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Coleen McLoughlin isn’t just Wayne Rooney’s fiancé. She’s using her sudden brush with fame to make the most of her love of clothes – as the face of George at Asda.
Forget everything you’ve ever read about celebrities looking totally different in the flesh from their photographs: Coleen McLoughlin looks exactly the same. Smooth tan skin, butterscotch hair in a ponytail and white teeth – she wouldn’t look out of place in a fifth-year netball team. This rude healthiness, which she’s never managed to hide behind oversize Mukluk boots and neon Juicy Couture tracksuits, is part of her appeal. She somehow feels within reach, a cheery antidote to the savage chic of some tabloid darlings.

But what you don’t get of Coleen from those paparazzi snaps is her voice. It sums her up: a warm Liverpool lilt, punctuated regularly with a throaty Scouse “erm,” that suggests a friendliness and also that she’s down to earth and utterly comfortable in her own skin. “I’ve always been very secure and confident in myself, even when I was a schoolgirl in Liverpool,” she says.

These qualities have taken her a long way. The 20-year-old is forging a career away from her hot-headed footballer fiancé’s side. She writes a column for Closer magazine and has a book in the pipeline – but it’s in the fashion stakes that she’s really emerging as a force in her own right. With a Vogue photo shoot and a Marie Claire cover under her belt, her more colourful, much-publicised fashion mistakes have been replaced with a sleek, elegant look. To cement her rise into the fashion firmament, this autumn she’s the new face of the “Must Have” range by George at Asda.

It’s an inspired choice. Not only is Coleen best known for loving clothes (and shopping for them), but her aura of accessibility makes her perfect to advertise a range that does catwalk looks at supermarket prices. “It was our local supermarket. We all always did the weekly shop there and I had bought lots from George when I was a kid, so me mam’s made up.”

Although Coleen seems refreshingly normal, the whole PR engine surrounding her is not. After I arrive, I’m kept in a different room as the shoot takes place, so that I don’t put her off. When we do speak, hours later, her fierce, protective senior publicist sits in on the interview, rebutting any questions about Wayne or WAGs with a firm, “Not going there.”

Despite the experimentation, a consistent look does emerge: an unabashedly coiffed, label-heavy northern chic that she’s proud to admit to. “Girls in the North do dress very differently from those in the south. The style in Liverpool is just unbelievable. If you walk through the town centre on a Saturday afternoon you’ll see so many lovely girls. I’ve known people who come up from London and go out in their jeans and feel really out of place. We’ve got the ‘eye’ up North. No matter how little money you have, you can still look fabulous.” Lots of money can’t do any harm, of course – occasional comments make you realise that she really is shopping in a different league to the rest of us. When I ask her about trips abroad, she says that she enjoys shopping in different cities but that “Prada is the same everywhere”. And her favourite fashion moment may have been wearing a vintage dress to the National Television Awards, but it was the accessories that made it. “Chopard lent me nearly a million pounds of jewellery and I had a security guard with me for the whole night, so that made me feel that bit more special. The earrings weighed half a pound alone – I don’t know why they didn’t fly off, we were dancing around so much.”

Coleen obviously adores glamour, but says, “I’m more of a girlie girl than a sexy girl.” She isn’t really one for make-up, eschewing even mascara in the day. And contrary to WAG lore, she never uses fake tan. “I’m just lucky to get a really good colour after a week in the sun.” Her only concession to the footballer’s wife stereotype is the long extensions that snake down her back, but even then, she admits to getting a bit of home help. “Wayne’s cousin is really good, she does my hair sometimes.” This no-nonsense approach extends to her body image as much as personal grooming.

http://www.women.timesonline.co.uk/

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COLEEN SO HAPPY WITH PSYCHIC READING

COLEEN McLOUGHLIN has a rosy future with fiance WAYNE ROONEY - it's in the stars.

Scouser Coleen got a personal reading from psychic HONOR BROXAP last week.

And judging by her reaction, wedding bells will be ringing out soon - with several little Roos to follow. Or maybe the Tarot cards were just predicting a new Fendi handbag!

One onlooker at London's trendy Pangaea club revealed: "They were nose to nose for ages and Coleen was entranced by what Honor was saying.

"At one point Coleen jumped up and squealed before dashing over to her friend who was in the VIP area."

The friend was Wayne's cousin CLAIRE, who had her own reading later.

Shopaholic Coleen and Man U and England ace Wayne, both 20, got engaged two years ago. And they've made no secret of their desire to start a family.

Honor told ViP she asked to speak to Coleen after getting messages from the spirit world for her.

She said: "Coleen's a delightful young lady. I like her energy very much."

She wouldn't reveal details. But our Gypsy Rose Debbie and Psychic Alice have their own forecast for Coleen...

WE see a tall dark stranger entering your life. But his nose is bleeding so maybe Wayne has belted him.

YOU will be seen carrying a new handbag that no-one else has got - not even your Poshest rival.

SOMEONE called George will make you very rich. That Asda be good news.

EURO due for a trip to Austria. We hear cheers - from Viennese shopkeepers.

WAYNE sees red when Chelsea top the Premiership in 2007 and 2008. Ah well, you can still go to Topshop's sale.

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WAYNE ROONEY insists he would never dive — because he is too honest.

The Manchester United and England striker underlined his determination to stay on his feet during games — even if a growing number of players around him are dropping like flies.

He said: “I’d never dive. I’d like to think of myself as an honest player. That’s the way I play. I don’t like diving, football doesn’t need it.”

Roo is itching to get back on England duty this weekend after his suspension for the red card he received at the World Cup against Portugal.

Rooney, 20, admits that dismissal brought tears to his eyes.

He told FourFourTwo magazine: “It was a horrible moment and a horrible night.

"Personally, I felt I’d let the players down. I was sad and depressed rather than angry. The players told me not to worry, that it wasn’t my fault.

“I appreciated that. And that’s when I felt a few tears in my eyes. I don’t cry often — and I hadn’t cried when I’d been sent off.”

But Rooney has vowed to keep playing the same, combative way.

He added: “I play the game the way I see it and if that means going in for a tackle then I’ll do it.”

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STEVE McCLAREN has promised to put the smile back on Wayne Rooney’s face.

The England boss singled out the Manchester United striker for a private word after training yesterday.

He told Roo to start enjoying his football again — beginning with Saturday’s Euro 2008 clash with Macedonia at Old Trafford.

An England insider said: “The manager knows Wazza has been a bit down. He put his arm around him and assured him it will all come good and that England will put the smile back on his face.

“He and Peter Crouch will start on Saturday and the team will practise feeding the ball to Wazza in scoring positions — and we all know he will hit the net sooner rather than later.”

Rooney, 20, has not scored since the opening game of the Premiership season and will return to the England team after serving a suspension for his red card against Portugal in the World Cup finals.

McClaren is aware relations between his young superstar and the FA have been fraught since they upheld his ban for being sent off in a pre-season friendly.

The England boss is determined to repair any damage and told Rooney the team will practise getting the ball to him over Crouch.

McClaren said: “We need to get Wayne into positions where he can score goals and create more and get better service into the final third.”

Crouch’s record of 11 goals in 10 appearances sparked a debate about whether he and Rooney were a suitable partnership.

It is two years since Rooney scored a competitive international goal, going back to the victory against Croatia at Euro 2004.

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£130,000 Roodster for Car-leen
WAYNE Rooney yesterday treated fiancée Coleen McLoughlin to a new motor — a £130,000 Bentley Continental GTC.

The England ace, 20, broke off from preparing for today’s match against Macedonia for a test drive in the 195mph roadster — in his SOCKS.

Coleen yesterday picking up the car

He returned to the team’s Manchester hotel and left the keys behind for Coleen, 20.

She arrived five minutes later, picked up the bunch and drove off.

An onlooker said: “She was grinning from ear to ear.”

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Rooney can Ferg-et MTV bash
IT comes as no surprise, but WAYNE ROONEY won’t be going to the MTV Music Awards next month.

P Diddy ... no scouse in da house

The Man U striker had been invited to the do in Copenhagen, along with fellow team-mate RIO FERDINAND, by new pal P DIDDY.

Despite being in Denmark the day before for a Champions League game, United boss ALEX FERGUSON has told them they are not allowed to go — just as I predicted.

The Diddyman had even promised to attend his first-ever football match to watch his buddies play FC Copenhagen on November 1.

The following night the threesome had made plans to go to the awards bash — hosted by none other than JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE.

The ban is going to be a huge blow to Rooney as he’s a huge hip-hop fan and was desperate to go.

He still hasn’t cashed in on his trip to New York to party with the rapper and stay at his mansion.

He bid for the prize at POSH and BECKS’ World Cup summer party.

I can’t help thinking I told you so on this one, though.

Fergie has made no secret of the fact he doesn’t like his players living the showbiz lifestyle.

And I’m sure Becks would be only too happy to vouch for me on this one . . .

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EXCLUSIVE: ROOD HOG
Wayne runs truck off road in Aston Martin
WAYNE Rooney ran a trucker off the road in his 196mph Aston Martin and drove on without checking whether he had caused an accident.

The England and Manchester United ace was allegedly driving his £166,000 car on the wrong side with his head down, forcing lorry driver Kevin Brough to swerve into a ditch.

But the star's WAZ 8 numberplate was traced - and he has made up to Kevin with a £2,600 cheque for damage to the 7.5 ton TNT truck and a signed Man Utd shirt for his son.

Self-employed delivery man Kevin, 35, said: "Whoever it was behind the wheel was driving like an idiot.

"I didn't realise at the time it was Wayne. I got ridden off the road and I went to the police. They confirmed in a way the day after it was somebody pretty famous.

"Then it got passed on to Wayne's solicitors. I thought he didn't stop for security reasons - that's what I would think.

"But he was coming up the road not looking. He was looking at his air conditioning or his radio or something.

"All of a sudden he must have looked up and seen me. I swerved and he obviously swerved and carried on. He must have seen me run off the road.

"He has settled the matter in full and offered a signed United shirt for my lad."

Wayne's fiance Coleen McLoughlin bought him the silver Aston Martin Vanquish as a pre-World Cup gift.

The near-miss happened in Prestbury, Cheshire, two months ago, close to the star's new mansion home.

Wayne phoned Kevin, of Macclesfield, to apologise but his spokesman made no comment. He has had three driving convictions overturned after hiring lawyer Nick "Mr Loophole" Freeman.

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ASDA price is not good enough as Coleen shops at M&S
She has a £1.5 million contract to be the face of George at Asda. But as a self confessed shopaholic, it appears Coleen McLoughlin can't help but check out the competition.
Wayne Rooney's fiancee was spotted loading up the boot of her car with what suspiciously looked like a bag of clothing from Marks and Spencer.

The 20-year-old, who was dressed in jeans and a grey polar necked jumper, spent 25 minutes in the store close to the couple's £3 million home in Prestbury, Cheshire.

One shopper said: "It would be fine if she was shopping for food in there but its weird to see her come out with a bag of clothes when she advertises Asda".

Miss McLoughlin was announced as the face of Asda's new Must Have range for George earlier this year.

Wearing a £10 khaki shirt dress she said she was 'really excited' to have been chosen to promote the line.

In August of this year she filmed an advert for the supermarket when she was pictured walking through the streets of Lisbon in Portugal loaded down with George bags.

And yesterday in her magazine column she described how she helped a competition winner with an incurable condition go on a shopping spree around a new Asda Living store she opened in Altrincham.

Miss McLoughlin, who also has deals with Nike, LG mobile phone and HarperCollins, is renowned for her love of shopping and is regularly seen laden down with designer bags.

She was named the British Retail Consortium shopper of the year in 2005.

The year before she was stopped by custom officials at Manchester Airport for failing to declare her purchases from a £15,000 spending spree in New York.

Miss McLoughlin is not the first celebrity to be caught shopping in a rival store.

Previously the Daily Mail told how Jamie Oliver's wife Jools chose to buy her groceries in Waitrose despite her husband's high profile £250,000 a year deal with Sainsbury.

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Bilic: Blame FA for Rooney woe

CROATIA boss Slaven Bilic says Wayne Rooney is a striker in crisis — and blames the FA.

The Manchester United star, 20, has not scored a competitive goal for his country since England last played the Croats at Euro 2004.

And Bilic said: “Rooney is in crisis because his career lacks consistency and continuity.

“He is a great talent but it seems that he’s either injured or being punished by the English FA.

"Maybe he’s not playing to his maximum at the moment but don’t forget that he suffered a serious injury last season and was not really ready for the World Cup.

“Every time he gets into the swing it seems that he stops again.”

Rooney has not scored for United since August 20 and has struggled to recapture his form since serving a three-match ban for a pre-season red card in Amsterdam.

He also missed England’s first three games of the season after his World Cup red card against Portugal in Germany.

Bilic said: “It is not easy to be Wayne Rooney at the moment because of all the attention he’s getting. His anger is one of his great assets but he needs to control it.

“People in Croatia are saying we should make him lose his temper but we’re not a dirty team and we won’t do that.”

Defender Robert Kovac added: “Provocation is not fair or sportsmanlike. I will just be better than him on the field.”

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Time to pray for Wayne

October 11, 2006

WAYNE ROONEY might have broad shoulders – but the entire nation’s hopes will be resting on them tonight when England take on Croatia in a Euro qualifier.

After his recent loss of form and below-par performance in England’s dire 0-0 draw against Macedonia on Saturday, the Man Utd striker’s doubters are circling like vultures.

But we know great players rise to the occasion. Here, Sun man MARTIN PHILLIPS offers Wayne a twist on Rudyard Kipling’s inspirational poem If, while motivational stars offer words of support.

Colonel Tim Collins, famous for his rousing eve-of-battle speech to troops in Iraq, proclaimed: “Wayne needs to rise above the self and play for the country.”

We also focus on some of Roo’s greatest moments.

IF ...
(by Roodyard Kipling)

If you can keep possession when all about you

Are losing it and blaming it on you;

If you can trust your world-class skill when even the gaffer doubts you,

But make allowance for his tactical decisions;

If you can wait patiently for that killer pass, and not get tired of running,

Or being fouled, don’t react to fouls,

Or being left isolated by rubbish service, don’t waste your own passes,

And yet don’t look too frustrated, nor talk abusively to the ref;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To battle on until the final whistle’s gone

And fill the unforgiving match

With ninety minutes’ worth of distance run

If you can dream — and then make our dreams come true;

If you can think with lightning speed — and shoot with deadly aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And leave Disaster nutmegged in your wake;

Yours is the victory, and all the praise that goes with it,

And — which is more — you’ll be quality, my son!

Wayne's wonders

Just to remind you, here are ten Wayne wonder goals.

OCT 19, 2002: Wayne’s first Premiership strike, aged 16. A 25-yard shot in the last minute for Everton to beat Arsenal.

