Joey Barton has instructed to pay more than £ 200,000 from Jeremy Vine's legal costs in the defamation

Joey Barton was instructed to pay more than £ 200,000 to Jeremy Vine's legal costs after her fight against the defamation of the High Court.

Vine sued Barton for defamation and harassment about several posts on X, formerly Twitter, including one in which he incorrectly described the BBC Radio 2 moderator a “Big Bike Nonce” and a “pedo defender”.

The couple settled the claim in 2024 after Barton achieved two excuses on the same social media platform and paid a total of 110,000 GBP to Vine and its legal costs.

On Tuesday, a special cost court heard that Barton had approved to pay £ 160,000 of the Vine costs from the main action.

The costs, Colum Leonard, also ordered Barton to pay a further 43,172.30 GBP, which result from the negotiation of the value of 160,000 GBP, which means that after the legal steps he will pay a total of 203,172.30 GBP for the costs of Vine.

In an agreed explanation that was read before the High Court in October 2024, lawyer Gervase de Wilde said for Vine that the broadcaster “was deeply alerted, desperate and annoyed by Barton's actions”, to which a “persistent and serious campaign of the defamation, nuisance and abuse of private information” contained.

Vine's lawyers informed the High Court in May 2024 that Barton's posts make up a “calculated and persistent attack”.

Barton, who played during his career for teams such as Manchester City, Newcastle United, Rangers and French Side Marseille, also began using “#Bikenonce” to X, which caused them to trend on the platform.

After Ms. Justice Steyn decided that some of the posts could defamed Vine, Barton apologized to the journalist in June last year and explained that the allegations he made were “untrue”.

He said that he would pay Vine 75,000 pounds, but the lawyers for Vine later said that Barton would pay a further £ 35,000 as part of a “separate comparison” for published claims published after the start of the legal steps.

Mr. de Wilde informed the hearing in October that Barton made four companies as part of the settlement, including not to harass vineyards or to encourage others.

After this hearing, Vine said that Barton “has to be another hobby”.

The hearing on Tuesday was informed that Barton agreed to pay £ 160,000 at the legal costs of Vine at the beginning of this month, and that Vine claimed around 60,000 pounds for negotiating this number.

Suzanne Holmes said for Barton that this was “excess” and “disproportionate” and should be reduced.

Kevin Latham, who represents Vine, said that Barton “has not repeatedly managed to have undertaken the proper negotiations throughout the proceedings and” to bear the consequences of this approach “.

Neither Barton nor Vine took part in the hearing in London.