Coleen McLoughlin
Encyclopedia
Coleen Mary Rooney is best known for being the wife of Manchester United
and England
football
star Wayne Rooney
. She has developed a career as a TV presenter, columnist and celebrity product endorser and is regularly mentioned in British tabloid media.
, Merseyside
, to Tony McLoughlin, who was a bricklayer and ran a boxing club, and his wife Colette, who was a nursery nurse. The McLoughlins are of Irish descent. Coleen is the eldest of four children, followed by her brothers Joe and Anthony and her adopted sister Rosie, who has been diagnosed with Rett syndrome
. She met her future husband, Wayne Rooney at the age of 12 in the Liverpool suburb of Croxteth
. They supposedly began a relationship at the age of 16, after they left secondary school.
Wayne's mother, Jeanette, worked as a part-time cleaner at St John Bosco
, the Catholic school Coleen attended.
Wayne took Coleen to the cinema to see Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
on their first date.
Coleen Rooney left school with 10 GCSEs
, including an A* for Performing Arts. She has long harboured dreams of becoming an actress, having starred in high school productions of Bugsy Malone
and Grease
.
The couple, dubbed Wayleen, moved into a new £1.3m mansion in Formby
. They now live in a £3.5 million mansion in Prestbury, Cheshire
.
Coleen has always been very supportive of Wayne, even when it was discovered that some years earlier he had visited prostitutes.
Their wedding took place in Portofino
, Italy on 12 June 2008. The couple were paid a reported £2.5 million by Britain's OK!
magazine for exclusive wedding information and pictures.
On 2 November 2009 Coleen gave birth to their first child, Kai Wayne Rooney. Kai was born at the Liverpool Women's Hospital, weighing in at 8 lbs 2ozs. Rooney and her son left the hospital at 9.30 a.m., on 3 November 2009, less than 24 hours after she had given birth.
magazine, for which she was paid £41,667 per month Coleen writes about her style and news.
Rooney tried her hand at 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 suffers. She went on to make her own series for ITV
called Coleen's Real Women in which she was labeled as "The nation's favourite girl next door" and looked for "real women" to front advertising campaigns as an alternative to models.
She presented awards at the ELLE
Style awards, Television awards and also presented an award to Best Dressed Female at Aintree
in which she handed out the prizes, which included a shopping bag from Coleen's favourite store, Liverpool boutique Cricket.
Rooney was paid £500,000 to be the face of the LG Electronics
Chocolate mobile phone advertising campaign. She has a £1.5 million deal with Nike Women Sportswear, a £2 million arrangement with Harper Collins to write a style book and a £1.5 million deal to be the face of Asda. She was also paid £150,000 to make a documentary about her upbringing called Coleen's Mimsy.
Rooney has an exercise DVD
on sale in the UK, entitled Coleen McLoughlin's Brand New Body Workout, which became a bestseller. For the DVD she was paid £250,000.
She was paid £3 million to front the George at Asda campaign.
Rooney's autobiography, Welcome to My World, was released in March 2007. She now has a wealth of over £8 million.
Rooney caused controversy after being chosen to appear in British Vogue. Editor Alexandra Shulman
called Coleen "beautiful" and praising her "brilliant sense of style".
In June 2010, Coleen struck a deal with Littlewoods, rumoured to be worth £2 million; she said of the deal: "The role is a perfect match in enabling me to select and wear my favourite styles as well as share my ideas on how to carry off the season's new trends."
Manchester United F.C.
Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.The 1958...
and England
England national football team
The England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...
football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
star Wayne Rooney
Wayne Rooney
Wayne Mark Rooney is an English footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester United and the England national team...
. She has developed a career as a TV presenter, columnist and celebrity product endorser and is regularly mentioned in British tabloid media.
Personal life
Coleen Mary McLoughlin was born in LiverpoolLiverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
, Merseyside
Merseyside
Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. It encompasses the metropolitan area centred on both banks of the lower reaches of the Mersey Estuary, and comprises five metropolitan boroughs: Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton, Wirral, and the city of Liverpool...
, to Tony McLoughlin, who was a bricklayer and ran a boxing club, and his wife Colette, who was a nursery nurse. The McLoughlins are of Irish descent. Coleen is the eldest of four children, followed by her brothers Joe and Anthony and her adopted sister Rosie, who has been diagnosed with Rett syndrome
Rett syndrome
Rett syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder of the grey matter of the brain that almost exclusively affects females. The clinical features include small hands and feet and a deceleration of the rate of head growth . Repetitive hand movements, such as wringing and/or repeatedly putting hands into...
. She met her future husband, Wayne Rooney at the age of 12 in the Liverpool suburb of Croxteth
Croxteth
Croxteth is a suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England and a Liverpool City Council Ward. Although housing in the area is predominantly modern, the suburb has some notable history. It is known locally as "Crocky"...
. They supposedly began a relationship at the age of 16, after they left secondary school.
Wayne's mother, Jeanette, worked as a part-time cleaner at St John Bosco
John Bosco
John Bosco , was an Italian Catholic priest, educator and writer of the 19th century, who put into practice the convictions of his religion, dedicating his life to the betterment and education of street children, juvenile delinquents, and other disadvantaged youth and employing teaching methods...
, the Catholic school Coleen attended.
Wayne took Coleen to the cinema to see Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, released in 1999, is the second film in the Austin Powers series that began with 1997's Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and continued with Austin Powers in Goldmember. The film was directed by Jay Roach, co-written by Mike Myers and screenwriter...
on their first date.
