Nottingham's Chanel Cresswell will star in Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama on Channel 4 this month, playing the role of Coleen Rooney. The film will detail Coleen's 2019 'sting' operation to find out who had been leaking stories from her private Instagram to The Sun, which turned out to be Rebekah Vardy's account.
Mrs Vardy then sued for Mrs Rooney for libel but lost the case, ending up having to pay Coleen up to £1.5million in legal fees - one of the most expensive libel cases to date. Cresswell will portray Mrs Rooney, the defendant, as tensions rise in the courtroom and stunning revelations come to light.
Though born in Nottinghamshire, Cresswell grew up in Codnor, Derbyshire, and attended Aldercar Community Language College. She was just 15 and at the Nottingham Television Workshop when she landed her first acting role as Kelly Jenkins in This Is England, for which she won a BAFTA.