MARCH 23, 2003: Fourth Premiership goal was another beauty for Everton against Arsenal, though his side lost 2-1.

SEPT 6, 2003: First senior England strike, in Macedonia, delivered 2-1 win and made Wayne youngest-ever Three Lions goalscorer at 17 years and 317 days.

JUNE 17, 2004: Header against Switzerland in Euro 2004 set England on their way to the next stages and made him the youngest-ever scorer in Euro championships.

JUNE 21, 2004: Double against Croatia earned England a Euro quarter-finals place and made Wayne a world star.

SEPT 28, 2004: His first Champions League game for new team Man United. He responded with a stunning hat-trick against Fenebahce in a crushing 6-2 victory.

OCT 24, 2004: Won penalty and scored second goal to beat Arsenal 2-0 and end their 49-game unbeaten run.

APR 24, 2005: Stunning winner against Newcastle on the day he was named PFA Young Player Of The Year.

FEB 26, 2006: Wayne scored two as United beat Wigan 4-0 to win the Carling Cup Final.

AUG 21, 2006: Scored two, forced an own goal and set up Ronaldo as United beat Fulham 5-1 on season’s first day.

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Rooney accused of aiming V-sign at fans
Wayne Rooney is at the centre of a new storm after he directed obscene gestures towards an England supporter following the 2-0 defeat in Croatia.

The Manchester United striker reacted after angry England fans hurled abuse at the players as they walked to the team bus.

But a source close to Rooney claimed that he only reacted after an England supporter shouted from a balcony overlooking the team bus: "You f****** fat bastard, why don't you show some pride when you shirt." - and then unzipped his flies and threatened to urinate on Rooney.

England fan Mark Lister, from Doncaster, wrote on the FA website: "I saw Rooney flick the 'v's' at us.

"However, in his defence he came off the coach and was prepared to listen to what some of the England fans said about us following the team around the world and getting nothing back. Rooney's reply was 'you come and play then', which I don't think was said in a negative way."

Rooney denies making obsence gestures but his PR adviser Ian Monk said: "Any gesture that Wayne may have made was directed at one England fan whose behaviour towards them appalled the other England players who saw it and horrified the rest of the England fans.

The FA have confirmed they have complained to UEFA after police baton-charged innocent fans outside the ground.

Ashley Cole, who was injured on Wednesday has fluid around an ankle joint. He will miss Chelsea's visit to Reading on Saturday but should be fit for the Champions League clash against Barcelona on Wednesday.

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X FACTOR’S Eton Road have celeb backing from Wayne Rooney and Coleen McLoughlin.

Her brother Joe, 18, is mates with the band and she had dance classes with Anthony. Coleen, 20, saidin Closer magazine: “Wayne’s mum and dad live near the Eton Road in Liverpool. I know a few of the lads so I’ll back them and fellow Liverpudlian Ray.”

Coleen also told how Wayne has brought her a new black Bentley which is curently on order. she said that its a treat for her and also a Christmas present from Wayne. She is selling her Land Rover, which she made a point of mentioning, isn't as expensive as her new car!

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Look what i got Roo!

SHOPAHOLIC Coleen McLoughlin has REALLY gone to town — for fiancé Wayne Rooney’s 21st birthday today.

We spotted big-spender Coleen, 20, laden with giant carrier bags as she splashed out tens of thousands on gifts for the striker’s coming of age.

As minders helped load them into her car last week, she beg-ged our photographer: “These are for Wayne’s birthday. Please don’t use the pictures beforehand or it’ll ruin the surprise.”

Now Wayne’s big day is here, we can reveal what glittering goodies he was believed to be getting when he woke up.

Coleen told pals she was treating him to a £30,000 JACOBS & CO WATCH. These diamond-encrusted timepieces are a huge hit with celebs including Madonna, David Beckham and Bono. Coleen also revealed she planned to get Man United ace Wayne a £15,000 GOLF SIMULATOR system, so he can play a round at the world’s top courses from the comfort of their £3.5million mansion in Prestbury, Cheshire.

Coleen made a secret trip to a LOUIS VUITTON LUGGAGE store in Manchester. It is believed she bought the star — who will spearhead England’s attack against Israel in their next Euro 2008 qualifier — a specially-made £5,000 bag with “lots of gold” on it.

She was also toying with the idea of getting him a GUITAR, signed by a top musician.

And there were clearly goodies from top department store Selfridges in Manchester — since those were the distinctive large yellow bags weighing her down last week.

A source close to the couple said: “Coleen has come up with loads of ideas for presents over the last six months, including a golf simulator and a watch.

“There was mention of a signed guitar, but nobody knows for sure what her final choices were. She didn’t want to let the cat out of the bag before the birthday.”

The pair plan a quiet celebration tonight. The source added: “Wayne didn’t want a big fuss made.

“He likes parties, but doesn’t really like being the centre of attention. So they’re just going to celebrate with family and friends — very low-key.”

A spokesman for the couple said: “Wayne’s birthday is a private matter. There’s no comment.”

NOW Wayne is 21 he is officially old enough to do a host of things — such as adopt a child and become an MP.
He can also supervise a learner driver — and get into trendy London nightspot Funky Buddha on Friday and Saturday nights.

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Rival strikers in same Roo-m!
October 25, 2006

MAN Utd star Wayne Rooney celebrated his 21st birthday last night with an arch rival LIVERPOOL striker.

Wayne was out for a family meal and found himself in the same Chinese restaurant in Manchester as Craig Bellamy.

But Rooney smiled and joked with the fiery Welshman, 27 - just 48 hours after United had beaten Liverpool 2-0.

Yesterday The Sun revealed how Roo’s girlfriend Coleen, 20, had blown more than £50,000 on a selection of fabulous prezzies for her fella.

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You're such a cheap date, Diddy

October 25, 2006

A DATE with P DIDDY, WAYNE ROONEY and RIO FERDINAND went for a bargain basement price of £5,000 at a charity auction.

The lucky mystery punter snapped up the prize at a celebrity bash to raise money for seven-year-old leukaemia sufferer Keiton Knight.

It was a snip considering Rooney paid £150,000 for a night with Puff at POSH and BECKS’ World Cup charity ball in the summer.

JERMAIN DEFOE put his recent bite scandal behind him to pay £3,000 for a Jamaican shirt at the bash at London’s Hammersmith Palais.

And Manchester United player RIO FERDINAND totted up the fund with a £400,000 donation on Monday night to help the youngster go to the United States for a specialised transplant.

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WAG Coleen is inspired by poor but 'happy' Africans
It seems Coleen McLoughlin is happiest when satiating her prodigious thirst for the latest deluxe item.

So her belief the poverty-stricken around the world, who live barren lives without the means to buy even basic necessities seem 'happy', is a little perplexing to say the least.

The 20-year-old fiancee of multimillionaire Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney is set to raise some eyebrows with her extraordinary statements.

Praising Madonna for her controversial adoption of Malawi-born 13 month-year-old David Banda, she writes: "Little David will probably have a much safer life over here and loads more opportunities."

Miss McLoughlin also tells how she finds the lives of those in places 'like Africa' heartwarming.

She states: "I find it so inspiring when you see people from poorer countries on TV- they just seem so happy with their lives, despite their lack of material things."

At least Miss McLoughlin admits she needs to learn more about poorer parts of the world.

She states: "In the future I plan to visit somewhere like Africa to find out more about their way of life."

But some may suspect she would not be so willing to trade in her luxurious lifestyle for the barren life of the average African peasant.

Because the 20-year-old, who in a one hour shopping spree in Baden Baden this year spent a total of £55,000 with the other five Wags, has been keen to build an extremely lucrative career of her own.

Miss McLoughlin, who makes these comments in her latest Closer magazine column, recently signed a book deal worth £2 million.

As well as a contract with Nike to promote a range of women's sportswear, named Nike C, she closed a £3 million deal earlier this year to model for Asda with partner Wayne Rooney.

Although Mr Rooney was unceremoniously dropped from the campaign in July this year, Asda bosses obviously valued his pretty fiancee's marketability, and kept her on.

She stands to make £1.5 million from the campaign.

Together the couple are worth £20 million and assets include a £4 million Cheshire home (nicknamed Chav Towers) which boasts a £13,000 gym and cinema.

Miss McLoughlin does support a number of humanitarian causes.

Her publicist said: "The causes she supports include Claire House, a hospice for terminally ill children in Liverpool, Alder Hay, a Liverpool-based NHS hospital trust, the Association of Children's Hospices, and Jeans for Genes, an ongoing appeal organised by various charities where people are sponsored to wear jeans, donating £1 to £2 to help support children with genetic disorders."

Her publicist refused to comment on whether Miss McLoughlin donates money to the causes that interest her.

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Coleen splashes out for Rooney's 21st birthday

Piling bags into her car, this was just not any shopping trip for WAG Coleen McLoughlin.

The fiancée of Man United star Wayne Rooney was stocking up with gifts for his 21st birthday.

Gallery: See what Coleen bought for Wayne here

The soccer ace is now officially old enough to go clubbing, although he has been somewhat of a regular fixture at nightclubs since he became one of the world's top footballers.

Coleen, 20, also plans to mark the special occasion with a star-studded shrine to Wayne's favourite stars.

Money obviously not being an issue to the young millionaires, Coleen, 20, is said to have wanted to give Ronney an invaluable gift.

The Hall of Fame collection is said to include contributions from boxing star Joe Calzaghe, 34, rock legends U2, boyband Blue and former boxer Mike Tyson.

There is also a cheeky signed picture of Robbie Williams' bare bottom.

A source told the Daily Star: "She was desperate to get Wayne something unusual, something that even with all his riches he couldn't buy. So she came up with the idea of getting other sporting starts to contribute pictures or memorabilia."

However, there is also those expensive gifts Coleen splashed out on in Manchester's top department store Selfridges.

They include a £30,000 diamond encrusted Jacobs & Co watch, the pride of every celebrity footballer, a £15,000 golf simulation system and another £30,000 on Louis Vuitton luggage - believed to include a specially made £5,000 bag with "lots of gold" on it.

She was also toying with the idea of getting him a guitar signed by a top musician.

Rooney, already celebrating his side’s weekend 2-0 win over rivals Liverpool, will be having a quiet celebration tonight.

A source said: "Wayne did not want a big fuss. He likes parties, but doesn’t really like the attention. So they are going to celebrate with family and friends."

Here’s hoping the celebration won’t be as eventful as Coleen’s 18th birthday party in 2004.

The event, at a Liverpool hotel, allegedly ended in a brawl between relatives when the free bar ended.

Tempers became so frayed that police were called.

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Col's Fashion Faux Pas

Oh dear, oh dear, just when we thought Coleen McLoughlin had finally found style, out pops a blast from the past.

Wayne Rooney's fiancee has been spotted out and about wearing her trusty Juicy tracksuit.

We thought they were consigned to history, but Col just can't get enough of those comfy velour jogging pants and matching top.

In Coleen's early fame days she became known for her love of the designer running kit.

Every time she stepped out she was snapped in a different colour - we were beginning to wonder if she had bought a job lot.

Then almost overnight she was transformed and soon became a follower of high fashion.

Now we don't want to knock Col too much because every girl knows her best friend is her tracksuit.

But she should take a stylish leaf out of the Sky Showbiz Girls' book and only adopt the trackie once safely at home.

It's not for going out of doors in.

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Coleen praised for hospice campaign work

Shopping queen Coleen McLoughlin has been praised by the Government for championing the role of children's hospices.

Miss McLoughlin presented a Tonight With Trevor McDonald report last May on the funding crisis which leaves many hospices facing cuts or closures.

The 20-year-old fiancee of England footballer Wayne Rooney has an adopted sister, Rosie, who receives respite care at a Merseyside hospice.

Following broadcast of the report, the Prime Minister pledged an extra £27m over three years for the UK's 34 children's hospices, and agreed to launch an independent review into their future funding.

In a new Tonight with Trevor McDonald report, broadcast at 8pm today on ITV1, Care Services Minister Ivan Lewis heaps praise on Miss McLoughlin for highlighting the issue.

He said: "I applaud Coleen's work in this area, I think it's really important. I think she cares passionately about it."

"That fact that she cares enough to focus on it is to her credit and she can only be of assistance to all of us who want to see palliative care improved in this country."

"There is nothing more important than the way we look after and care for people who are going through this experience."

Miss McLoughlin said: "The Government are reviewing Children's Hospice funding and their conclusions are due at the end of the year. I do hope they take it seriously."

Her sister Rosie, eight, suffers from rare genetic disorder Retts Syndrome and requires 24-hour care.

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Why Coleen is the exception to the Wag rule

In desperate Footballers' Wives at the weekend, Five asked one of those deep philosophical questions that, perhaps second to climate change, is going to dominate the 21st century.

"Footballers' wives might live in palaces, drive top of the range cars and holiday in exclusive resorts," the narrator said. "But are they really happy?"

It will come as no surprise to anyone who missed this flesh-exposing and flesh-crawling investigation to learn that the answer was pretty much "Yes".

Kind hearted: Coleen has helped raise money for England's children hospices with reports for the 'Tonight' programme

Ask an ex-wife or an ex-girlfriend the same question, however, and — believe it or not — the answer is somewhat different.

Very often "No". It seems that an ex-WAG is not at all happy when jilted or divorced, thrown out of her mansion, downgraded to a Ford Fiesta and reduced to spending away days in Bognor Regis.

Desperate Footballers' Ex-Wives, as it should have been called, found a bunch of ex-WAGS only too happy to say how unhappy they were.

For a fee, one suspects, or at the very least some boob exposure in the hope of resurrecting a career in what I am given to understand is known as glamour modelling.

What's a girl to do in such circumstances but return to Page 3 or sell a story to a tabloid revealing that her hubby was, like Jimmy Clitheroe, small in the trouser department, able to turn on only the television?

Some cheap and easy shots were aimed at Melanie Slade, the girlfriend of Theo Walcott, and Wayne Rooney's fiancee, Coleen McLoughlin.

Melanie, it appears, compounded studying for A levels with the more heinous crime of going out wearing a T-shirt and jeans.

Coleen was ridiculed for what she used to wear and for buying four pairs of shoes at a single fitting. The sheer profligacy.

Over on ITV1 the same evening, Coleen delivered her second report for Sir Trevor McDonald's Tonight programme.

This footballer's fiancee was desperate all right, desperate to expose the funding crisis in the 34 children's hospices in England.

This is a subject apparently closer to her heart than shopping, not least because her eight-year-old adopted sister, Rosy, suffers from a genetic neurological disorder and often requires the 24-hour care provided by a hospice.

Money has poured in since her first report. Ivan Lewis, the Minister of Care Services, paid tribute to Coleen.

The government promised £27million over three years and an independent review. A result. More results are needed.

The £27m accounts for only 10 per cent of yearly funding.

