Rebekah Vardy Coleen Rooney / Yui Mok/PA Wire
(Picture: Yui Mok/PA Wire)FANS of the Wagatha Christie saga rejoice: Coleen Rooney’s lawyers have put out a podcast about her libel trial against Rebekah Vardy.
Solicitors Paul Lunt and Jamie Hurworth of Brabners LLP have released two episodes of Rooney v Vardy: The Breakdown, calling it a “detective story”.
They explain that reports that they would lose meant “It was like starting a race when your opponent has been allowed to start 60 seconds before you.” They describe the “adrenaline rush” of the tide turning due to telling WhatsApps.
In 2019, Rooney, left, accused Vardy, below, of selling stories about her to the media. Vardy then sued her for libel, but lost.
Keen lawyer Lunt had to pull himself away from a twist in the case to go to his brother’s wedding. “It’s been keeping me awake at night” he texted his colleague giddily. “These are the days when you love your job”.
Michael Sheen, who will play Rooney’s barrister in the TV show, should be listening.
Keep calm and carry on in Parliament
IT’S BEEN a busy summer in Westminster, so it’s no surprise that politicos are being encouraged to find a moment of calm with a spot of mindfulness.
In Parliament’s Portcullis House yesterday, The Londoner saw an advertisement on tables: “Working Mind six-week Mindfulness course” for MPs and Lords, which runs online and starts today. Perhaps one for Liz Truss to try to help with her woes.
Vogue is ‘common now’, says Nicky Haslam
Interior designer Nicky Haslam has made another guide to what is “common” on a drying-up cloth (not a “tea towel”). On this one, Haslam takes aim at his former employer Vogue (“it’s not chic anymore”), Ed Sheeran and Bond Street. Haslam tells us he does like the Elizabeth line station, which he hopes to visit soon, just not the “second rate galleries”. Prices start at £38 each.
Don’t forget I’m Irish, says Sally
HER novels are a staple of the Tube but don’t expect a London novel from Sally Rooney. The Normal People author said this week in a T.S. Eliot lecture: “I don’t think I could write a piece of fiction that was not populated by Irish characters and set in Ireland”. She said some readers may not realise how “indelibly Irish” her books are.
Out in Holborn and the Shard
Musician Eve, and Emma Weymouth, Marchioness of Bath, brought some glamour to Holborn’s Sir John Soane’s Museum last night, at a dinner for fashion brand Carolina Herrera. Also there were actor Lady Sophie Winkleman and singer Celeste. Up the Shard, Wedding Edition magazine’s Alessandra Frame and actor Nell Hudson sipped Perrier-Jouët champagne at a party for Sky Diamond jewellery.
