Coleen Rooney | |
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| Born | Coleen Mary McLoughlin (1986-04-03)3 April 1986 (age 38) Liverpool, England |
| Education | St John Bosco Arts College |
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| Children | 4 |
Coleen Mary Rooney (néeMcLoughlin; born 3 April 1986) is an English media personality. She is married to Englishfootball manager and former playerWayne Rooney.
Coleen Mary McLoughlin was born inLiverpool to Tony and Colette McLoughlin. Tony McLoughlin, who was abricklayer, also ran aboxing club. The McLoughlins are of Irish descent. Coleen is the eldest of four children; her sister Rosie, who hadRett syndrome, died on 5 January 2013 at the age of 14. Coleen has four boys: Kai, Klay, Kit and Cass.[1]
Coleen Rooney attendedSt John Bosco Arts College and left school with 10GCSEs, including an A* forPerforming Arts.[2]
Rooney wrote a column for celebrity magazineCloser entitled "Welcome to My World". She leftCloser in 2008 to write a weekly fashion and news column forOK! magazine.[3] Rooney began presenting when in May 2006, she assistedSir Trevor McDonald on his showTonight with Trevor McDonald in a programme about thegenetic disorderRett syndrome, from which her younger sister suffered.[4] She went on to make her own series forITV calledColeen's Real Women in which she was labelled as "the nation's favouritegirl next door"[5] and looked for "real women" to frontadvertising campaigns as an alternative to models.[6]
In December 2005, Rooney sold an exerciseDVD entitledColeen McLoughlin's Brand New Body Workout, which became a bestseller in the United Kingdom.[7] She was paid £3 million to front theGeorge at Asda campaign.[8] In June 2010, Rooney struck a deal with retail and gambling companyLittlewoods.[9] Rooney's autobiography,Welcome to My World, was released in March 2007.[10] This was followed byColeen's Real Style the following year, published byHarperCollins.[11] She has also published a four-book series calledColeen Style Queen from 2008 to 2010.[12]
In October 2023, a drama documentary about theWagatha Christie court caseVardy v Rooney was released onDisney+, which documented and told Rooney’s side of the case and the details leading up to the social media posting.[13]
In November 2024, Rooney appeared as a contestant on thetwenty-fourth series ofI'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, finishing in second place after 22 days in the jungle.[14]
She met her future husband,Wayne Rooney, at age 12 in the Liverpool suburb ofCroxteth. They began a relationship when they were 16, after they left secondary school. Wayne's mother Jeanette worked as a part-time cleaner atSt John Bosco Arts College, which Coleen attended.[15]
The couple married inPortofino, Italy, on 12 June 2008; Britain'sOK! magazine paid them a reported £2.5 million for exclusive wedding information and pictures.[16] The newlyweds, dubbed Wayleen,[17] moved into a new £1.3m mansion inFormby. They lived inPrestbury, Cheshire, in a £4 million neo-Georgian mansion,[18] prior to moving to the United States for Wayne Rooney’s career as player and manager for D.C. United.
The Rooneys have four sons, born in 2009, 2013, 2016 and 2018.[19][20][21][22]
Rooney is a patron of the Liverpool-basedAlder Hey Children's Charity.[23]
On 9 October 2019, Rooney made aTwitter post[24] explaining that posts from her privateInstagram account were being leaked toThe Sun newspaper. She stated that to discover who was selling the stories, she had restricted access to the posts. She revealed that the only viewer of these posts was an account belonging toRebekah Vardy, implying that she was the culprit. The ensuing scandal was dubbed "Wagatha Christie", aportmanteau of the football termWAG and mystery writerAgatha Christie,[25] by the British media.
Vardy responded on her own Twitter account, denying the claims and claiming that her Instagram account had been hacked.[26] 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.[27][28] In 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.[29][30] In May 2022, Vardy sued Rooney for libel, arguing that the accusation over her Instagram account was false. Following the earlier ruling, it became Rooney’s responsibility to prove Vardy was personally responsible for leaking stories toThe Sun, or convince the judge that publication of the allegation was in the public interest.[31] In July 2022, the judge in the case,Mrs Justice Steyn, dismissed Mrs Vardy's claim, ruling that Mrs Rooney's accusation was "substantially true".[32]
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