As a fully paid up member of the cynics I would normally snipe at this public relations exercise, this latest attempt to continue the re-invention of Coleen. Hang about, though, let's be sensible.

Never mind that Coleen can shop for England better than her fiancee can play for England, judging by Rooney's recent international performances.

Let her empty a Jimmy Shoo factory if she uses her celebrity to raise money for a good cause.

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Rejuvenated Rooney delights Ferguson

In the lead up to Sir Alex Ferguson's 20th anniversary at Manchester United a week today, the great manager will be paid some predictably generous and well-deserved tributes.

But there will be no more fitting acknowledgement made to two decades of hard work at Old Trafford than was presented by his current team at the Reebok Stadium on Saturday.

I have been covering Manchester United games for five years and I have not witnessed a finer Premiership display than the one that tore Bolton asunder in front of their own aghast supporters this weekend.

Ferguson himself believed it to be the 'best for two or three years, or maybe even longer' while the vanquished Bolton manager Sam Allardyce could not remember his team being beaten so soundly on their own pitch.

Allardyce had described the Reebok as a "fortress" in the run-up to the match. It was a fair point, given that his team had not conceded a goal there all season.

Well, now it is a fortress with its walls scaled, its protectors slain and its ramparts ablaze. For the first 25 minutes on Saturday, United's football was astonishing in its speed, its vitality, its energy and its sheer ruthlessness.

After 16 minutes United were two goals to the good. The scoreline could have been treble that. All that Ferguson has been striving to achieve for 20 years was on offer here. Beautiful, clinical, artistic football played by some of the finest British players the modern game has to offer.

Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Wayne Rooney and even Michael Carrick strode across the Reebok with the arrogance and confidence of men in complete control of their art.

At times it was a privilege to watch. Rooney, of course, receives the banner headlines. A hat-trick to confirm his return from a spell of moderate form and further proof that the 21-year-old remains the best this country has to offer.

But this was a performance built on the foundations of hard work, unity and selflessness that Ferguson sought to lay as soon as he arrived in Manchester from north-east Scotland on November 6, 1986.

Ferguson beamed like a schoolboy from the directors' box while Allardyce chewed harder and harder on his gum. The Bolton manager was as helpless as he will ever be.

"We have been given a lesson, there is no doubt about that," said Allardyce afterwards.

"In the first 25 minutes it would have been difficult for anybody in the world to live with them."

Rooney scored two terrific goals in the first 16 minutes, although the move of the match was perhaps the one that saw six passes release Patrice Evra clear on goal, only to be thwarted by Jussi Jaaskelainen in the sixth minute. Evra, it should be remembered, is the United left back.

There were other opportunities for United that were not taken during a first half that they dominated, and, although Bolton rallied for 20 minutes after the interval, stout performances from central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic ensured that there was to be no comeback.

Defensive mistakes then allowed Cristiano Ronaldo and Rooney to score late on and the sacking of the Reebok was complete.

Rooney said: "It was a big day for us and we are really proud and happy with the performance.

"The first 20 minutes or so is probably the best we've played all season. We opened Bolton up and played behind them and made a lot of chances.

"It was a brilliant feeling when the ball hit the back of the net for my first goal. There was just a feeling of great relief."

United head out to Denmark tomorrow for the Champions League fixture with FC Copenhagen on Wednesday. Victory there will secure qualification for the knockout stage with two matches to spare.

Things are - it must be said - quite different from a year ago, when United ended October 13 points behind Chelsea and on their way out of Europe.

All that was left on Saturday was for Allardyce to pay tribute to his friend and rival as he looks forward to his 20th anniversary celebrations.

"I think Sir Alex sets the standards by the fact that he changes with the times, realises what is coming next and moves his club forward as quickly as he possibly can," said Allardyce.

"There is so much pressure on the four boys at the top. They have to compete on all fronts every year.

"But look at him. He looks 55. I don't see why he can't keep going for years yet. He's made Manchester United and how the hell are they going to replace him?"

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Now Coleen is the Diet Coke queen

Coleen McLoughlin is to become the face of Diet Coke in a six-figure deal which follows her fiance Wayne Rooney's signing as the face of Coke Zero, a no-sugar version of original Coca-Cola.

Coleen, 20, and Rooney, 21, will appear on billboards together before Christmas.

"This is being seen as a major coup for Coke as it is the first company to get Wayne and Coleen to star in an advert together," said a source on the campaign.

"Until now they have always wanted to be seen as separate acquisitions."

Coleen's deal is to be announced officially later this month. Meanwhile, Rooney's £1million one-year deal is set for renewal.

The source added: "Because he has been so successful his contract is about to be made long term.

"She is young, pretty - and she happens to love Diet Coke. The idea of having Wayne and Coleen as the King and Queen of Coke was irresistible."

Just months after Asda signed up the Manchester United striker to advertise its wares, Coleen was signed as the face of its George fashion label and Must Have range in a £1.5million deal.

And soon after Nike signed Rooney, Coleen was paid £1.5million to promote the Nike C range for women.

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Wayne gets in Roo's Who

November 07, 2006

WAYNE Rooney has been given the ultimate accolade from high society — an entry in posh people’s guide Who’s Who.

The 21-year-old Manchester United star has been asked to submit details about himself for the 2007 edition of the biographical dictionary.

It is a huge honour for someone so young to feature in the book, which lists the world’s “noteworthy and influential individuals”.

Rooney will submit a short autobiography and a list of his “recreations”.

He isn’t allowed to mention fiancée Coleen McLoughlin, because Who’s Who only includes spouses.

A family pal said: “Wayne got a formal letter inviting him to submit an entry a few weeks ago.

“He was delighted. It’s an achievement at his age — the boy’s done good.

“Wayne has to fill out a questionnaire and decide what hobbies to list other than football.”

We have put together a suggestion, above, of how Wayne’s entry might look.

Footballers are usually only listed at the end of a top career or when they have received an honour such as an OBE or MBE.

David Beckham and Alan Shearer — both OBEs — are among the 32,000 entries, along with most of the 1966 World Cup winning squad.

A Who’s Who spokeswoman said she “could not possibly comment” on Wayne’s invitation. She said: “It is confidential.”

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Coleen: I'll fight on for little sis

Love ... Coleen and Rosie at hospital

By JULIE MOULT
November 08, 2006

WAYNE Rooney’s fiancée Coleen McLoughlin has opened her heart about her little sister who needs hospice care.

Coleen, 20, watched mum Colette and dad Tony exhaust themselves looking after adopted eight-year-old Rosie 24 hours a day.

So she knows it’s important they get a break knowing Rosie is being well looked after.

Read it all ... in Closer mag

She said: “I used to think that hospices were grim places where people went to die, but that was before Rosie started going to one and it became vitally important in my family’s life.”

Rosie has Rett syndrome. She can’t walk or talk and is fed through a tube.

She visits Claire House in Bebington on the Wirral.

“It’s a fantastic place and she loves it,” said Coleen, who has twice been on TV to speak for kids’ hospices as the Government — now reviewing funding — gives just five per cent.

Coleen said: “Having Rosie as a sister has made me more aware. There are so many families who’d benefit but the lack of funding limits how many kids can use the facilities. I’ll continue to do anything I can to support hospices.”

More than 250,000 Sun readers signed a petition seeking more cash for kids’ hospices. Go to thesun.co.uk/kids to learn more.

COLEEN’S full interview is in Closer magazine out today

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Police to quiz Rooney over nightclub bust-up with photographer

England striker Wayne Rooney is to be questioned by police investigating reports of a 5am brawl outside a nightclub, police said.

The 21-year-old Manchester United star will be interviewed by Greater Manchester Police over claims that a photographer was assaulted outside the club in Manchester city centre.

Rooney has not been arrested and the photographer did not require medical treatment, police said.

A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said the alleged incident took place outside Panacea nightclub last month.

He said: "An appointment will be made for a 21-year-old man to attend a Greater Manchester Police station to be questioned in connection with an incident on John Dalton Street on Sunday October 15."

He went on: "Shortly after 5.05am on October 15, police received a report that a man had been assaulted on John Dalton Street in Manchester city centre.

"The man did not require medical treatment. Inquiries are continuing into the incident."

United beat Wigan away on the Saturday afternoon. Rooney played in the match, but did not score.

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Coleen wows in Biba at Harvey Nichols

If it's good enough for Coleen McLoughlin, it's good enough for us here at Style.

So, when we heard Manchester's keenest shopper was taking a whole table at Harvey Nichols' exclusive autumn/ winter fashion event, how could we resist?

Donning our finest failsafe black outfits (it is in this winter as gothic makes a comeback, or at least that's our excuse), we went to mingle with some of the city's highest spenders at one of the season's most style-conscious evenings.

Amy Reubens and Lee BlackSure enough, Wayne Rooney's fiancée was in evidence, creating a stir in a gold Biba dress - as featured on our own Style cover back in September - and space age style handbag.

But as well as casting an eye over the trends on the catwalk, she was obviously keen to catch up with pals over the three-course dinner too, posing for our photographer with pal Leanne Brown (wife of United star Wes) and Leanne's mum.

Other celebs in evidence included Coronation Street stars Kate Ford (aka Tracy Barlow) and Ian Reddington (Weatherfield rocker Vernon Tomlin), and Cold Feet star John Thomson's wife Sam.

However, it wasn't just famous faces who turned out for the event, with many of the specially invited guests being regular customers at the designer store's personal shopping suite.

And they did their style advisers proud by proving visions of understated chic.

Then it was time to check out the hottest new looks with a funky fashion show, set up on a special catwalk in the Second Floor Restaurant.

Our favourite themes - Anglomania for an edgier take on tartan for the winter and Opulence for some killer eveningwear.

Now, we'll just have to wait and see if Coleen splashed out on the night. Perhaps she'll be sporting that big furry hat when the weather turns frosty.

Credit: http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/

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Coleen emulates Scarlett's class

Manchester United star Wayne Rooney's fiancee, Coleen, was dressed to the nines for the Christina Aguilera concert at Manchester's MEN Arena on Thursday night.

It was not the first time such a beehive effect was achieved among the stars this autumn, however. Actress Scarlett Johansson displayed a startlingly similar do at the Los Angeles premier of The Black Dahlia in September.

Perhaps Coleen was auditioning for a new part as Scarlett's stunt double?

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Now it's 'brand' Col and Roo

November 24, 2006

WAYNE Rooney and Coleen McLoughlin are to advertise Coca-Cola — in their first joint marketing campaign.

They will be seen swigging the drink in posters and magazines, in a sign that ad chiefs see them as rivals to Posh and Becks’ “Brand Beckham”.

England soccer ace Wayne, 21, will drink sugar-free Coke Zero — aimed at health-conscious men — while fiancée Coleen, 20, sips Diet Coke.

Wayne already has a five-year contract with the fizz firm. Now rising celeb Coleen has netted a short-term deal, with a view to it being extended.

It is understood they will feature in a huge poster at London’s Piccadilly Circus, before the ads go nationwide.

A source said: “This can be seen as the beginning of Wayne and Coleen’s commercial entity.

“Just like Posh and Becks, Coleen and Wayne come as a package — and a very profitable one.

“When Becks lost his place in the England squad, his marketability suffered. This is the beginning of the Wayne and Coleen era.”

WE recently reported that Wayne and Coleen faced a large cleaning bill because of mess caused by their dogs. We now know that no dogs live at Wayne and Coleen’s home and that our story was wrong. We apologise to them both.

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Wayne is Coleen's £100million man

Wayne Rooney and fiancee Coleen McLoughlin are set to outshine the Beckhams in the money stakes after the footballer secured a record-breaking £100million six year deal with Manchester United.

The huge contract makes Rooney, 21, the highest-paid player in British football history.

He will earn about £35million in salary alone - with the rest coming from a string of lucrative commercial deals which will run over the duration of his new contract.

The England striker has tie-ups with Nike, Asda, Coca-Cola and EA Sports.

Despite his youth, he has already struck a £5million deal with HarperCollins for a minimum of five books about his life.

Rooney and fiancee Coleen McLoughlin live in a £4million mansion in Prestbury, Cheshire.

Before last summer's World Cup, Rooney allegedly ran up £700,000 in gambling debts.

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Rooney's amazing £100m new deal

Wayne Rooney will earn up to £100 million over the next six years after signing a new contract with Manchester United which makes him the highest-paid player in British football history.

Rooney, 21, last night put pen to paper on a deal that will keep him at Old Trafford until 2012 and add £36m to his bank balance in salary alone.

Add to that his earnings from commercial endorsements, image rights and bonuses for United and England, and Rooney's income over the life of his new contract will hit the £100m mark.

He said: "I'm delighted. I've loved my time here and didn't have any hesitation signing."

News of Rooney's bumper deal will give United fans a massive boost ahead of today's crucial Premiership showdown with Chelsea, especially after the claim by the champions' chief executive, Peter Kenyon, that his club wanted to surpass United as the biggest in the world.

The contract, which replaces a deal due to end in 2010, instantly doubles Rooney's money at United. His £115,000-a-week salary now matches that of Rio Ferdinand, the highest-paid player at Old Trafford. But while Ferdinand's contract, which he signed in August 2005,was for four years, United have tied down Rooney for six.

Rooney already earns £6m a year from endorsement deals with Nike, Asda, Coca-Cola and EA Sports.

On top of that he has a £5m contract with publishers Harper-Collins for a minimum of five books about his life and can expect to earn millions more from image rights deals and bonuses with United and England.

His fiancee, Coleen McLoughlin, also earns up to £4m a year from commercial contracts.

Rooney added: "I have been looking to sign for a while and it's great for me and the club to finally get it over with. All the fans, players and staff have made me feel welcome since the day I signed. I'm looking to achieve a lot more. I want to win trophies. Hopefully,we can win the League this season and kick on from there."

Rooney also paid tribute to the influence of United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, saying: "The manager has played a big part in me wanting to agree a new deal. He is the best manager of all time."

Ferguson welcomed the news of Rooney's contract, saying: "Everyone is delighted and think the supporters will be, too. We're building a new team and Wayne is going to be one of the best players in the world — if he isn't already.We are going to get the best years of the boy."

Chelsea's Germany midfielder, Michael Ballack, is one of three Premiership players on £130,000 a week. But his three-year contract at Stamford Bridge is only half the length of Rooney's new deal.

From humble beginnings in a three bedroom council house in Liverpool, Rooney now lives with Coleen in a new £4m mansion in Prestbury, Cheshire.

But fame and fortune also have a downside. Before the World Cup, Rooney was alleged to have run up £700,000 in gambling debts and last week he was interviewed by police investigating claims that a photographer had been assaulted outside a Manchester nightclub.

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Coleen's £1.5m TV deal...to hand out fashion advice
Since Cilla Black left ITV in 2003, the channel has been without a queen of prime time Saturday night television.

But now it seems to have found an unlikely new candidate for the role.

