Rebekah Vardy humiliated as her ‘Wagatha Christie’ business fails to make any profit after she tried to cash in on libel case again Coleen Rooney
Rebekah Vardy has so far failed to make a penny from her business Wagatha Christie International Ltd.
She had hoped to make a mint from the courtroom drama by trademarking the name coined during her epic battle with Coleen Rooney.
But we can reveal that she’s yet to monetise the catchphrase.
Becky registered the catchy term for trademark in the UK in August 2022 through the company London Entertainment Inc Ltd which made two applications on her behalf.
One that covers a range of uses from broadcasting to beauty lotions, as well as non-alcoholic drinks, jewellery, stationery and fashion design was passed.
But accounts filed this week for Wagatha Christie International Ltd – of which Becky is the sole director – show the outfit is currently ‘dormant’ with assets of £100.
Rebekah Vardy has so far failed to make a penny from her business Wagatha Christie International Ltd
She had hoped to make a mint from the courtroom drama by trademarking the name coined during her epic battle with Coleen Rooney (seen on I’m A Celeb)
It comes after last November Rebekah was hit by another blow after her Wagatha Christie legal defeat.
MailOnline revealed at the time that Rebekah had lost a challenge from upmarket linen firm Christy which blocked her from flogging Wagatha Christie-themed towels and sheets.
The company filed papers two years ago with the UK’s Intellectual Property Office opposing the application from Rebekah’s team.
They said the names were too similar and her enterprise could harm the firm’s existing Christy trademark if she began selling towels and bed linen using the Wagatha Christie brand.
And last November Rebekah’s application took out all reference to towels and bed linen in an updated filing at the IPO.
Both sides produced evidence about the potential clash and trademark lawyers at the government department ruled in favour of the claims of Wellspun UK – makers of the pricey Christy brand.
Trademark clashes can end up in the High Court in London – scene of Rebekah and Coleen Rooney’s libel fight – if agreements cannot be reached.
Coleen ran up almost £2m in legal bills for the case after she sued Becky for libel after her rival claimed she was selling stories about her and her family to the media.
During Coleen’s stint on I’m A Celeb last year Coleen spoke about the trial despite rival Rebekah ‘vowing to call in the lawyers’ if she spoke about it in the jungle.
Coleen insisted the trial ‘wasn’t a joke to her’ as she confided in her campmates GK Barry, Jane Moore and Dean McCullough.
Becky registered the catchy term for trademark in the UK in August 2022 through the company London Entertainment Inc Ltd which made two applications on her behalf
But accounts filed this week for Wagatha Christie International Ltd – of which Becky is the sole director – show the outfit is currently ‘dormant’ with assets of £100 (Coleen seen arriving at court)
Wagatha Christie is the popular name given to Coleen and Rebekah’s £1.8 million court case, which culminated in 2022.
It began when Coleen put a widely shared post on Instagram which accused Rebekah of leaking ‘false stories’ about her private life to the press.
Rebekah denied the allegations and sued Coleen for libel, but the case – dubbed the Wagatha Christie trial – fell in Coleen’s favour, and left Rebekah liable to pay £1.5 million towards Coleen’s legal fees.
At the time it was reported that Rebekah was on high alert and was also keen to remind ITV bosses and the show’s hosts, Ant and Dec that she owns the trademark to the phrase Wagatha Christie.
A source told The Sun at the time: ‘Becky was absolutely agog to hear Coleen was doing I’m A Celeb and fears a whole new round of allegations about their WAG war.’
‘What’s more, she knows Ant and Dec will make her the brunt of their jokes and be desperate to jump on the Wagatha Christie phrase.
‘A very close eye will be kept on everything ITV air.’
Coleen spoke out about the three year ordeal on the Stick To Football podcast by SkyBet recently and admitted it caused her family life and marriage to husband Wayne to become ‘strained’.
She said: ‘It was the lowest I’d say I’ve ever been. I had no control over it and that was hard.
‘I knew what I was saying was right, but the fact that someone else took me to court and I had to prove it and say it was what it was was tough.
‘It was a long period of time and I couldn’t get away from it. Every day, I’d wake up and think ‘Coleen, just get on with your day’, but it kept creeping back in all the time.’
Last November MailOnline revealed that Rebekah had lost a challenge from upmarket linen firm Christy which blocked her from flogging Wagatha Christie-themed towels and sheets
Coleen went on to say she would become ‘snappy’ and dread Fridays because she would have to face lengthy phone calls with lawyers.
She added: ‘I felt like I wasn’t myself, I was snappy, and every Friday the lawyers rang me – the other team try and ruin your weekend by calling at the last point on Friday.
‘They’d tell me what’s going on and then to try and have a nice weekend. I’d go away and start overthinking things, and start looking for things that he’s asking for.
‘It got to 2am, Wayne would be waiting on the couch to watch something and eventually say ‘I’m going to bed’.
‘It put a strain on family life, friends. I wasn’t sociable and it stripped me.’
