, the celebs who will play Coleen Rooney, Rebekah Vardy and their attorneys in a two-part movie Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama, which is predicated on transcripts from the notorious libel listening to, have been revealed.
The Channel 4 drama guarantees to point out “all of the incredible and unbelievable moments from a case that kept the public and media gripped”.
BAFTA-winning actress Chanel Cresswell, finest identified for her position within the This Is England sequence, will play Rooney, whereas Harry Potter and Game Of Thrones star Natalia Tena is ready to painting Vardy.
There may even be a star flip from Michael Sheen – identified for his portrayals of real-life figures resembling Sir Tony Blair and broadcaster David Frost – who will seem as Rooney’s charismatic barrister David Sherborne.
Mr Sherborne represented Johnny Depp within the actor’s 2020 libel declare in opposition to the writer of the Sun, News Group Newspapers (NGN), and in addition contains Diana, Princess of Wales, Hollywood actor Michael Douglas and mannequin Kate Moss amongst his earlier shoppers.
Vardy’s barrister Hugh Tomlinson – whose earlier shoppers embody the King, easyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou and oligarch Roman Abramovich – will likely be portrayed by Simon Coury, finest identified for showing in The Professor And The Madman.
Husbands Wayne Rooney and Jamie Vardy will likely be performed by Dion Lloyd and Marci Nagyszokolyai respectively.
Dubbed the Wagatha Christie case when it first got here to public consideration in 2019, the drama unfolded when Rooney mentioned in a social media submit that she had carried out a months-long “sting operation” – and accused Vardy of leaking “false stories” about her non-public life to the tabloids.
‘Their each transfer within the courtroom was dissected’
Vardy sued Rooney for libel, and the case got here to a head earlier in 2022 because the declare was heard on the High Court.
Vardy, 40, misplaced the case in opposition to 36-year-old Rooney, with the choose discovering Rooney’s submit “substantially true”.
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Channel 4’s two-parter will recreate the “high drama, high stakes High Court defamation case… a case that had a huge impact on the lives of the two women at its heart and catapulted the two sparring legal teams into the spotlight, where much like Rooney and Vardy, their every move in the courtroom was dissected and scrutinised in the press”.
The present will air later this 12 months.
In August, Disney+ additionally confirmed it was making a three-part documentary sequence concerning the court docket battle, with “exclusive access” to Rooney.
Source: information.sky.com”