Footballer Wayne Rooney's fiancee Coleen McLoughlin has managed to land her own prime time slot with ITV despite having virtually no presenting experience.

The channel and production company Endermol have been pursuing Miss McLoughlin for months with a bespoke make-over format in which she will give fashion and lifestyle tips to members of the public.

There will also be a chatshow and live entertainment element to the programme which is timed to air early next year to coincide with the launch of her new 'style bible' in the Spring.

Miss McLoughlin's salary is currently in negotiation but is likely to be around the £1.5 million mark.

The deal further swells Miss McLouglin's earnings to an extraordinary £7.5 million a year.

Ever since Cilla left ITV, the station has been desperate to find their new queen of Saturday night. Back in Cilla's Blind Date heyday in the mid-80s, 20 million viewers watched every week,' said a source.

Now ITV's primetime Saturday night crowd-puller is the X Factor which has an audience of around eight million. They can't help feeling that a format based around someone like Coleen who people can relate to in the same way as they did Cilla would be ratings gold.

ITV was particularly impressed with Coleen's presenting skills when she fronted Tonight With Trevor McDonald recently. They think she has that star quality while at the same time having absolutely no pretence.

In the past, ITV has tried out Cat Deeley in Stars In Their Eyes and Lisa Riley in You've Been Framed. They have been successful formats, but still haven't really soared.

For Miss McLoughlin - who grew up on a council estate in Croxteth, Liverpool - the move signals her overtaking Victoria Beckham in the footballers' wives stakes.

Mrs Beckham has long wanted her own primetime television show, but has never been a natural in front of the cameras and audiences do not warm to her in the same way.

Indeed she is currently tying to get her own fashion TV show in America with the help of former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller.

Coleen and Wayne are now for the first time being marketed as a couple, and it is interesting to note that that development has come just as Brand Beckham is suffering.

Wayne and Coleen have also just landed their first dual advertising deal with Coca-Cola.

Coleen is to become the face of Diet Coke in a six-figure deal which follows her fiance Wayne Rooney's signing as the face of Coke Zero, a no-sugar version of original Coca-Cola.The pair will appear on billboards together before Christmas.

Coleen is also the £500,000 face of the LG 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 that style bible and a £1.5 million deal to be the face of Asda.

In addition, she was paid £250,000 to make a fitness DVD and £150,000 to make a documentary about her upbringing called Coleen's Secrets.

Finally, she gets also £70,000-a-year to write a column for Closer magazine in which she reveals such inner thoughts as:"I find it so inspiring when you see people from poorer countries on TV - they just seem so happy with their lives, despite their lack of material things."

Wayne on the other hand, earns £55,000 a week with Manchester United, and is estimated to be worth £20million.

And it seems that the money is coming in for showbusiness's new power couple faster than they can spend it.

A friend said last night: "They spent £3.5 million on a house in Prestbury, Cheshire where they would both live, but they hardly step foot in the place.

"They might stay one night a week, but prefer to stay at their parents' homes. They are homebirds at heart."

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Coleen's PR-ofit of £200,000

SOCCER hero Wayne Rooney’s girlfriend Coleen McLoughlin has pocketed £200,000 from her public relations firm — after critics wrote it off as a joke.

She set up Speed 9849 in March 2005 with her mum Colette.

When its first set of accounts were published in January it had just ONE POUND in the bank.

But canny Coleen, 20, who paid off a £130,000 loan last month, has now raked in £200,000 from the company after turn-over soared.

The figures are revealed in accounts for her firm which have been filed with Companies House.

A financial expert said: “The figures belie her image as always being in the shops.

“They show she is an astute businesswoman who is not letting money go to her head.

“The company is in a very healthy condition.”

Coleen and Man Utd star Wayne, 21, are also said to have sponsorship deals worth more than £6million.

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The making of the girl next door

Three years ago Coleen McLoughlin was a little-known 17-year-old. Now, after deals with Coke and ITV, she is worth £5m and has emerged as a shrewd businesswoman in her own right and a role model. So, why the sneering?

Peter Conrad
Sunday December 3, 2006
The Observer

A colleen is a girl - a generic specimen, an average sample of Irish youth. Garble the spelling, transfer the colleen to a Burnley council estate and then to a custom-built palazzo in Cheshire, and you have Coleen McLoughlin, the long-term, long-suffering, big-spending fiancee of Wayne Rooney.
Has something been lost in translation? Colleens are expected to stay in their villages, happily serving as domestic drudges. Coleen, however, flies to Malta for photo-shoots and, when at home, commutes between boutiques in a range of vehicles that includes a Cadillac Escalade, a Mercedes-Benz convertible, a BMW roadster and a Porsche. Sometimes, presumably, she needs all the cars at once, since it would take a motorcade to accommodate her line-up of over-stuffed carrier bags. Thanks to endorsements, Coleen at the age of 20 has a fortune of £5.5 million, which she is energetically disbursing. Her deals with Diet Coke, LG Chocolate phones and Asda's George range of discounted clothes makes her a better earner than Victoria Beckham, and now ITV has entreated her to accept another £1.5m for presenting a so-called 'lifestyle show'.

The network sees her, not very flatteringly, as a rejuvenated Cilla Black. But Cilla, before her voice dropped into that guttural saloon-bar register, used to sing. Coleen's stardom depends on no such accomplishment, which is why ITV values her: she is endearing because unthreatening - in no way better than her public, merely richer, which means that viewers can imagine themselves becoming her without needing to worry about possessing talent.
ITV promises that Coleen will employ her forum to dispense advice to the public. Advice, I wonder, about what? About how to accessorise, perhaps: she has never been forgiven for combining Pucci wellies with Juicy Couture velour trackies, or simultaneously swathing herself in assorted shades of pink and green. Or maybe about how not to incur a fine for evading customs duty: the secret of this - as she discovered at Manchester Airport very early one morning in October 2004 on her return from a weekend's shopping in New York - is not to push a looter's baggage train of four groaning suitcases through the green channel.

As her image ethereally encircles the world, she may even have a few tips about ending poverty in the Third World. Her solution to this will probably be novel. Coleen, whose father was a boxing bricklayer and whose mother worked at a nursery, comes from a jolly, f*g-puffing, beer-swilling proletarian culture, and recommends that if you can't improve your lot, you might as well enjoy it. 'I plan to visit somewhere like Africa,' she once mused, 'to find out more about their way of life. I find it so inspiring when you see people from poorer countries on TV - they just seem so happy with their lives.' Don't trust her, however, if she hands out advice about doing the laundry. Pottering about on Sunday mornings, she gathers up Rooney's sweat-stiffened jocks from the marble floors of their Cheshire mansion and tosses them in the washer. 'But I still make mistakes and mix up the colours,' she admits. 'I am getting better at it, slowly.'

The colleen, in becoming Coleen, underwent a rapid transformation. She has shed the chubby adolescent fat that inflated her when, still at school studying for her GCSEs, she was first snapped by the paparazzi. She has also junked the Puffa jackets that made her look like a globular midget, and thrown away the rubber band that used to take care of her pony-tailed hair. She has grown up, and become glamorous. The nails she used to nibble have been covered by talons of shellac, and her stringy hair has been ropily extended. Alexandra Shulman, who put her on the cover of Vogue last year, sniffed at the time that Coleen 'likes pink to an inadvisable degree'. Since then, the fashion fascists have grudgingly accepted her. I take fashion journalist Hadley Freeman's word for it that she now does justice to her Chloe skirts, her Lanvin heels, and her Stella McCartney scarf, though I'm unsure whether - in her indiscriminately eclectic way - she wears them all at once.

As I see it, there is little to dislike about Coleen. She has an engaging lack of pretence, and manages to remain cheap and cheerful despite her millions. 'I'm big on crisps,' she boasts. She also swills plonk: 'When we go to posh restaurants, I always ask, "You got any Blossom Hill?"' Rather than the posh restaurants, she would prefer to be at her local chippy, which is where she met Rooney and where they still often eat. Although she spends money as effortlessly as she earns it, she discourages others from imitating her. Last September she ticked off wannabes who get themselves in debt by shopping like 'Wags'. 'There's so much great stuff on the high street,' she insisted, citing Asda's £4 charm bracelets. 'You can look amazing on a budget.' Coleen is the very embodiment of Asda's pricing policy: it's no surprise that she and Rooney have been described as a discount-rate version of the Beckhams. Coleen and Wayne hired a private jet to spirit them from Manchester to Luton when they attended the Beckhams' party before this year's World Cup, but on arrival at Beckingham Palace they played the role of gawky, unstylish provincials, sabotaging the ostentation of their hosts. Rooney's thick neck resisted strangulation by a bow tie, and he hardly noticed what his other half had on: 'Coleen was in, er, let me see, a green frock, yeah, I think it was green.' He scoffed at Gordon Ramsay's grub - 'I gather he's very famous' - and exchanged no pleasantries with the assembled celebs. 'The only one I spoke to was Sharon Osbourne,' he recalled in his recent memoir. 'Our chat lasted about 10 seconds.'

Whereas the Beckhams are busy globalising their brand, world conquest matters little to Rooney and Coleen, because their conception of that world is so fuzzy. His schoolboy trips abroad to play football were spoiled by his pining for the fry-ups he had left behind in Croxteth. He hated Swiss bread - 'Ugh! All that lumpy brown stuff' - and choked on the 'waffle things' he was served for breakfast in Dallas. Holidaying in Mexico with Coleen in 2003, he invited both sets of parents to come along because he was afraid of being 'away in a foreign place for two weeks'. The world is equally wasted on Coleen, who on a jaunt to St Tropez unerringly sat-navved her way to McDonald's. Forget about the encounter with foreign cultures or the exploration of the earth's variety. 'Prada,' as Coleen has succinctly put it, 'is the same everywhere.'

Becks, God bless his sweet naivety, actually thought Posh was posh when he first met her. Rooney admired Coleen for a significantly different reason: at school, he has said, 'she was a little goodie-goodie, staying in and doing her homework.' It may be that Coleen is simply good, infused with Christian virtue. 'It's a Catholic thing,' she once blithely remarked when explaining how she came to accumulate 11 GCSEs or secured a contract to write a column of chit-chat for the magazine Closer or produced a DVD featuring the fitness routine with which she burns off the solidified grease from all those Big Macs. 'My parents drilled it into me to work hard.'

That is actually a Protestant thing, a belief in the spiritual merit of labour. The Catholicism appears in the McLoughlin clan's unquestioning faith in grace and their determination to repay God's gifts. Coleen's parents spent seven years fruitlessly attempting to have a child; their daughter was born after fertility treatment, although her two younger brothers were conceived without medical intervention. Having brought up their own children, Coleen's parents devoted themselves to fostering an extended family of waifs. In 2001 they adopted Rosie, a child with Rett syndrome who can neither walk nor talk; they are her full-time carers. They ferry their disabled charges to Lourdes, with stop-offs at EuroDisney on the way home. Rooney has been photographed pushing Rosie's pram around the magic kingdom. It doesn't do to sneer at the itinerary, which yokes together a sacred grotto and a fairy-tale castle. Both are proper destinations for a pilgrimage, places where you are miraculously cured or - failing that - conscientiously cheered up.

Even Coleen's shopping has an element of the crusade. Consumerism, as Elias Canetti pointed out, is the last of the great world religions, irresistible because it showers us with instant rewards and sends us to heaven without requiring us to die. Credit, so long as you pay your bills, is a proof of moral standing, and the merchants who extend it express their own faith in your probity. Coleen lives up to her end of the bargain, and obtains goods by spending money rather than scrounging freebies like her fellow Wags. At Harvey Nichols in Manchester, the private suite where she makes her purchases has a shower installed. It's not just that the excitement of acquisition may leave customers in a sweaty lather; the ritual is all about purging and purifying, cleansing lucre of its filth by transforming into commodities and thus into feelings. Coleen's father goes to Mass every day, while Coleen herself goes to the shops. Both, I'm sure, come home feeling exalted and absolved.

Although she no doubt disapproves of Rooney's illicit visits to a massage parlour, Coleen has been more openly critical of his failures as a consumer. 'He hates shopping,' she once noted. On another occasion she called him 'such a terrible shopper': an indictment of his sloppy inattention when trailing around the mall, and a critique of his commitment. What's the good of making £100,000 a week if you don't recirculate it? In his own defence, Rooney might have pointed out that he paid good money for sex and - like Coleen spurning donations from designers - asked for nothing on the house: £45 for oral relief in the Liverpool knocking shop, £140 to a woman dispatched by an escort agency.

Money also offers a means of moral restitution. Again, it's a Catholic thing: sinners traditionally bought papal indulgences, and Rooney too, after his sleazy dalliances with hookers, literally paid for his misdeeds. 'I made a full confession to Coleen,' he said. Remission might have entailed saying Hail Marys or Novenas. Instead Coleen imposed a penalty of her devising: she revenged herself on that shopping trip to New York, parting with extra wads of Rooney's money in Bloomingdale's. (Unfortunately the story that she tossed his £25,000 Tiffany engagement ring into a squirrel sanctuary seems not to be true.) The balance of power between the pair is subtle and delicate. She is a scapegoat, the surrogate to whom the tabloids transfer the blame for Rooney's Neanderthal infractions on the football pitch. 'Sometimes,' she said last year, 'I wonder if I'm being punished for something that Wayne's done.' Of course she is. England needs him, no matter how loutishly he behaves, while the expendable Coleen can take a drubbing on his behalf.

Trained to scourge himself like a dutiful Catholic, he accepts her role as his conscience, and pays whatever it takes to remain in credit with her. The rest is silence, or perhaps consists of elliptical punctuation. In his memoir Rooney, regressing to an inarticulate growl of contentment, let a row of dots speak for him about their private relationship. During the World Cup this year in Baden-Baden, the Wags were bussed to the team's hotel after training and 'allowed to stay the night, in our rooms. So that was good. As you can imagine ...' It's best not to do too much fervent imagining. Rooney himself concedes that, 'It never went through Coleen's head to think, "Ooh, he's gorgeous."'

He remains enigmatic, a combination of genius and unsocialised oaf. Coleen, however, is less puzzling. Her charm lies in her utter ordinariness, as she acknowledges at the end of her DVD work-out when she says, 'If I've done it, anyone can do it' - or, as Professor Higgins might have transcribed her Liverpool vowels, 'Eff arve doon et, enywoan kin doe wit.' The mystery is why someone so banal and blameless could provoke such animosity. She shrugged when she was voted the worst-dressed woman in Britain in 2004; a year later she was more perturbed to discover that, as she put it, she was now 'the most hated girl in Britain'. By this summer, she had worked it out. 'Jealousy's a big thing,' she remarked. 'When people see that you've got money, you're the worst person in the world.'

