Coleen Rooney

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Coleen Rooney
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Rooney in 2006
Born
Coleen Mary McLoughlin

(1986-04-03) 3 April 1986 (age 35)
Liverpool, Merseyside, England
NationalityBritish
EducationSt John Bosco Arts College
Spouse(s)
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(m. 2008)​
Children4

Coleen Mary Rooney (née McLoughlin; born 3 April 1986) is an English author and television personality.

Early life and family[]

Coleen Mary McLoughlin was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, to Tony and Colette McLoughlin. Tony McLoughlin, who was a bricklayer, also ran a boxing club. The McLoughlins are of Irish descent. Coleen is the eldest of four children; her adopted sister Rosie, who suffered with Rett syndrome, died on 5 January 2013 at the age of 14.[1]

Coleen Rooney attended St John Bosco Arts College and left school with 10 GCSEs, including an A* for Performing Arts.[2]

Career[]

Rooney wrote a column for celebrity magazine Closer entitled "Welcome to My World". She left Closer in 2008 to write a weekly fashion and news column for OK! magazine.[3] Rooney began presenting when in May 2006, she assisted Sir Trevor McDonald on his show Tonight with Trevor McDonald in a programme about the genetic disorder Rett syndrome, from which her younger sister suffered.[4] She went on to make her own series for ITV called Coleen's Real Women in which she was labelled as "The nation's favourite girl next door"[5] and looked for "real women" to front advertising campaigns as an alternative to models.[6]

In December 2005, Rooney sold an exercise DVD entitled Coleen McLoughlin's Brand New Body Workout, which became a bestseller in the United Kingdom.[7] She was paid £3 million to front the George at Asda campaign.[8] In June 2010, Rooney struck a deal with retail and gambling company Littlewoods.[9] Rooney's autobiography, Welcome to My World, was released in March 2007.[10] This was followed by Coleen's Real Style the following year, published by HarperCollins.[11] She has also published a four-book series called Coleen Style Queen from 2008 to 2010.[12]

Personal life[]

Marriage and children[]

She met her future husband, Wayne Rooney, at age 12 in the Liverpool suburb of Croxteth. They began a relationship when they were 16, after they left secondary school. Wayne's mother Jeanette worked as a part-time cleaner at St John Bosco Arts College, which Coleen attended.[13]

The couple married in Portofino, Italy on 12 June 2008; Britain's OK! magazine paid them a reported £2.5 million for exclusive wedding information and pictures.[14] The newlyweds, dubbed Wayleen,[15] moved into a new £1.3m mansion in Formby. They currently live in Prestbury, Cheshire, in a £4 million Neo-Georgian mega mansion.[16]

The Rooneys have four sons: Kai Wayne (born 2 November 2009),[17] Klay Anthony (born 21 May 2013),[18] Kit Joseph (born 24 January 2016),[19] and Cass Mac (born 15 February 2018).[20]

She is a patron of the Liverpool Based Alder Hey Children's Charity.[21]

Rebekah Vardy dispute[]

On 9 October 2019, Rooney made a Twitter post[22] explaining that posts from her private Instagram account were being leaked to The Sun newspaper. She stated that to catch out who was selling the stories, she had restricted access on who could see the posts. She revealed that the only viewer of these posts was Rebekah Vardy's account, thereby insinuating that she was the culprit. This tweet went viral, being dubbed 'Wagatha Christie'[23] (a play on words of famous mystery writer Agatha Christie, and the football term 'WAG').

Vardy responded on her own Twitter account, denying the claims and insinuating that her Instagram had been hacked.[24]

In June 2020, news broke that Vardy was taking Rooney to court for defamation, with legal costs reportedly set to hit £500,000 on each side.[25][better source needed]

On 20 November 2020, Mr Justice Warby ruled in favour of Vardy after the libel preliminary hearing at the High Court in London which took place on 19 November 2020. Neither Rooney nor Vardy were at the court in person. Rooney was ordered to pay Vardy almost £23,000 in court costs. The pair were given until 8 February 2021 to make an attempt to mediate their case.[26][better source needed]

References[]

  1. ^ "Coleen Rooney's sister Rosie dies". BBC News. 5 January 2013. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  2. ^ Davies, Hunter (17 December 2006). "Some have celebrity thrust upon them". The Times. Archived from the original on 19 March 2007. Retrieved 7 March 2007.
  3. ^ Coleen McLoughlin–fiancée of Wayne Rooney
  4. ^ "Coleen Rooney visits Lourdes with disabled sister". Now Magazine. 23 September 2008. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  5. ^ "Coleens Real Women". ITV.
  6. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 October 2008. Retrieved 7 March 2007.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Retrieved 22 April 2007.
  7. ^ "Coleen McLoughlin's Brand New Body Workout DVD". ASDA Entertainment. archive.is. Archived from the original on 15 June 2006. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  8. ^ Hayes, David (3 July 2006). "Coleen returns to day job". Archived from the original on 8 April 2008. Retrieved 22 April 2007.
  9. ^ "Coleen's New £2m Score". Showbiz.sky.com. Archived from the original on 25 June 2010. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  10. ^ Coslett, Paul (9 March 2007). "Coleen McLoughlin". BBC News. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  11. ^ "Coleen's Real Style - Coleen Rooney - E-book". HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  12. ^ "Coleen Style Queen Book Series: Amazon.com". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  13. ^ "Profiles: Coleen McLoughlin: Triumph of teen spirit and awful taste". The Times. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 22 April 2007.
  14. ^ "Wayne and Coleen 'marry in Italy'". BBC. 12 June 2008. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  15. ^ "Wayleen's World". The Daily Telegraph. 5 December 2004. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  16. ^ "Wayne Rooney's House: A look at the footballer's luxury home". World Football Extra. 16 October 2011. Archived from the original on 4 June 2013. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
  17. ^ Ronay, Barney (2 November 2009). "Wayne Rooney's wife Coleen gives birth to baby boy". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  18. ^ "Rooneys announce arrival of baby". BBC News. 21 May 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  19. ^ Rooney, Coleen [@ColeenRoo] (24 January 2016). "Our gorgeous little Boy arrived today!! Kit Joseph Rooney .... 8Ib 1oz. We are all over the moon!!