Coleen Rooney left school with 10 GCSEs
General Certificate of Secondary Education
The General Certificate of Secondary Education is an academic qualification awarded in a specified subject, generally taken in a number of subjects by students aged 14–16 in secondary education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and is equivalent to a Level 2 and Level 1 in Key Skills...
, including an A* for Performing Arts. She has long harboured dreams of becoming an actress, having starred in high school productions of Bugsy Malone
Bugsy Malone
Bugsy Malone is a 1976 musical film, very loosely based on events in New York City in the Prohibition era, specifically the exploits of gangsters like Al Capone and Bugs Moran, as dramatized in cinema...
and Grease
Grease (musical)
Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School , follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love,...
.
The couple, dubbed Wayleen, moved into a new £1.3m mansion in Formby
Formby
Formby is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England. It has a population of approximately 25,000....
. They now live in a £3.5 million mansion in Prestbury, Cheshire
Prestbury, Cheshire
Prestbury is a village, civil parish and ecclesiastical parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Prestbury is a long, narrow parish covering 1,165 hectares to the west of the Peak Park foothills and to the east of the sandstone ridge which is...
.
Coleen has always been very supportive of Wayne, even when it was discovered that some years earlier he had visited prostitutes.
Their wedding took place in Portofino
Portofino
Portofino is a small Italian fishing village, comune and tourist resort located in the province of Genoa on the Italian Riviera. The town is crowded round its small harbour, is closely associated with Paraggi Beach, which is a few minutes up the coast...
, Italy on 12 June 2008. The couple were paid a reported £2.5 million by Britain's OK!
OK!
OK! is a British weekly magazine specializing in celebrity news. Originally launched as a monthly, its first issue was published in April 1993. In September 2004, OK! publishers Northern and Shell launched in Australia as a monthly title – the magazine went weekly in October 2006...
magazine for exclusive wedding information and pictures.
On 2 November 2009 Coleen gave birth to their first child, Kai Wayne Rooney. Kai was born at the Liverpool Women's Hospital, weighing in at 8 lbs 2ozs. Rooney and her son left the hospital at 9.30 a.m., on 3 November 2009, less than 24 hours after she had given birth.
Media work
Rooney had her own column in the celebrity magazine Closer entitled "Welcome to My World", for which she earned up to £10,000. However she left Closer in 2008 she then went on to write a weekly column for OK!OK!
OK! is a British weekly magazine specializing in celebrity news. Originally launched as a monthly, its first issue was published in April 1993. In September 2004, OK! publishers Northern and Shell launched in Australia as a monthly title – the magazine went weekly in October 2006...
magazine, for which she was paid £41,667 per month Coleen writes about her style and news.
Rooney tried her hand at presenting when, in May 2006, she assisted Sir Trevor McDonald
Trevor McDonald
Sir Trevor McDonald OBE is a Trinidadian-British newsreader and journalist. He had a long career as a news presenter with ITN...
on his show Tonight with Trevor McDonald in a programme about the genetic disorder Rett syndrome, from which her younger sister suffers. She went on to make her own series for ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
called Coleen's Real Women in which she was labeled as "The nation's favourite girl next door" and looked for "real women" to front advertising campaigns as an alternative to models.
She presented awards at the ELLE
Elle
Elle may refer to:*Elle, Central African Republic*Elle , a fashion publication*Ellé, a river in France*Elle , a female given name*Elle , a Sri Lankan game similar to baseball*Ælle of Sussex, a Saxon king...
Style awards, Television awards and also presented an award to Best Dressed Female at Aintree
Aintree
Aintree is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside. It lies between Walton and Maghull on the A59 road, about north of Liverpool city centre, in North West England....
in which she handed out the prizes, which included a shopping bag from Coleen's favourite store, Liverpool boutique Cricket.
Rooney was paid £500,000 to be the face of the LG Electronics
LG Electronics
LG Electronics is a global electronics and telecommunications company headquartered in Yeouido, Seoul, South Korea. The company operates its business through five divisions: mobile communications, home entertainment, home appliance, air conditioning and business solution...
Chocolate mobile phone advertising campaign. She has a £1.5 million deal with Nike Women Sportswear, a £2 million arrangement with Harper Collins to write a style book and a £1.5 million deal to be the face of Asda. She was also paid £150,000 to make a documentary about her upbringing called Coleen's Mimsy.
Rooney has an exercise DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
on sale in the UK, entitled Coleen McLoughlin's Brand New Body Workout, which became a bestseller. For the DVD she was paid £250,000.
She was paid £3 million to front the George at Asda campaign.
Rooney's autobiography, Welcome to My World, was released in March 2007. She now has a wealth of over £8 million.
Rooney caused controversy after being chosen to appear in British Vogue. Editor Alexandra Shulman
Alexandra Shulman
Alexandra Shulman, OBE , is the editor of the British edition of Vogue. She is one of the country's most oft-quoted voices on fashion trends. She took the helm of Vogue in 1992, presiding over a circulation increase to 200,000 and a higher profile for the publication...
called Coleen "beautiful" and praising her "brilliant sense of style".
In June 2010, Coleen struck a deal with Littlewoods, rumoured to be worth £2 million; she said of the deal: "The role is a perfect match in enabling me to select and wear my favourite styles as well as share my ideas on how to carry off the season's new trends."