She is right: why else would the Sunday Mirror keep count of her foreign holidays, announcing with a clucked tongue that 'she's had five this year'. The rancour in newspaper coverage always has an undertone of snobbery. No profile is complete without the information she banks with Coutts, which - as every hack then notes - also handles the royal finances. It's all right for the Queen to inherit wealth that her ancestors expropriated from their subjects; it's not acceptable for Coleen to earn it. The assumption that she battened on Rooney because of his income is a coded social slur. Kensington debs get away with marrying merchant bankers after checking out their investment portfolios; the difference, once again, is a matter of class. In recent decades our society has been turned upside down by the emergence of a new brash, loud generation of self-advertisers and binge-shoppers, fuelled by greedy ambition and commercial shrewdness - Posh and Becks, Peter and Jordan, Ant and Dec, Damien and Tracy, Jack and Kelly Osbourne, Jade Goody and whoever she might currently be coupling with, and of course that composite yob fondly known as Wayleen. We attempt to arrest this revolution by invoking the old hierarchical pieties, which long ago lost their force. This was once a nation of shopkeepers, as Napoleon said. It is now a nation of shoppers, and those who sneer at Coleen are hypocritically deriding her because she indulges the craving with such lack of guile and guilt.

After her interrupted saunter through the green channel at the airport, she knows that wealth and fame come at a price. This is a young woman whose last birthday cake was festooned with carrier bags from Prada and Gucci; a while ago she defensively insisted that the carrier bags weighing down her arms in the tabloid snapshots are often empty. That detail, for me, is truly poignant, because it prompts me to ask why anyone would take an empty carrier bag for a walk. But Coleen is toting a symbol of herself: a capacious vacancy into which we project our infatuated admiration and the envy and malice that reconciles us to our own less fortunate lot. The bag may be empty, but it weighs a ton.

Peter Conrad's Creation will be published by Thames & Hudson next year.

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Coleen by those in the know

Rooney's ghostwriter
Hunter Davies

When I was ghosting Wayne's autobiography I had eight sessions at their house and I found Coleen to be a very bubbly and unaffected girl. She is highly intelligent and despite all the obvious distractions - i.e. Mr W Rooney - she got four As in her GCSEs and was expected to go to university to do media studies. She was a talented actress and dancer at school and had lead roles in all the big productions.

People malign Coleen for spending millions on clothes, but she doesn't spend any more than other girls her age with a bit of money. Plus, she has a large income herself these days. Of course she wouldn't be earning like this if she wasn't Wayne's fiancee, but she is talented. Had she not met him, Coleen could have easily, after five or six years, become a TV or radio personality in Liverpool and moved on from there.

The PR expert
Max Clifford

Coleen's biggest advantage is who her partner is, and as long as Wayne Rooney is a superstar of British football, she'll continue to shine and have amazing opportunities. It remains to be seen whether she can capitalise on them.

An awful lot of those opportunities will be from people with one eye on her and another on him. If she gets her own TV chat show for instance, surprise surprise if the first guest turns out to be Wayne Rooney, because if he's going to do a chat show, which he's never done, it's only going to be with one person. So straight away you've got a potentially huge show.

She's an attractive, unpretentious girl but at the moment the only reason she's marketable is because of Wayne Rooney. If next week she is no longer his girlfriend, within six months you'll hardly see anything of her.

Coleen's editor
Jane Johnson, Closer

I have probably had more letters about Coleen than anything else since she started writing for Closer two years ago. A ot of young girls identify with her because she doesn't have any airs and graces and they love her style. If Coleen's wearing it, it will fly out of the shops next week. She's not a supermodel, but young girls these days don't want to look like a supermodel, they want to look like a real person. Coleen is a style icon.

She's also proving to be a really grounded and bright young woman and I find her a real breath of fresh air in a quite cynical celebrity world. She lives in a big house but spends a lot of time round her mum's having tea and taking care of her younger sister, who has Rett's syndrome. I don't think she sees herself as a celebrity in any way - just a young girl caught up in all this excitement and enjoying it to the full.

Vogue editor

In the Telegraph last year, Alexandra Shulman defended her decision to feature a six-page photo shoot with Coleen.

For many publications, an interview and photo shoot with an unemployed 18-year-old with an outrageous shopping habit might not seem to be that riveting, but I felt it had a relevancy for us. Girls such as Coleen are a relatively recent fashion phenomenon. Twenty years ago, they simply didn't exist, but more awareness of fashion, an increasing interest in designer brands and the massive growth of the 'must-have' item have changed the shopping landscape. The Coleens of this world, with their obsessive interest in the new handbag, or that pair of boots, are an essential part of the fashion industry.

Do I think she is a style icon? Absolutely not, but I also feel that 'style icon' is one of the most ridiculous and overused phrases of our time. Do I think she's interesting? Yes, because she has become famous entirely through the filter of the paparazzi and tabloid press and that, in itself, makes her a phenomenon of our time. All she has done is hang out with her family and friends and go shopping. Her fame until now has been entirely the creation of others.

The ASDA designer
Sue Swannie, Global Brand, director of George at ASDA

Our 'Must Have' collections have been a huge success thanks to Coleen. She's one of Britain's top fashion icons and has boosted our trade enormously. When she launched the Must Have range at the end of May wearing a £10 shirt dress, tens of thousands sold in a matter of hours, making it one of George's fastest selling items in its 16-year history. It was a similar story for its £6 cropped shorts (70,000 pairs sold) and £3 racer-back vests (100,000 sold). Coleen has a great affinity with our customers.

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Roo opens new kids' unit

By ONLINE REPORTER
December 04, 2006

WAYNE Rooney and Coleen McLoughlin today opened a hospital unit for children with brain illnesses.

The England striker and his famous fiancee opened the Littlewoods Neurosciences Unit at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, in Liverpool.

The unit, funded in part by a £2.25million donation from Littlewoods Shop Direct, is the first UK facility to provide a complete neurological and neurosurgical service for children in a single purpose-built building.

Wayne and Coleen, who are long-standing supporters of Alder Hey, said they were "made up" to open the unit.

They said in a statement: "We're both really made up that we could be here for the opening today because we know how important a unit like this is to Alder Hey.

"The place is brilliant and it's already making a big difference to the children we met today, and we're just glad we can help."

Alder Hey Chief Executive Tony Bell said: "We are so pleased that Wayne and Coleen are able to be here today to mark this momentous occasion.

"We are also extremely grateful to Littlewoods for their incredible generosity."

Mark Newton-Jones, Chief Executive of Littlewoods Shop Direct, said: "We are delighted to be involved with the hospital and all the wonderful work it does with children from around the UK."

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Now it's Wayne and Col-lage

SOCCER ace Wayne Rooney and fiancee Coleen McLoughlin share a laugh as they open a hospital unit — and see a collage of them going SHOPPING.

The England striker, 21, and his girlfriend, 20, met kids with brain injuries as they opened the Littlewoods Neurosciences Unit at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool.

They said in a statement: "We're both really made up that we could be here for the opening because we know how important a unit like this is to Alder Hey.

"The place is brilliant and it's already making a big difference to the children we met today, and we're just glad we can help."

The collage was presented to Wayne by Liverpool fan Adam Fitzgibbon, 16 — who couldn’t resist teasing the Manchester United striker.

The teenager, who also proudly displayed an LFC duvet cover, said: "I told him I was going to get the five stars added for our five European Cups."

His father, George Fitzgibbon, added: "We gave Wayne a bit of grief for playing for Manchester United, but he took it very well.

"He knew we were only having a laugh, and he's kept his Liverpool sense of humour."

Rooney also encountered some good-natured jeers when Richard Appleton, a consultant neurosurgeon at the hospital, confessed to being a Manchester United fan.

Alder Hey Chief Executive Tony Bell said: "We are so pleased that Wayne and Coleen are able to be here to mark this momentous occasion.

Meanwhile Coleen has added businesswoman to her list of talents, as it emerged her company has made more than £200,000.

Coleen, who writes a column for Closer magazine, and has made a fitness video, founded Speed 9849, which offers "miscellaneous business services", in March 2005.

Figures from Companies House show the firm has made £205,035 through the sale of shares.

Her business partners include her mother, Colette McLoughlin, and Rooney's agent, Paul Stretford.

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Coleen, you're Harvey Nicked

COLEEN McLoughlin had her shopping searched by Harvey Nichols security staff — after it set off alarms.

Wayne Rooney’s fiancée had just splashed out £70 on a bikini at the Manchester branch.

But as she was heading through the door of the exclusive store with Man U and England ace Wayne, 21, the door alarm sounded.

Shoppers watched as humiliated Coleen, 20, was escorted by security staff to have her bag checked.

After being given the all-clear, she went to leave and the alarm sounded AGAIN. Security staff searched her bag of Juicy Couture gear a second time.

One shopper said: “Wayne and Coleen were really embarrassed. Clearly there was a security tag on the top and bottom of her bikini and neither were deactivated.

“Security did not recognise them and hauled them to a till to check.”

Harvey Nicks apologised to the couple last night.

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Wayne nets a new sport on his NY trip

Where's the goal gone? And isn't that handball?

Wayne Rooney became a spectator at a basketball match as he and his fiancèe Coleen McLoughlin took time out from a shopping trip to visit Madison Square Gardens in Manhattan. The couple watched the home team, the New York Knicks, take on the Boston Celtics yesterday.

Coleen looked a little ill at ease in the unfamiliar surroundings. She was more at home earlier when she and the Manchester United and England star shopped at the city's Bloomingdale's store and Polo Ralph Lauren.

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PR Guru reveals how to be famous without any talent

PR guru Max Clifford is doling out advice on how to be famous.

He is telling wannabes to feature in a stolen sex video, use fame by association or take part in a TV talent show - but fail abysmally. The guide is being broadcast on digital channel Fame TV.

Clifford said: "There's no set route or set of rules to achieving fame. Nowadays it's possible for people to become famous literally overnight.

"Talent doesn't even really come into being famous any more - it helps obviously - but most of it is just about being seen and with the right people and then really knowing how to capitalise on it.

"There are absolutely no limits to what people are prepared to do nowadays if they think it will achieve their dreams of fame."

The Max Clifford and Fame TV guide to the quickest routes to fame:

1. Appear on a reality TV show - Chantelle Houghton, Jade Goody, Kate Lawler

2. Enter a TV talent show - Will Young, Shayne Ward, Lemar

3. Gain news exposure using fame by association - Calum Best, Bianca Gascoigne, Paris Hilton, Peaches Geldof, Kelly and Jack Osbourne

4. Date a celebrity - Coleen McLoughlin (Wayne Rooney), Abbey Clancy (Peter Crouch), Kevin Federline (Britney Spears)

5. Make the most of your assets - Jordan, Melinda Messenger

6. Date a member of the Royal Family

7. Appear in a home sex video - Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Abi Titmuss

8. Be a My Space success - Lily Allen

9. Be photographed in the right place at the right time - Liz Hurley in her safety-pin dress, Kelly Brook, Caprice

10. Enter a TV talent contest and fail abysmally - Cheeky Girls, Darius Danesh

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Roo: January 21st is D-day

December 13, 2006

WAYNE ROONEY reckons January 21 is crunch time in the battle for the Premiership crown.

That is when Manchester United travel to Arsenal — the day after title rivals Chelsea visit Liverpool.

United’s former Everton hitman Roo said: “Our game is a big one. I never want Liverpool to win but if it’s going to help us to win the league then I won’t mind — for once.

“If they can do us a favour and beat Chelsea then that would be good. We’ll then be looking to get a first win at Arsenal’s new ground.”

Champions Chelsea can slash the gap on leaders United to five points by winning their game in hand at home to Newcastle tonight.

But Rooney insists the Old Trafford giants have what it takes. He added: “We know it’s a long campaign and the challenge will be difficult.

“However, we’re confident and hopefully this season is the one to bring back the title.”

Rooney, who has scored just eight times for his club this season, insisted: “I think there are a lot more goals in me.

“If I can score, get a few more assists and keep producing big performances then, hopefully, that will help us win the Premiership.”

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Rooney: I'm reddy to cool it

December 13, 2006

WAYNE ROONEY has revealed the frustration that has led to his red mists and red cards.

The Manchester United strike ace admits he cannot handle making a mistake or losing a match.

Rooney was TWICE sent-off last summer — in the World Cup quarter-final against Portugal and in a pre-season Amsterdam tournament clash against Porto.

He admitted: “When, for instance, I give the ball away and the other teams goes and scores, I blame myself. It does my head in.

“If I give the ball away I have to try to win it back as soon as possible and when things aren’t going right in the game you get frustrated. Every player does.”

Rooney, 21, also gets frustrated at what he believes is a lack of protection from referees.

He believes the fact he does not make a meal of being fouled actually works AGAINST him.

The England ace added: “For some reason refs think I should be able to protect myself without their help.

“I’ve had some bad tackles on me but I’ll get up where other players will roll around. So the refs think there’s nothing wrong with me.”

Rooney insists he has worked hard on his temperament and is winning that battle.

He said: “I just want to play football and sometimes I get angry and sometimes I don’t.

“I just try to hold myself back and think for a minute, then react after that.

“I think I’m getting better and I’m learning how to take a deep breath.

“I try not to get involved because I know if I do get frustrated it can affect my performance.”

Rooney has also revealed he almost sustained a freak injury while watching a basketball match on Monday night.

He and fiancee Coleen McLoughlin took advantage of a three-day break to travel to New York to watch the Knicks lose at home to Boston Celtics.

They had courtside seats at Madison Square Garden.

And in the early stages of the game Knicks star Paul Pierce — who is 6ft 8in and 17st — reached for a

loose ball, fell on to the striker and landed on Rooney’s right foot.

It is the same foot he broke ahead of the World Cup but, thankfully, this time no damage was done.

Rooney said: “It was very scary. He rolled right over my foot.”

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What sup with you then Roo?

GULP! Wayne Rooney showed plenty of bottle but zero tact when he snubbed the fizzy drink he is paid a fortune to promote.

Man United striker Wayne, 21, was seen at a basketball game guzzling a regular Coke — despite fronting ads for the healthy alternative, Coca-Cola Zero.
But fiancée Coleen McLoughlin, 20, necked a Diet Coke, the product she endorses in their joint deal.

The pair were spotted at yesterday’s NBA game between the Knicks and Boston Celtics at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

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Rooney and Coleen team up in ad

Dec 13 2006

Footballer Wayne Rooney and his fiancee Coleen McLoughlin are appearing together in a series of new ads for Coca-Cola.

The England striker features as the "guy who has everything" and is dressed in a black suit, while McLoughlin wears a long silver dress.

The ads will appear in neon lights near Piccadilly Circus tube station in London.

Coca-Cola GB's marketing director, Cathryn Sleight, said: "Wayne and Coleen are great ambassadors for Coca-Cola Zero and Diet Coke alike and we hope the public agree they look amazing in these pictures."

