Wagatha Christie

proper noun

A dispute between footballers' wives Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney regarding the leaking of posts from a private social media account, which culminated in a 2022 libel case in the English High Court, Vardy v Rooney.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. attributivehumorousoftenslangA dispute between footballers' wives Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney regarding the leaking of posts from a private social media account, which culminated in a 2022 libel case in the English High Court, Vardy v Rooney.

    The “Wagatha Christie” libel battle kept headline writers and lovers of soap opera happy for months.

    2022, Kate Moore, Here We Go Again...: Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph (page vii)
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    While I was sitting carefully crafting witty Wagatha Christie tweets, Dougie was doing a deal that ensured he could retire before he hit forty.

    2023, Portia MacIntosh, Better Off Wed

Origin

Blend of WAG (“wife or girlfriend”) + Agatha Christie (“a whodunnit fiction writer”).

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APA

Wagatha Christie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wagatha%20Christie

MLA

“Wagatha Christie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wagatha%20Christie. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Wagatha Christie,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wagatha%20Christie.

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