Rebekah Vardy has suggested agent may have leaked Coleen Rooney stories to Sun, court hears

Until now Rebekah Vardy has said she was not responsible for leaking the material and did not know who did. Photograph: Michael Zemanek/BPI/Rex/Shutterstock

Rebekah Vardy has suggested her agent may have leaked stories about Coleen Rooney to the Sun, the high court has heard, in a last-minute change of approach ahead of the “Wagatha Christie” libel trial.

The two women are locked in an expensive and increasingly messy libel battle over accusations Vardy passed information from Rooney’s private Instagram account to the tabloid.