The company would not disclose how much they paid the couple to appear in the ads, but a spokeswoman said that Rooney is already under contract with Coca-Cola as part of a wider sponsorship deal.

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COLEEN & ROODOLPH

EXCLUSIVE She takes her sister to Lapland

COLEEN McLoughlin is taking her disabled sister to Lapland this week for a Christmas she'll never forget.

Wayne Rooney's fiance will whisk nine-year-old Rosie from their family home in Liverpool to meet Father Christmas and Rudolph in the snowy Arctic Circle on a magical festive getaway.

A source revealed: "Coleen absolutely adores Rosie and loves to spoil her. She thought a trip to meet Santa before Christmas was the perfect way to make this year extra special." Wayne will miss out as he is due to play in Man United's game against West Ham today. A source close to the family said: "Coleen and Rosie are really excited about the trip. It is every child's dream to meet Santa and Coleen wants to make Rosie's come true."

Rosie was adopted by Coleen's parents Tony and Colette at the age of two and has a neurological disorder which means she cannot move without help and is fed through a tube. "These trips make the world of difference," said the source. "Rosie really looks up to Coleen and they have lots of fun together."

www.sundaymirror.co.uk

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Col lang syne - what a stunner

COLEEN McLoughlin showed off her flower power at a New Year’s bash.

Wayne Rooney’s shopaholic fiancée looked stunning in the ’60s style floral print number, topped off with platform shoes. Coleen, 20, saw in 2007 with pals at Liverpool’s trendy Newz bar.
An onlooker said: “Coleen looked amazing — she really stood out.”

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Coleen: I was an Ugly Betty

She may be one of the most glamorous WAGs these days, but Coleen McLoughlin has revealed she used to be an Ugly Betty.

The fiancee of footballer Wayne Rooney says she used to be the spitting image of the TV show's dowdy magazine assistant - right down to the braces and specs.

"Like Betty I wore a brace and glasses when I was younger," the 20-year-old told the Daily Star.

"After wearing glasses since the age of seven I got contact lenses at 12. Then my brace was put in a year after that."

But the pretty brunette insists she never felt bad about her looks.

"At the time loads of other girls in my year wore braces, so I wasn't at all embarrassed," she said.

The WAG also admitted she still has to work hard at looking good.

"After taking a break over Christmas, I'm working out with my trainer twice a week," she said

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Vice gran in libel case loss

January 29, 2007

A GRANDMOTHER suing The Sun over claims that she had sex with Wayne Rooney while working as a prostitute had her £750,000 damages claim thrown out of court today.

Mother-of-seven Patricia Tierney, 52, denied the claim published in the paper in August 2004 that she was a sex worker at a Liverpool brothel used by the England and Manchester United star.

But today at Manchester County Court, it was revealed that Mrs Tierney, from Whiston, Merseyside, had admitted working as a prostitute in a statement to police two years earlier.

She claimed libel damages after saying her photo and the Sun article, headlined “Don’t fancy yours much Wayne” was “horrible lies” that had destroyed her reputation and her life.

Mrs Tierney, a grandmother of 16, launched the legal battle claiming she had only ever worked as a receptionist at Diva’s massage parlour in Liverpool – and had never worked as a prostitute.

Rooney, 21, had been put on notice by the court that he might be called as a witness.

But today Anthony Hudson, The Sun’s barrister, showed the court a police witness statement from May 2002.

In it, Mrs Tierney told officers she had sold herself for sex because she needed the money - but kept her job a secret from her family.

She told officers she had a “dual role” at the parlour, as a receptionist with housekeeping duties.

But she added in the statement: “On other days I would act as a sex worker.

My role would be to provide sex services to clients.”

Mr Hudson said Mrs Tierney’s claim amounted to £750,000 - £250,000 damages for her and £500,000 legal fees, which the Sun would have had to pay if she won her case.

He added: “Mrs Tierney has deliberately and knowingly engaged in fraudulent conduct, has deceived, and clearly been involved in an attempt to pervert the course of justice.”

Her solicitors withdrew from the case on Friday, after the statement came to light, advising her she could not now win her case.

Mr Justice Christopher Clarke today dismissed an application by Mrs Tierney, who represented herself in court, to adjourn the hearing while she sought alternative legal representation.

Instead the judge dismissed the case.

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Take That as a no then, Coleen

WAYNE ROONEY’S WAG COLEEN McLOUGHLIN is used to getting anything she wants when she brandishes her credit cards. But the future Mrs Rooney has found money can’t buy TAKE THAT.

She asked aides to book GARY BARLOW, MARK OWEN, HOWARD DONALD and JASON ORANGE to play a set at her 21st birthday bash in April.

But sadly for Coleen the UK’s finest manband decided the gig wasn’t for them — and they politely declined. The official reason for the snub was TT would be working abroad.

But I hope my fellow Liverpool fans Gary and Mark turned down Coleen because Wayne plays for Man United — and supports Everton.

My source tells me: “Coleen has a team of people chasing up top bands to play at her birthday. She has a big-name music guru involved to arrange the best entertainment possible. She was desperate for Take That.

“But the lads knocked her back because they aren’t really up for hire for private parties.”

Perhaps she could ask Roo to get pal P DIDDY to fly in from New York. If not, I’m sure Wayne’s Man United captain, GARY NEVILLE, would sing a few OASIS covers.

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Henrik's Ron and Roo tribute

February 02, 2007

HENRIK LARSSON reckons Old Trafford’s deadly duo are already on a par with Ronaldinho.

The Swedish striker has become an immediate cult figure with Manchester United fans just a month into his loan spell.

But Larsson, 35, believes Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney are the real reasons for his form.

The United hitman won the Champions League alongside Barcelona’s Brazilian star Ronaldinho and he said: “I’ve always said it is easy to play with great players and they are certainly among the great players.

“They’re already up there with the best I’ve played with.

“Wayne has got the vision and can score goals. So as long as you move when you have a player like that around you, then you are always going to get chances.

“I really enjoy playing with him and Cristiano. It’s frightening what they can do.

“I’ve been watching those guys playing on television and now I’m here playing alongside them and I’m really enjoying it.

"There are a few characters here and plenty of character in the squad as well, and that is always important. We have a great team spirit.”

Portuguese wing ace Ronaldo believes the title race has turned into a four-team battle.

United are six points clear of Chelsea, 11 ahead of third-placed Liverpool and 15 in front of Arsenal.

Ronaldo said: “If we had won against Arsenal, then the race for the title would have been between us and Chelsea.

“But Liverpool are coming strong and Arsenal are coming on as well — it is going to be a very difficult race.”

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Shrek Rooney, you are UGLY!

FEBRUARY 03, 2007

WAYNE Rooney has been voted the UGLIEST sports star ever.

The Man United footie ace, nicknamed Shrek, got 34 per cent of the vote to beat ex-England footballer Peter Beardsley (12 per cent).

Next came goofy Brazilian Ronaldinho with Liverpool’s gangly Peter Crouch fourth.

At the other end of the looks scale, footballer David Beckham was voted sexiest sports star of all time.

French hunks Thierry Henry and David Ginola were second and third.

Research firm Onepoll polled 4,000 female sports fans. Spokesman John Sewell said: “Rooney might be ugly — but he still managed to pull Coleen McLoughlin and she’s a cracker.”

Top 20 ugliest sports stars of all time:

1. Wayne Rooney; 2. Peter Beardsley; 3. Ronaldinho; 4. Peter Crouch; 5. Ricky Hatton; 6. Boris Becker; 7. Paul Gascoigne; 8. Luke Chadwick; 9. Prince Naseem; 10. Martin Keown. 11. Dwight Yorke; 12. Ian Rush; 13. Stephen Hendry; 14. Ian Botham; 15. Steve Davis; 16. Colin Montgomerie; 17. Nigel Mansell; 18. Roger Federer; 19. Andrew Murray; 20. Ray Parlour.

Top 20 sexiest sports stars of all time:

1. David Beckham; 2. Thierry Henry; 3. David Ginola; 4. Freddie Ljungberg; 5. Andre Agassi; 6. Mark Ramprakash; 7. George Best; 8. Jonny Wilkinson; 9. Jamie Redknapp; 10. Gary Lineker; 11. Michael Owen; 12. Jenson Button; 13. Vinnie Jones; 14. Ryan Giggs; 15. James Cracknell; 16. Cristiano Ronaldo; 17. Frank Lampard; 18. David Seaman; 19. Eric Cantona; 20. Eddie Irvine.

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Rooney snubbed by Nutini

February 03, 2007

FIRST COLEEN McLOUGHLIN was snubbed in her efforts to get TAKE THAT to play at her 21st birthday bash, as I revealed yesterday.

Now her Man U ace fiancé WAYNE ROONEY has lost out in his attempts to get singer PAOLO NUTINI along to perform on the big night in April.

Wayne is such a fan he even sent Paolo a signed England shirt, which I’m sure Paolo will really appreciate — given he is Scottish.

But alas, I’ve heard the husky-voiced songster can’t make Coleen’s bash because he’ll be in touring in Oz.

Wayne will just have to spin Paolo’s new single for his squeeze instead. New Shoes is out March 12. At least he can console himself with the signed guitar Paolo gave him.

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COLEEN'S SHOPPING ROO-M

ENGLAND star Wayne Rooney is adding a huge extension to his £3.5m mansion - and neighbours are joking that it's for all Coleen's new clothes.

The Man United striker already has six bedrooms, an indoor swimming pool, cinema, games room, gym and tennis court in the mansion he had purpose-built just over a year ago.

Now planners have told him he can he can build a two-storey extension to a garage and convert the ground floor for more storage space at the home he shares with girlfriend Coleen McLoughlin, 20.

A neighbour in posh Prestbury, Cheshire, said: "People are saying he needs more room for all Coleen's clothes. Every time we see her she's clutching shopping bags.

"It's amazing how they've filled all the other rooms and need an extention so soon after having the house built when there are just the two of them."

Rooney, 21, and Coleen moved in last year after demolishing a 1930s mansion and having a new house built in its place.

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Wayne is Col's lucky Man

COLEEN McLoughlin bought fiancé Wayne Rooney the ultimate Valentine gift — a history book of Man United costing £4,250.

It has 850 pages, weighs six stone and is signed by legends like Bobby Charlton and Eric Cantona. A pal said: “It must be love.”

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Coleen: I do love you Roo

16/02/07

WAG-NIFICENT Coleen McLoughlin looked delighted to be spending Valentine’s Day with her fiancé Wayne Rooney, 21,even though it was a little crowded.

While couples across the UK were enjoying intimate dinners, the headline-grabbing pair chose to add one or two names to the guest list at Manchester’s Lounge Ten Restaurant.

Breaking with tradition, Coleen, 20, invited her two brothers and their girlfriends along for the evening. An onlooker said: “Most couples like to be alone on February 14, but Wayne and Coleen looked like they had a great night.”

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Beware of the flare

They're back - and bigger than ever. But believe me, as someone who wore them the first time around, we didn't call them 'loon' pants for nothing:

What a sight, Coleen. That picture of you this week warned us all. Anyone who was thinking about going retro and flouncing into flares took just one quick look at you flapping along the street and thought if WAGs can't wear bags, the rest of us certainly can't.

For those who haven't seen the photo, there was Coleen McLoughlin, single-handed saviour of the British retail industry, strutting stuff she should have left in the changing room.

There was Coleen, rumoured to have ordered a house extension to accommodate her wardrobe, in an 'I've got nothing to wear' desperation choice.

There was Coleen, buffed up and worked-out Vogue model, looking short-legged and fat-bottomed.

She's 20 and gorgeous, but those of us who are twice her age - and more - looked at those flares and thought 'fashion victim'. We remember them first time around and have been straight-legged ever since...

Coleen even manages to look authentically cold and poor, which was the effect we were after in the Seventies. Goodness knows how much she has paid for the effect, but for most of us back then, the most expensive thing in our wardrobe was our Afghan coat.

It didn't come cheap and it didn't fasten up, because the whole idea was to look free-spirited. Smelling like a wet dog was a price worth paying.

This flares infection isn't limited to Coleen. Davina McCall recently strapped her baby to her chest and went out in a pair of the widest cutoff bell bottoms that looked as if she might at any time execute a quick mother and baby hornpipe duet. Oh, put her in the scuppers with a hosepipe on her.

And, by the way, men wore them too. In fact, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen turned five in 1970 and has worn the Seventies look ever since.

So now Coleen is into flares, look out for Wayne Rooney in a matching pair of 22in wide hems and - oh yes! - one of those frilly shirts to complete the look. He and Coleen could be together for ever, entwined by their trouser bottoms.

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WAG Coleen becomes Girl With A Pearl Earring

Stand back far enough and you might think this picture is the original Vermeer.

But look closer and you'll recognise Coleen McLoughlin as The Girl With A Pearl Earring.

Wayne Rooney's fiancee recreates the painting for photographer John Paul Pietrus in tomorrow's Guardian Weekend magazine.

It is one of a series showing Coleen, 20, in famous paintings including the Botticelli Venus, Manet's A Bar At The Folies-Bergere and David Hockney's portrait Mr And Mrs Clark And Percy.

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Very modern muse

Artists need them, photographers nurture them, fashion lovers seek them out and now, says Hadley Freeman, Coleen McLoughlin has become one - an inspiration and an icon

She arrives in a flattering jumper dress and simple, ladylike shoes. Well, what were you expecting - a tracksuit? Oh, please. For Coleen McLoughlin, the 21-year-old fiancee of this country's most gifted young footballer (it's almost always fiancee with a footballer, hardly ever "girlfriend"), the days of schoolgirl blazers, lemoncoloured velour, Burberry bikinis and Pucci wellingtons are as much of a distant memory as David Beckham's captaincy. Instead, Coleen has become one of the more surprising yet pleasing reinvented fashion icons of modern times.

Sitting in the make-up chair in between photos, flicking through a copy of OK! magazine ("I like reading the interviews, because then you know that's what the person has actually said. A lot of what you read is a load of rubbish"), she has a little smile at the thought: "It's an honour, really, because when I was growing up I really looked up to my auntie for her style." So she knows what it's like to look up to people for their style? "Exactly."
Rarely has a woman been so defined by and vilified for her clothes as Coleen. In her first appearance in the press in February 2003, a harbinger of things to come, the media expressed general astonishment at what she was wearing and it made the front pages. Admittedly, this was because she was 16 and wearing a school uniform, which did have a certain shock value, seeing as her 17-year-old boyfriend, Wayne Rooney, then with Everton, was being paid £13,000 a week.

Little was known about Coleen at the time: we were told she was clever, having just knocked up 10 GCSEs (she dropped out of her A-levels, mainly because her classes got in the way of watching Rooney's football matches); she came from a closeknit family from Liverpool and, as soon became clear, she had a very generous boyfriend.

