Rebekah Vardy is selling the luxurious Portuguese villa she and husband Jamie call their ‘sanctuary’ for an optimistic £9.7million - as she foots the £4m costs bill for her ill-fated Wagatha Christie libel case.

Last month, Rebekah, 43, was ordered by a judge to pay £1.4m towards rival Coleen Rooney’s legal expenses, on top of her own bill, reported to be more than £2million, from the disastrous libel claim she brought in 2022.