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Her team have claimed a '2-1 victory in the semi final' as a judge ruled largely in her favour in the latest stage of her Wagatha Christie legal battle against Rebekah Vardy.  

And on Wednesday morning, Coleen Rooney, 35, woke her kids by playing It's Coming Home ahead of England's Euros game, taking to her Instagram Stories to show off the special wake-up.

The Liverpudlian beauty filmed her sleeping children while blaring out Thee Lions (It's Coming Home) and added laughing emojis to her videos. 

Morning! On Wednesday morning, Coleen Rooney, 35, woke her kids by playing 'It's Coming Home,' taking to her Instagram Stories to show off the special wake-up

Eldest son Kai, 11, rubbed his eyes and looked a little confused as he slowly sat up in bed while the song played out. 

Baby Cass, three, was clearly already wide awake, and could be heard in the background yelling: 'Mum, mum.' 

Next up, Klay, eight, and Kit, five, who lay next to each other in a football themed bed, refused to be woken from their slumber by the football anthem.

And other stars also took to social media ahead of England's Euros semi-final match against Denmark at Wembley. 

WAG battle: Her team have claimed a '2-1 victory in the semi final' as a judge ruled largely in her favour in the latest stage of her Wagatha Christie legal battle against Rebekah Vardy 

What's going on? Eldest son Kai, 11, rubbed his eyes and looked a little confused as he slowly sat up in bed while the song played out

Bless him! Kai had been sleeping soundly before his mother burst in playing It's Coming Home

Not happening! Klay, eight, and Kit, five, who lay next to each other in a football themed bed, refused to be woken from their slumber by the football anthem

Jack Whitehall shared a childhood photograph of himself wearing an England kit and holding up a cake adorned with candles.

The birthday boy - who is celebrating turning 33 - wrote alongside: 'I have only one birthday wish. Bring it home! #england.' 

Roman Kemp, 28, took to Instagram where he posted a still of himself with England flags painted on his face, and screaming into a Capital FM microphone.

The radio host captioned the action shot: 'PLEASE @england PLEASE,' which led his famous uncle Gary Kemp, 61, to reminisce.

Commenting beneath, the Spandau Ballet star wrote: 'Saw so many England matches with you when you were a kid. Let’s hope this one ends better than some of those. COE!!!!'

 

Throwback: Birthday boy Jack Whitehall, 33, shared a childhood photograph of himself wearing an England kit and wished for England to 'Bring it home!'

Please! Roman Kemp, 28, took to Instagram where he posted a still of himself with England flags painted on his face, and screaming into a Capital FM microphone

Sweet: The radio host's action shot led his famous uncle Gary Kemp, 61, to reminisce

Coleen's celebratory wake-up came as Mrs Justice Steyn rejected Rebekah Vardy's lawyers' bid at the High Court to issue a summary judgement on one part of Coleen's defence to the long-running £1million libel suit against her. 

Although the judge did agree to strike out some sections of the Rooney defence - including a claim Mrs Vardy stole a seat behind Mrs Rooney at Euro 2016 to boost her profile - it left the majority of her case intact, and will only result in two paragraphs being removed, rather than the 12 demanded by Rebekah's lawyers.  

Crucially, an application to strike out Coleen's 'public interest' defence was also rejected.

As England face Denmark at Wembley tonight, a source close to Coleen declared: 'This is the equivalent of a 2-1 win in the semi finals without the agony of extra time or a penalty shoot-out.' 

The long-running feud between the high-profile WAGS erupted after Coleen revealed that she had set a trap to see who was responsible for leaks to the media, which earned her the nickname Wagatha Christie.

Coleen famously wrote: 'I have saved and screenshotted all the original stories which clearly show just one person has viewed them. It's ................ Rebekah Vardy's account.'

The Instagram post went viral, and soon after Rebekah took to social media to deny being the person who had leaked the stories to the press.

Rebekah's team launched a bid last month to have large parts of Coleen's defence in the ongoing libel case struck out.

Rebekah's barrister Hugh Tomlinson QC told Mrs Justice Steyn: 'The purpose of this application is to clear away a mass of irrelevant and peripheral material in order to save time and costs and focus on the main issues in the case.'

But the move was branded a 'tactical exercise' to avoid having to disclose matters which will prove Coleen's case is correct, according to her own lawyer David Sherborne.

Coleen's team told the court that the sections which Rebekah was seeking to remove are 'plainly relevant and proportionate' and the argument that leaving them in will substantially increase the costs of the trial is 'seriously overstated and bears no real scrutiny'.

They added: 'Another factor that should be borne in mind is that the Claimant [Rebekah] is seeking to remove what are, no doubt, paragraphs that [she] finds uncomfortable and embarrassing. '

The key issue in Rebekah's pre-trial application to the court concerned the so-called 'TV decisions post' which Coleen put out on Instagram and claims she blocked all her other followers apart from Rebekah from viewing.

