WhatsApp Wagatha?
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Vardy’s "nasty" messages were not about Rooney, apparently... Victoria Derbyshire sits in for Adam and chats to the Guardian Media Editor, Jim Waterson, about all things "Wagatha Christie".
Prof Peter Openshaw (who advises the Government on Covid) tells us what he thinks about Boris Johnson’s surprise plan to scrap all the Covid rules very soon.
LBC radio host and West Ham fan, Iain Dale, takes us through what happened since the Kurt Zouma cat video was posted online.
And... Laura is on the move, again, talking partygate....
Today’s Newscast was made by John Murphy with Alix Pickles and Georgia Coan. The studio director was Mike Regaard and the assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.5 | Hello, everyone calls it Wagatha Christie. |
| 0:07.4 | Rebecca Vardy, who married Jamie, |
| 0:09.5 | up against Colleen Rooney, who married Wayne, in the High Court. |
| 0:13.6 | Now this is a hearing ahead of a libel trial |
| 0:16.7 | and some really wow what's that message has been read out in court. |
| 0:20.5 | Rebecca sent this to her then friend and agent. |
| 0:24.1 | She thinks it's me that's been doing stories on her, |
| 0:26.6 | of all the people on her Instagram. |
| 0:28.2 | That needs to get over herself. |
| 0:31.5 | This story's been everywhere in the past couple of days. |
| 0:34.0 | Let's talk to Jim Waters, |
| 0:35.2 | a media editor of the Guardian who's been covering it. Hi, Jim. |
| 0:37.9 | Hi, I'm glad to know that the newscasts |
| 0:39.8 | are more liberal approach to slaring than the rest of the BBC. |
| 0:43.7 | Don't worry, it's going to be. |
| 0:45.2 | Out. |
| 0:46.2 | So what adjectives would you use to describe |
| 0:51.6 | the revelations of the past couple of days? |
| 0:53.6 | And then I'll ask you to remind us why we're here. |
| 0:56.2 | It's been a pretty extraordinary hearing |
| 0:59.1 | because this isn't even the trial. |
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