Without the famous wags and footballers at its centre, the Wagatha Christie trial isn't interesting enough to make for good TV
after being accused of leaking titbits from her private Instagram account to the press, the sensational story was taken up wholeheartedly by the British public and promptly dubbed Wagatha Christie in honour of Rooney’s detective skills. Tabloids and broadsheets alike reported developments from the press pit, relating bitchy WhatsApp exchanges with the breathless urgency of war correspondents dispatching from the front line.
Focusing on Vardy’s testimony, splicing archival news footage with reconstructions of the arguments in court, tonight’s first episode trod a thin line between fact and fiction. I wish it had made up its mind one way or the other.must have sounded like a sure bet.
At the end of the episode, a flashforward to the next instalment featured Dion Lloyd as Wayne Rooney and though he played the part well, the snippet only underscored the inevitable inferiority of Channel 4’s drama to the real thing. When Wayne himself took the stand in summer, we got to hear the actual ex-England captain talking about his actual wife’s actual Instagram feud. With celebrity news’ magic ingredient replaced by actors, the story itself fell somewhat flat: two grown women going to court for something that suddenly sounded like an average Wednesday at my all-girls secondary school.
Vardy’s excellent court wardrobe – performatively restrained, her chic bun reminiscent of an early 20th-century governess, her high-collared button-up dress verging on puritan – was also diligently mirrored in the reconstruction. But “I remember that hairdo”When the real Wagatha Christie trial was unfolding, we revelled in the showdown’s double whammy of low stakes and high drama.
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