2009, 2013, 2016 and 2018. Rooney is a patron of the Liverpool-based Alder Hey Children's Charity. Rebekah Vardy dispute On 9 October 2019, Rooney made a Twitter post explaining that posts from her private Instagram account were being leaked to The Sun newspaper. She stated that to discover who was selling the stories, she had restricted access to the posts. She revealed that the only viewer of these posts was an account belonging to Rebekah Vardy implying that she was the culprit. The ensuing scandal was dubbed 'Wagatha Christie', a portmanteau of the football term WAG and mystery writer Agatha Christie, by the British media. Vardy responded on her own Twitter account, denying the claims and claiming that her Instagram account had been hacked. In June 2020, news broke that Vardy was taking Rooney to court for defamation, with legal costs reportedly set to hit £500,000 on each side. On 20 November 2020, Justice Warby ruled in favour of Vardy after the libel preliminary hearing at the High Court in London which took place on 19 November 2020. Neither Rooney nor Vardy were at the court in person. Rooney was ordered to pay Vardy almost £23,000 in court costs. The pair were given until 8 February 2021 to make an attempt to mediate their case. In May 2022, Vardy sued Rooney for libel, arguing that the accusation over her Instagram account was false. Following the earlier ruling, it became Rooney’s responsibility to prove Vardy was personally responsible for leaking stories to The Sun, or convince the judge that publication of the allegation was in the public interest. On 29 July 2022, the judge in the case, Mrs Justice Steyn, dismissed Mrs Vardy's claim, ruling that Mrs Rooney's accusation was "substantially true". References External links 1986 births English columnists English memoirists English people of Irish descent English Roman Catholics Television presenters from Liverpool Association footballers' wives and girlfriends Living people Writers from Liverpool Rooney family (England)