Rebekah Vardy (née Miranda; previously Nicholson; born 17 February 1982) is a British media personality.

It was determined that Vardy played a role in leaking fabricated stories about Rooney to The Sun, a British tabloid newspaper.

[8] In November 2017, Vardy was a contestant on the seventeenth series of the ITV reality TV show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!.

[19] Vardy supported the family of Alfie Evans, an infant boy from Liverpool with a then-undiagnosed neurodegenerative disorder, in their campaign to have him sent abroad for further treatment.

[26] The judge described Vardy as "an untrustworthy witness" and found that she probably worked with her agent to leak stories about Rooney to the press.

[28] In October 2022, Vardy was ordered by the court to pay 90% of Rooney's legal costs, which was reported to be a higher proportion than is usual in such cases.

The judge made this decision partly because Vardy had been found to have destroyed relevant evidence prior to the trial.

As a result, Vardy was ordered to make an immediate payment to Rooney of £800,000 with the remainder to be assessed with the maximum amount set at £1.5m.