Producers of west end show Vardy v Rooney say surprise legal move to trademark a pun will be referred to in script
“We didn’t see it coming,” said Eleanor Lloyd, the show’s originator and co-producer. “But so far, after looking into it all in the last couple of days, I can see no reason why I can’t go on without changing the name of the show.”
The court transcripts, which have been crafted into theatre by playwright Liv Hennessy, may now include a nod to the most recent development – a surprise legal move from Vardy. “I think we will make some reference to it in the script. I have been talking to the writer,” said Lloyd. “I had been a little worried, wondering if the whole story had dropped out of the headlines for good. But then, no, here it is back again. Another surprise from this extraordinary story,” said Lloyd. “I admire both these women for their commercial savvy, their willingness to go for it. And that’s part of what the play is about. When I first had the idea for the show and bought the court transcript, I can remember reading it to see if there was enough in it.
Trouble for Vardy began long before the moment when she failed to persuade the court that she had been libelled, and was ordered to pay up to £1.5m of Rooney’s legal costs. Rooney had been monitoring her erstwhile friend’s social media activity for some months in 2019 to find the source of a string of leaks about her life to thenewspaper. She set up false leads to entice the leaker, then watched to see which reached the press.
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