Director Lucy Bowden perfects the balance between the camp elements to this tale – it’s all soundtracked like a Poirot Christmas special – while never losing sight of the fundamental cruelty at its heart.

Director Lucy Bowden takes on proceedings with a straight face and, once the meandering opening episode is out of the way, paces things nicely towards the conclusion.

This is much better than previous Wagatha fare, including that rather dry 2022 Channel 4 drama. Still, from Rooney and Vardy, that’s quite enough of the Wagatha cottage industry.

The spine of the three-parter is Rooney, wife of Wayne, walking us through the famous "Scousetrap" she set for Vardy after she suspected that she had been leaking stories about her to The Sun. At times I found this quite repetitive and, dare I say it, boring. But Rooney is an impressive witness. She presents as almost compulsively honest.

The world doesn’t necessarily need one from Coleen Rooney’s POV in order for us to understand the situation better. If you’re a fan of football or WAG culture, you’ll certainly appreciate the level of access this series gives to the Rooneys and their inner circle, but general audiences can safely SKIP IT.

If The Real Wagatha Story embraced the silliness of all this, it might make a fun show. But it takes itself deathly seriously.

Maybe this documentary picks up when the trial is reached in the final episode (not available for review), but there can be nothing so interesting there – given its frenzied coverage at the time, and anatomisation since – that possibly justifies the hours of boredom that have preceded it.