And so she shopped. And shopped and shopped and shopped. No matter how many elegant Lanvin dresses and Balenciaga jackets she wears now, one of the defining images will always bethat of her emerging from the airport after a trip to New York in 2004, awkwardly pushing several suitcases, big as coffins, full of new clothes.

She vehemently insists that she didn't, and doesn't, shop that much - it's just that the only time the paparazzi could get photographs of her was when she was out and about. It's a good excuse, even if it does suggest that every time she left the house she went shopping. She still wriggles out of putting a figure on her general expenditure ("It's like anybody - up and down"), though she will concede that her most expensive purchase so far is an Hermès Birkin bag (rough price, £3,000) and the one thing she does think is overpriced is designer cashmere: "That really gets me - cashmere jumpers, like Missoni do them, and you pay hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of pounds for a jumper. Or you can go to Gap or George at Asda and they're just as nice."

Looking back at the photographs from a few years back, does she have any regrets? "I wouldn't say regret, as that's quite a strong word and, you know, it's about expressing yourself and that was me then," she says with an unconcerned shrug. As she says, quite rightly and with an impressive lack of rancour, "I was 16! What 16-year-old is an expert on fashion?" And in any case, what would anyone expect a schoolgirl with a sudden flush of unimaginable accessible wealth to buy - a demure Chanel twinset?

Ultimately, the real criticism of the chavs in general - and the Wags in particular - was always a question of class. Aside from the beauty of the clothes, fashion is, at heart, about codes in which clothes are used to show off your demographic - ie, wealth, which at one point was synonymous with class. But now, huge amounts of money are swilling about in industries not generally dominated by the upper classes, notably sport. How dare these uppity young folk try to muscle in on this once carefully preserved system, flashing around their designer logos and Burberry prints? There are rules, you know!

Of course, Coleen made the occasional outfit choices that were a little off-piste ("The yellow moonboots keep coming to mind," she says), but the ensuing bile in the press suggested something else was at stake here, other than disapproval of Coleen's choice of colour coordination.

Jenny Eclair opined in the Daily Mail, "that she's got one of those classic working-class bodies - it doesn't matter how gym-toned the girl might be, there is still something about her that looks like she was designed to bring in the washing". In a more recent article one writer, perhaps with a head full of HE Bates, waxed sentimental condescension about Coleen's "jolly, fag-puffing, beer-swilling proletarian culture".

This seems to raise Coleen's ire the most. "I mean, what did he say again? Jolly what? My parents don't even smoke! And yeah, they might have a drink at Christmas but they don't really go out." She vehemently insists that she "has never worried about money. My mum and dad have always worked - you can ask them", presumably because she's sick of her parents being made to sound like characters from Shameless. She doesn't mind the stuff about herself so much, and for someone who was once described in a paragraph that used the words "vulgar", "tubby" and "Vicky Pollard" one after the other, and whose boyfriend was gleefully outed in the tabloids as having enjoyed a youthful if baffling dalliance with a prostitute known as "the auld one", she has a surprisingly benign attitude towards the press: wise but not bitter or cynical. She shrugs at the frequently invoked label "shopaholic", and says, "The press just needed some kind of name to hang on me."

She once said that when she was being most heavily vilified, she felt like she was "being punished for something Wayne did". She doesn't like that quote so much now, because she thinks it makes her sound a bit self-pitying, but she does stand by its sentiments. "People were criticising me then for doing this and doing that, and I thought, now, there's no need for those comments, I haven't done anything wrong. I do think that with a couple, if they've got something on one person, they'll try to go through the other."

Perhaps she knows there's no point in getting too worked up about all this because she's got her revenge now, good and proper. For a start, she is looking empirically, undeniably lovely these days. Now that the immediate thrill of being able to buy designer clothes has dissipated somewhat, she is no longer quite so distracted by flashy patterns but instead favours simple, pretty outfits by the likes of Stella McCartney, Chloé and Lanvin. "It's not that all [the criticism] changed me. I just grew, and I've come to like other things that suit me - different cuts, different lengths, different whatever." She's already spotted quite a few pieces for the coming season that she likes the look of, particularly from Chloé and Temperley ("I like nice girlie stuff. I'm not really a short-skirt person") and, she adds with a naughty smile, Christian Louboutin shoes.

Aside from now being applauded for her style nous, she has written a style book, has a magazine column, has done the obligatory fitness video ("That was quite hard work, so I bought myself a Fendi baguette bag afterwards") and, with various advertising deals, is said to be worth more than £5m.

It must be nice, I say, to be earning money of her own. "Well, I always have, really," she replies. "When I was at school, I got a Saturday job in New Look and worked extra hours to earn money to buy Wayne's birthday present." Fair enough. What did she get him with her New Look money?

"Um, a jumper. Some wireless headset thingy. Oh, and a ring, like a Cartier style. Except," she adds, with a giggle, "it wasn't Cartier!"

There is still such a sweet smack of normality to Coleen. She is the face of George at Asda, and recounts delightedly how a man came up to her recently and slapped his bum at her. Slapped his bum, I cry, all set to be outraged at this blatant sexual harassment. "You know!" she laughs, shifting her weight in her chair to demonstrate what she means, "Like they do in the adverts!" She makes the little "that's Asda" double pat on her backside.

When I apologise for all the people poking and prodding at her during the fashion shoot, she chirps, "Oh no, I really like doing photo shoots!" Right, I think, you get to try on fancy clothes all day. "Yeah, I like meeting all the hair and make-up people," she continues. When I ask what the best part of the past four years has been, she makes vague noises about, "Ummm, meeting all the people, I guess", before alighting on, "Getting people to come with me to Manchester. One time I'll go with all my cousins, and one time I'll go with all my friends. I love that."

Unlike some of her fellow Wags, who now seem to mix solely among the kookier reaches of the A-list, Coleen's social circle is still her friends from home. When she went to Euro 2004, she took her best friend . "And good thing I did, because I didn't know everyone and most of them have children and all. We had a right laugh." For the World Cup, she again brought a friend, as well as her brother.

This turned out to be a good thing, too. Despite all the press photographs last summer of the Wags - namely Coleen, Victoria Beckham, Elen Rives, Alex Curran, Cheryl Tweedy, and Carly Zucker - patrolling the streets of Baden-Baden, cruising for designer boutiques like hungry, denim-clad lionesses searching for prey, she claims they didn't spend that much time together. "Everyone does their own thing. You might go to dinner with one or two of them , but that's it, really."

The Wag phenomenon actually took a little bit of the heat off Coleen simply because, next to her flashier, skinnier, showier colleagues, her relative normality was emphasised. She denies reports about cat fi ghts - "Y ou might look at what one another's wearing, but that's, you know, how girls are. It's not like there's competition about who's the most dressed-up" - and insists that it wasn't quite the 24-hour catwalk show it seemed . "When we went to the matches most of us went in our tracksuits because it was so hot on the bus. And then we got there and put on our clothes..."

She prefers to stick with her mates from Liverpool. Yet this, too, has been cause for criticism: when Coleen bussed in her friends for her birthday last April, the Daily Mail, unable to have a go at Coleen because she was looking patently lovely in a pretty skirt and ladylike top, consoled itself by sneering at her friends with their "cleavages wobbling, thighs straining desperately against skinny-fi t jeans". Understandably, her friends now run down the road when they see photographers , muttering to Coleen, "We're not getting this again."

They're the ones who get upset on Coleen's behalf about what's written about her and Wayne, but she tells them not to be silly, it's not true, who cares? "They're not part of that world and they're not interested in it at all . With them around, it's like nothing's happened and everything's still the same." Does she wish it was? "No, because some of it's been brilliant and, to be honest , it hasn't changed that much. When it's just me and Wayne in the house, it's the way it's always been."

She is clearly besotted with Rooney. Every time she mentions his name - which she does, often - she makes a pretty little smile. They have been together for six years - "Our families always knew each other" - and engaged for two (he proposed when they were having dinner with her parents), and live in a £4m house in Chester. "I think we grew with [becoming famous] together, because Wayne had his football stuff whereas I was more on the front page. Now Wayne's more on the front page, but he'd prefer to be back on the back pages. But we support each other, with the bad press and the good."

Rooney's one fault, she reluctantly concedes, her voice dropping a little in disappointment, is that he's not much of a shopper. Sometimes when they're sitting about at home, he will suddenly say, "C'mon, let's go shopping", which always shocks her - but, really, he means going into just one or two shops, and that's not much good, is it? "Sometimes it's nice going with him, but if I wanted to get a special dress, I wouldn't go with Wayne because he wouldn't want to look around," she says, a little regretfully but fondly. He does, though, get good stuff for her, because he'll go to the shops she frequents most often - Cricket and Flannels, the Liverpool and Manchester designer boutiques favoured by the Wags - and the managers there will point him to things that she'd like, so that's good . If you asked him, though, she says, he'd really just prefer her in jeans and a T-shirt - "You know, normal stuff ."

Ultimately, the most surprising thing about Coleen is not that she's become a bit of a style icon - after all, most young women's taste will improve between the ages of 16 to 21 - but that, while her wardrobe has changed, she herself seems to have stayed relatively the same. Many chins were stroked and theories propounded about Chantelle, the fake pop star from Celebrity Big Brother, being the perfect celebrity for our celebrity-obsessed times, but actually Coleen suits that description much better. Her fame, originally by association, was created by the new breed of weekly celebrity magazines and increasingly celebrity- oriented tabloids. Her appeal rests on her accessibility, as opposed to the fearsome glamour that was once demanded of celebrities.

It's often said that today anyone can be a celebrity, and increasingly that's meant more in a hopeful, as opposed to cynical, way, and Coleen is the unexpectedly heartening proof of that. As she says of herself, "This is a girl from this, and now she's that and isn't that - well, you know."

· Welcome To My World, by Coleen McLoughlin, is published next month by Harper Collins priced £14.99. To order a copy for £13.99, including free UK p&p, call 0870 836 0875

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EXCLUSIVE: COLEEN MY STORY
MY HEARTBREAK AT THE REVELATIONS OVER PROSTITUTES BUT WAYNE AND I WILL DEFINITELY WED HE PROPOSED AT THE PETROL STATION HE'LL NEVER FIND ANOTHER GIRL LIKE ME

By Stephen Moyes And Beth Neil 19/02/2007

COLEEN McLoughlin today lifts the lid on her life with Wayne Rooney - the romance, the riches and the massage parlour revelations that nearly broke her heart.

Coleen, 20, admits she felt her world had fallen apart when stories about her boyfriend and prostitutes first emerged.

She says: "It was a horrible time... heartbreaking. I was so young and so upset. My head was all over the place."

Coleen also tells how Wayne popped the question at a petrol station and reveals the couple's wedding plans.

She says he won't find another girl like her, adding: "We've grown up together."

When the story came out about Wayne and the prostitutes my life was suddenly turned upside down. I spent days sitting indoors thinking the whole world was against me.

Wayne and me were eighteen, we'd been together for nearly two years and were engaged to be married.

Suddenly the papers were saying that when he was 16 Wayne had been seeing prostitutes in a Liverpool massage parlour. I was just so upset, my head was all over the place.

The truth is, and I've never said this before, at that time in our relationship I'd never even slept with Wayne.

I was only 16 and we weren't having that kind of relationship at that stage. We used to meet at the chippy or the cinema. All this was going through my head and the more I read the more I became upset and annoyed.

The whole story was being put across as if it had happened the day before and so everyone was thinking 'Oh, she's with him and he's doing that behind her back.'

They were even saying stupid stuff like how Wayne might have a disease and how I should ask him to be checked out at the doctor's.

Then there was the accusation that I was staying with Wayne just for his money. What other reason could there be, they said.

When we first started going out together, Wayne didn't even have a professional contract with Everton. He was on the YTS and he only earned about £60 a week.

I think he bought me a pair of trainers once. But back then, in the early stages of our relationship, I would never take money from him.

I was still living with my mum and dad and I got my own pocket money. Not only that but we weren't old enough to go into pubs or at an age when you ate out at posh restaurants, so we didn't really need any money.

Further down the line, Wayne earned his first proper contract at Everton and then he'd buy me things or take me shopping, or if I was going into town he'd give me some money to treat myself.

He didn't give me money from the very start. Even if he had done, it's really not anyone else's business and I think a lot of criticism stems from pure jealousy.

It was a horrible time. My mum and dad were on holiday in Florida with my sister Rosie and my youngest brother Anthony, so when I found out I went straight to my Auntie Tracy and Uncle Shaun's.

There was no one else I could go to see or who I wanted to tell. I drove straight down there.

All these thoughts were racing through my head. How was I going to break the news to my mum and dad? How do you tell them that kind of thing?

Then I was thinking I needed to let my nan and grandad know what was happening.

For anyone to deal with that kind of thing is heartbreaking, but I was only 18 years old. I was so young and all of a sudden I was faced with something I could never imagine happening to me or my family.

For days I didn't want to see anyone. Tracy asked me: "Where's Wayne now?" I told her he was at our house in Formby.

Tracy said I needed to talk to him, that I needed to sort things out. She was right, so I told Wayne to drive over to Tracy's. He came over and that's how the two of us ended up staying there for two weeks working things out.

While all this was happening, Wayne finally decided to move to Manchester United and that caused its own problems and anxieties.

What Wayne had done in the past was wrong but he knew that and he was sorry.

So why did I stay with him? On the first night, when we sat in Tracy and Shaun's front room, I didn't know if I wanted to be with Wayne or not. I told him I didn't know what I wanted or whether we should keep the relationship going. All Wayne kept repeating was how sorry he was.

Everything wasn't all right straight away. But I knew that if there was a chance of us working things out then trust would have to be rebuilt over time.

After a few days hiding away in their house, we went to Manchester shopping one day. On another day we went to Blackpool Pleasure Beach, both of us with our hats on and collars turned up. Only a few people recognised us.

Over that time, things became clearer in my head and I realised that we would try to make things work between us. Gradually we started rebuilding our relationship. As I said, it's not a matter of one day waking up and saying 'I'm going to stay with you.'

It was a horrible thing that had happened, though people do much worse. Looking back, I went through some extremely difficult times, with things that you don't necessarily want to be seen up for public scrutiny.

It was hard. I know lots of people go through far more difficult times but that doesn't make your own problems any easier to cope with.

At such a young age I hadn't experienced anything like it previously.

Fortunately I had the strength of character to come out on the other side and I also had the love and support of family and friends, people who were there for me.

I will always be grateful to them - they helped get the normal Coleen back.

Touch wood, but I think that if me and Wayne ever did split up, it would be very hard for him to find someone he could really trust, a girl who didn't just want to go out with him because he's Wayne Rooney, the famous footballer.

I've grown up with Wayne and Wayne's grown up with me. I've learned from him and vice versa.

Trust in any relationship is important but especially so when you're in the spotlight.

