They are jointly suing a female barrister for libel. Judge Jay gives them the first round.
'Rachel Riley and Tracy-Ann Oberman win first round of High Court libel battle.
The two TV stars are suing barrister Jane Heybroek for libel after she shared a link to the article on Twitter, and are claiming they had been accused of “subjecting a vulnerable 16-year-old girl to repeated harassment and abuse”.
In his ruling on the article and whether accusations made in it could be considered defamatory, the judge concluded the words used “are sufficiently serious” that the reputations of Ms Oberman and Ms Riley “will have been lowered in the eyes of the likely readership”.'