In the post, the Liverpool-born star posted a selfie with text reading 'easing my way back into work!! TV decisions today' in September 2019.

A story reporting her desire to revive her TV career appeared on The Sun's website three days later, Coleen claims.

However, Coleen said she 'invented' the story as part of her investigation to discover the source of the leaks and had no intention of entering into more television work.

Ongoing: Coleen (pictured with Wayne in 2016) said she discovered Rebekah Vardy's alleged betrayal by carrying out a months-long 'sting operation'

But the judge rejected the application for summary judgement, saying: 'It is one of many factual issues to be resolved at trial in determining whether the truth defence is made out. It seems highly unlikely that resolution of this issue would assist the parties to settle the claim.'

She added: 'While there is some force in the claimant's submission that there are significant differences between the TV Decisions Articles and the Post from which they are alleged to derive, the question whether the claimant disclosed the TV Decisions Post to The Sun is one that can only properly be answered having regard to all the evidence at trial. '

Coleen's solicitors, Brabners, put out an immediate statement headed: 'Rebekah Vardy's summary judgment application fails.'

They added: 'Rebekah Vardy's application for summary judgment was dismissed by Mrs Justice Steyn DBE in a judgment handed down this morning in the ongoing Vardy v Rooney libel litigation.

'The court also refused Rebekah's application to strike out Coleen's public interest defence.

WAGatha Christie: Coleen wrote on Instagram and Twitter: 'I have saved and screenshotted all the original stories which clearly show just one person has viewed them'

'In the same application, Mrs Vardy had also sought to limit what documents and information she will be required to disclose by applying to strike out twelve paragraphs of Mrs Rooney's defence.

'The court rejected those applications by Mrs Vardy, with the exception of two paragraphs and parts of another one relating to allegations of Ms Vardy's self-promotion in the press.

'A key part of the defence that Mrs Vardy failed to strike out is Mrs Rooney's allegation that Ms Vardy was a primary source for the 'Secret Wag' column in The Sun.

'The high-profile libel claim brought by Ms Vardy is over a post on social media that alleged she had secretly informed The Sun newspaper of Ms Rooney's private posts and stories from Instagram.'

'The claimant's engagement on social media with these journalists is relevant in considering the defendant's case that she had an exceptionally close relationship with them, which I have accepted is one of the building blocks on which the defendant seeks to build her defence of truth.'    

Mrs Justice Steyn threw out parts of Coleen's defence but kept some aspects that Rebekah had applied to strike out.

The judge dismissed a claim by Coleen that her fellow footballer's wife showed 'publicity-seeking behaviour' when sitting behind her in someone else's seat at the 2016 Euros.

Mrs Justice Steyn found that even assuming the allegation was true, it would still not help Coleen's case.

She said: 'The fact that a person seeks media coverage of their own attendance at a football match does not make it more probable that they would disclose private information about another person to the press.'

Another section concerned Rebekah's so-called 'campaign of self-promotion' and outlined alleged dealings between her and paparazzi agencies.

It was claimed that in June 2018, during the World Cup, Rebekah 'orchestrated' a photograph of her with other WAGS Millie Savage, Gemma Acton, Megan Davison, Annabel Peyton, Fern Hawkins, Shannon Horlock, Annie Kilner, and Lucia Loi outside a restaurant in St Petersburg which appeared in The Sun.

Another section claimed that Rebekah was accused by former Girls Aloud star Sarah Harding of taking 'intrusive photographs' or her at the National Television Awards ceremony in 2018.

The judge said the argument was irrelevant, adding 'it would be a waste of time and resources' for the claim to continue.

Mrs Justice Steyn also threw out an allegation that Rebekah was leaking about the libel case itself to The Sun.

She said: 'While this is an allegation of leaking confidential information to The Sun, the nature of it is very different to what was alleged in the post.

'Notably, the defendant has pleaded it in support of the contention that there is a close relationship between the claimant and The Sun, rather than as an instance of the claimant disclosing another person's private information.'

Drama: Coleen publicly accused Rebekah of sharing stories about her back in October 2019

The judge further dismissed part of Coleen's defence about how Rebekah had written a statement for the press regulator IPSO after a complaint was made about The Sun. 

She later dismissed Rebekah's bid for summary judgment - a legal step which would see that part of the case resolved without a trial - in relation to Coleen's claim that Rebekah leaked a story to The Sun about her returning to TV presenting.

The judge concluded: 'It is one of many factual issues to be resolved at trial in determining whether the truth defence is made out.

'It seems highly unlikely that resolution of this issue would assist the parties to settle the claim.'