It’s now five years to the day that Colleen Rooney announced on social media that she had identified who had been leaking her private Instagram stories to the press, with the now infamous words “It’s… Rebekah Vardy’s account”. Here’s a reminder:

Five years on, I didn’t realise these two were still going at it in the courts, but apparently Rebekah Vardy has been fighting to cut costs of her ‘Wagatha Christie’ libel case defeat.

Initially when the Colleen’s posts exposing Rebekah Vardy went viral, Vardy sued her for libel but lost, with the judge ruling that she must pay £1.62 million (!) – 90 per cent of Rooney’s £1.8 million costs.

Lawyers for both parties have now returned to the High Court as Vardy tries to reduce the “extravagant” bill, which included a £2,000 stay at the five-star Nobu Hotel for Rooney’s lead solicitor, which is kinda taking the p1ss to be fair.

In the end, Andrew Gordon-Saker, the senior costs judge, ruled that Rebekah Vardy must make a new payment of £100,000 within 21 days. Vardy has already handed over £800,000, as directed by the original trial judge, paid in three instalments.

There was a small victory for Vardy though, as her lawyers succeeded in reducing the total costs bill from £1.8 million to £1.725 million by arguing that the hourly rates charged by some of Mrs Rooney’s lawyers were too high. One of them charged £635 an hour (!), but rhe judge ordered that Vardy should pay £500.

This reduced the potential amount that Vardy must pay from £1.62 million to £1.52 million.

Vardy’s lawyers are considering an appeal against the judge’s ruling that Rooney’s team had not knowingly understated her costs in the run-up to the trial. Rooney’s £1.8 million bill was three times the original budget.

They also requested a more detailed breakdown of the work done by forensic experts employed b Rooney’s team to investigate the disappearance of WhatsApp messages between Vardy and Caroline Watt, her former agent. After being ordered to hand over the messages, Vardy deleted hers and Watt threw her phone off the side of a boat into the North Sea, which is is pretty hilarious.

Drawing this latest part of the proceedings to a close, Judge Gordon-Saker told both sides: “The parties need to get on with this and put it behind them.” Here here!

Considering Jamie Vardy is still on £140,000 a week at Leicester City, I think they’ll probably be fine. Still, he can’t be too happy about it all.

For the time Wayne Rooney had to tell off Jamie Vardy about his wife at Euro 2016, click HERE. She was leaking stuff to the press even back then!