“Never has a celebrity trial felt both so petty and irrelevant and yet had such a choke hold on my interest.”
Never has a celebrity trial felt both so petty and irrelevant and yet had such a choke hold on my interest. The courtroom spat is both sidesplittingly hilarious and cartoonishly unimportant. These women are mega rich, their lives to date are essentially gossip fodder, and the stakes feellow. I’m in borderline hysterics at all the grimy, gossipy details.
In order to file the suit, Vardy has had to publicly submit embarrassingly blundering text conversations with her agent, where she explicitly for leaking a story about other people. It feels like an open-and-shut case. But despite a Bible-thick stack of circumstantial evidence against her, there seems to be nowho sells stories. It cannot be proven incontrovertibly that Vardy sowed the stories Rooney seeded, and there’s no smoking gun linking her to the actual deed.
The WAGs have also fuelled a particularly murky new chapter in the UK tabloid press, where the miserable practice of phone hacking gave way to everybody sharing everything all the time on social media and the papers just reporting that. These women are the opposite of private. Publicity is their lifeblood, and they deal in column inches. But the thought that they’re not all on the same side – that they’re doing the dirty on each other – changes the dynamic.
I know there’s a less fun, less lightly entertaining side to all this. Vardy was pregnant at the time of the post and has received unimaginably vindictive threats to both her and her baby’s life. Our infatuation with the trial also highlights a certain British cultural fascination with women who are rich but don’t act rich . As with so much of British culture, class is really the invisible factor that undercoats the situation.
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