Coleen McLoughlin

Coleen Rooney in Liverpool, Merseyside, England) is the wife of Manchester United F.C. and England football star Wayne Rooney. She was also one of the more prominent WAGs during the 2006 World Cup.

Early life

Coleen Mary Rooney was born to Tony, who was a bricklayer and ran a boxing club, and Colette, who was a nursery nurse. She is one of four children. Coleen is the oldest, followed by her brothers Joe and Anthony and then her adopted sister Rosie, who has been diagnosed with Rett Syndrome. She met Wayne Rooney when she was 12 and when they lived in the same Liverpool suburb of Croxteth. They supposedly began a relationship at the age of 16, when in their final year of secondary school.

Wayne's mother, Jeanette, worked as a part-time cleaner at St John Bosco, the Catholic school Coleen attended.

Rooney took Coleen to the cinema to see Austin Powers 2 on their first date.

McLoughlin left school with 11 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. Life with Wayne Rooney

Rooney proposed to Coleen on the forecourt of a BP garage in October 2003 when she was 17, presenting her with a ?46,500 diamond engagement ring. Later that year, she left school before completing her A-levels because she landed a small part in Hollyoaks, the Merseyside television soap. “I was getting offered acting parts and I couldn’t take them because of my school work,” she said. The couple, dubbed Wayleen, moved into a new ?1.3m mansion in nearby Formby. They now live in a ?3.5 million mansion in Prestbury, Cheshire, complete with a cinema, gym and games room and American diner-themed kitchen. It also has seven plasma screen TVs and a ?30,000 state-of-the-art security system.

Coleen has always been very supportive of Wayne, even when he was found visiting prostitutes.

Their wedding took place in Portofino, Italy on 12 June 2008