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Joey Barton quits social media after agreeing to pay £75,000 in damages to Jeremy Vine in defamation case

Joey Barton has apologised to Jeremy Vine.

Joey Barton has agreed to pay Jeremy Vine £75,000 plus his legal fees and issued a grovelling apology for comments he made about the TV and radio presenter on social media. 

Last month, a High Court judge ruled that 11 of Barton’s comments about Vine on X (formerly Twitter) were defamatory. In the posts, Barton called Vine a ‘big bike nonce’ and a ‘pedo defender’. 

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