The overall effect on me as a person was that I lost a lot of my usual confidence.

I'm normally a happy and out-going person but back then it felt like some of that had been taken away.

I remember sitting in a Liverpool hairdresser's and I could hear this woman in the back having her hair washed and talking about me.

Me and Wayne were going through a rough patch and the newspapers were full of me throwing my engagement ring away in the squirrel park near to where we used to live.

I was sitting there and the next thing I heard was this woman say "Oh yeah, so-and-so's taken the kids to the squirrel park.

"You know, where that soft girl Coleen McLoughlin threw away her engagement ring!"

In the mirror, I could see the girl who was washing the woman's hair and she just looked embarrassed. Eventually the girl told her that I was only a few feet away. For once, I couldn't stop myself from putting her right.

She said: "Oh, I didn't know you were there! C'mon, then, let's see it!"

She was talking about the ring. I was fuming but I also felt really ashamed because I could sense everyone in the hairdresser's staring at me.

SO I showed her my ring, the one I was meant to have chucked away, still on my finger, where it belonged.

She just looked and went, "Ah, it's lovely, isn't it?" She never apologised.

Me and Wayne got engaged on Monday 1 October 2003. It was romantic, but not in the traditional sense. We were meant to be going out for a Chinese meal but halfway there I decided that I didn't feel like it. So on the way back Wayne pulled into the garage, either to get some petrol or to use the cash machine, probably both.

We were parked up when he reached inside his pocket and brought out this beautiful emerald-cut diamond engagement ring and asked me if I wanted to marry him.

He was going to give it to me while we were having our meal but he ended up proposing in the car. I didn't have to think about it. I said "Yeah, yeah, I do." On the way home, I phoned mum to tell her that we'd decided to come home for our tea and that we were engaged!

When we arrived back she'd laid the table and had candles and a bottle of champagne out. A glass of champagne and a plate of my mum's corned-beef hash, sausage and beans, that was our engagement dinner!

I was only 17 and was worried about whether I was a little too young. But I couldn't imagine being with anyone other than Wayne for the rest of my life. Wayne never officially moved into our place. What happened was that his mum and dad had moved house so he was spending most of the time round at our place.

While he was there we didn't sleep in the same bedroom or anything. It was only after we'd moved out and bought our own house that we were allowed to do that.

When Wayne asked me to marry him, it did make a difference to our relationship. I know that sounds obvious but being engaged gives you that extra bond. It is natural step towards marriage and the future.

The experiences we've been through together, both personally and in our careers, have forced us to grow up quicker than a lot of couples our age. Going through all we have done has only brought us closer.

Me and Wayne would like to get married in the near future and then we can think about having children. Wayne would love to have a child right now but I think I'm too young.

Extracted from Welcome to My World by Coleen McLoughlin. To be published by HarperCollins on March 5 price £14.99.

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COLEEN AND WAYNE'S MAD MONDAY!

19/02/2007

I'M sure there are people who imagine Wayne and me live this fabulous lifestyle with servants at our beck and call and celebrities popping over for dinner every other night.

But when we're at home alone we are no different from any other young couple who live together.

We have a laugh, we sometimes argue, we sometimes irritate each other. I have my bad habits, Wayne has his, so we're normal - and it's that normal part of our life that I love more than anything else.

If I were to describe a typical night then I'd choose a Monday. Wayne's usually played a match at the weekend so he'll be allowed to relax at home before the next game.

If I'm cooking, then it'll more than likely be spaghetti bolognese and we might have the odd glass or two of wine.

Then it's a night in front of the telly. We call Monday nights "Mad Monday" because we'll watch Emmerdale, Coronation Street, EastEnders, then Corrie again - that's our night in, watching the soaps.

Wayne never used to watch them but I think I've converted him into a fan.

If there's nothing on or I'm not doing anything then I'll go to bed. If I've had a big weekend I can easily go to bed at 9.30pm.

Wayne is more likely to sit and watch a film for a couple of hours or maybe play games on his computer.

When we moved into our first house, I cried non-stop for two weeks. We'd been living at my family home in Croxteth and that had been great but by the end of 2003 we decided we should to get a place of our own.

HAVING viewed a load of properties, we eventually found this lovely detached house by the sea in Formby, a quiet coastal town just on the border of Liverpool.

I was 17 and had just left school and Wayne was only 18. We were at an age when, under normal circumstances, we'd be moving into a rented one-bedroom flat - if we were lucky - and here we were buying this £1million house.

Four bedrooms, all with en-suite bathrooms. Then there was an indoor swimming pool, which was just crazy when you think about it.

I could have got an interior designer in to give me ideas but I'd left school, wasn't really doing anything and I wanted to have a go myself, so the design and decorations were left to me. But as much as I loved the house I never fell in love with living there and being away from Croxteth and Liverpool.

My mum and dad's house was only half-an-hour away down the motorway but in my head it seemed like miles and miles.

My mates lived so far away that they couldn't pop round like they normally would have done. They had to drive to get to us and most of them didn't even have a licence.

In the end, around about Christmas in 2005, we found a house set in two acres of land in a quiet village in Cheshire where quite a few of the Man United players live.

It's my dream house and I couldn't be happier. It's taken a while - I've still got boxes of shoes in the garage - but finally, after over a year, I feel like we've properly moved in and got it exactly how we want it.

Since we moved in, we've tried to be tidier than we naturally are. We have a cleaner and gardener who both come in and help out.

Janet comes in five days a week for a couple of hours. It's nice to leave the place in the morning and come back to a clean house and everything's done.

I'm fairly tidy but Wayne is just a mess. No, maybe that's unfair. Ever since we moved into this house he's been good. Before, at night he'd just step out of his clothes and leave them on the floor. But now he'll either put them in the washing basket or take them down to the laundry.

Once you get your own house I think you make more of an effort. That's why when I invite my mates over I tell them there can't be any parties. I'll have a night when we'll all have a drink but it's nothing like when their mums and dads go away. Why? I'm not getting my house messed up!

Last summer we had a few friends - Wayne's brothers Graeme and John, and a few of his cousins - round for a barbecue and everyone was partying until we ended up in the swimming pool.

We look around and there's this bunch of mates who've grown up together in Croxteth, known each other for ages, and here we are messing about in this swimming pool in a big house in Cheshire that belongs to us.

We're just a bunch of kids. I think it's mad but at the same time it's so lovely.

We've got a tennis court in the garden but we've only had a couple of games and I'm not very good. I'm determined to get better.

One time we had a few friends round for dinner and hired caterers to come in and do everything. And it was lovely but it does feel a bit weird when you have these strangers in your home cooking and serving and doing everything for you.

Wayne's not really one of those boys who spends too much time in the kitchen.

Although there was one time, in our house in Formby, when he made steak, chips and sweetcorn, with peppercorn sauce over the steak. He told everyone he did it by himself but I helped him - with a little extra assistance from George Foreman's grill.

If we're treating ourselves, our favourite meal out would be either a Chinese or an Italian. If it's a Chinese then we go to a restaurant in Manchester called Wings where a lot of our friends go. We turned up one day and the manager asked Wayne: "Do you like your chopsticks?" We picked them up and they had our names written on the side.

It was really sweet of them. The manager said that every time we came for dinner we would have our own chopsticks. Wayne was made up.

At home I think Wayne would like to have a few dogs around the place but I don't want any animals. Apart from anything else, we are not at home enough so it wouldn't be fair.

Wayne bought me a chow named Fizz and later on I bought a white fluffy bichon frise called Daisy but because we've moved backwards and forwards over the past few years they now both live at Mum's.

AS far as pets go, I'm happy with the rabbits and squirrels in the garden and the odd badger and fox that we see wandering around.

If I want anything more exotic then I can go round to my mum and dad's house.

They've still got the terrapin, Jack, that my uncle bought me when I was one-year-old. There were two, Jack and Jill, but Jill fell down the hill, so to speak, and died when she was young. But Jack's still going strong.

Then there's Bob, the talking parrot. He says all sorts, like "Rooney... Goal!" or he'll go "Coleen" then he'll give out a wolf whistle! Charming. I don't know who taught him that one.

One of the things me and Wayne have always said is that where we live now is our sanctuary away from the public spotlight.

Not that we ever want to be locked or hidden away from real life. Both me and Wayne are always aware of where we've come from and we go home enough to our mum and dad's houses to never lose touch with normality.

From the Everton first team to the England team, to the move to Manchester United with Wayne's work, and now my work, everything has been a gradual stepping stone to where we are now.

Well, gradual in terms of this accelerated life we're living.

But everything that's happened, moving from my mum's to the house in Formby to the bigger house now. Owning a Ford Ka, then a Ford Focus, then up to the Bentley I'm driving which Wayne bought me for Christmas - it's all been equally as exciting. I don't want to lose that feeling of excitement."

TRUTH ABOUT THAT PUFFA COAT

EVERYONE asks if I hate the photograph of me in the puffa coat but it was me in my childhood at 8am going to school.

I walked around the corner and a snapper popped out of a hedge. I just kept walking.

My friend still has that jacket. I must get it back and put it on eBay!

I've always been interested in fashion. Even if I only had money for my bus fare home, every Saturday I'd still go round the shops to have a look.

TRUTH ABOUT THAT HAIR DRYER

When he comes to bed Wayne sticks the hair dryer on - the noise helps him sleep.

It used to be the Hoover when he was a kid. Nowadays it's the fan or the hair dryer and he rarely gets the vacuum out any more.

When we're away and staying a hotel, I'll come back from shopping and he'll be lying there fast asleep holding the hair dryer, which is on a cool setting.

There have been times when he's been travelling with the team and I've seen him packing it away into his suitcase. He'll say it's to do his hair. "It's not!" I'll say, "I know what it's for!"

These days, just to keep the peace, I've got used to the fan going all night at home.

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WAYNE AND COLEEN TO WED IN 2008

19/02/2007

WAYNE and Coleen are to wed some time after summer 2008 - because they simply cannot find the time to tie the knot any sooner.

The planning will be put on hold until after England's bid for glory in the Euro 2008 finals.

Coleen said: "We'll have to think about it pretty hard and start planning around the tournament.

"It's hard to organise when you don't know when the tournament's going to finish for England. But Ashley Cole and Cheryl Tweedy got married after the World Cup last year, so it can be done.

"It might just mean not having a honeymoon afterwards.

"But I'm not even 21 yet and I've got my birthday to think about first."

Coleen is dreading picking out her dream dress for what will be the most lavish wedding of the year. She's read dozens of bridal magazines but is no further forward.

She laughed and said: "I haven't got a clue. I'm terrible picking a dress for a Saturday night, let alone for my wedding.

"I see different styles and think 'Oh, that's nice,' but I haven't got my heart set on any particular one.

"I think I'd have to get something that suits me and my shape."

Coleen, 20, will take charge of the outfits but the wedding tunes will be up to music buff Wayne, 21.

She said: "Wayne's much better on his music than I am . If it was up to him he'd have the Stereophonics playing live. Not in the church, mind!

"He likes his bands. Maybe the Arctic Monkeys could play at the reception. We'd have to think about that."

Getting hitched this summer is out of the question - Steven Gerrard and Alex Curran and Gary Neville and Emma Hadfield got in first.

Coleen said: "There's loads of speculation that me and Wayne are getting married this summer but no, we're not. A few friends are getting married but not us."

Coleen and Wayne are also looking forward to having a family and raising a brood of mini-Rooneys

She said: "The subject of children does come up now and again. We do want them but we haven't made any plans - I'm still only young and enjoying what I'm doing at the moment.

"I wouldn't want to stop that yet. I know you can carry on your career when you've got kids, but it's not the same. We haven't decided what we'd call them. I don't think Wayne's that interested in baby names just yet!"

Coleen told how Wayne keeps their romance bubbling - by buying her flowers from their local garage.

Despite his bulging bank balance, the striker is not one to splash the cash on amorous gestures.

Coleen said: "The other week we'd had a little argument over something stupid and he went to to the garage and got me a bunch of roses. "He brought them in and said 'There you are, I got you them.'

"They weren't exactly the nicest flowers in the world, but it's the thought that counted."

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Coleen: I am not just a WAG

COLEEN McLOUGHLIN is seen as an airhead shopaholic who blows fiancé Wayne Rooney’s fortune. But she is determined to show she is her own person with her own money.

In this exclusive extract from Coleen: The Biography, she reveals her achievements, hopes and ambitions.

THERE’S no denying Coleen likes to shop, spending up to £10,000 in a single spree.

She has more than £30,000 worth of handbags and haute couture outfits worth more than £200,000.

Add to that the shoes and perhaps it’s not surprising some labelled her a gold-digger.

But today she’s turned her image around, even trumping Victoria Beckham in the style stakes.

The fashion world has taken note. And so have the critics. But Coleen, 20, a bright girl, isn’t about to forget the sniping.

She wants to carve out her own career and has earned a whopping £5million in the past two years — she even has her own account at posh bank Coutts & Co.

Coleen says: “I enjoy working. I’m dedicated and I would hate to be just sitting around the house waiting for Wayne to come home.

“He is glad for me to work, he is proud of me and it means I can buy him little gifts out of my own money. It doesn’t feel the same if I do it by spending his money.

“I’ve never been workshy. I worked as a sales assistant in New Look when I was at school, on Saturdays, and sometimes after school in the lead-up to Christmas.

“I used to be a cleaner too. My auntie used to clean chalets at Pontin’s. I went with her.

“So I’m a lucky girl for what I have now but I don’t take anything for granted.”

Coleen has taken her opportunities. Countless fashion shoots followed a Vogue special, as did lucrative endorsements with Nike, LG phones and Asda.

And she pocketed £150,000 when Universal hooked her up with a personal trainer so she could share her exercise secrets on a DVD. Making the video was hard work but she relished it.

Coleen is also pursuing work in journalism. She once did work experience on a local magazine and fantasised about having her own column. Now she does have one — in a best-selling weekly glossy magazine.

She reveals: “I write it on a Sunday while Wayne watches football.”

Coleen’s first foray into TV presenting was also well-received when she featured on the hard-hitting Tonight With Trevor McDonald, talking about funding for children’s hospices.

It was a cause close to her heart — her nine-year-old sister Rosie, fostered at birth by Coleen’s parents, suffers from the degenerative genetic condition Rett Syndrome and needs hospice care.

The show, which reduced Coleen to tears, dealt with Rosie’s condition and cast Coleen as a serious role model for the first time.

Coleen says: “It was really hard to film as the subject matter was so upsetting but it is something I care deeply about because of Rosie, so the end result was worth it — the Government pledged an extra £27million to help hospices.”Rosie’s health has deteriorated gradually and now she can’t walk or talk and is fed through a tube into her stomach.

Coleen says: “I love her to bits and so does Wayne — she’s my only rival for his heart. He’s her godfather and lifts her up on the bed, lies next to her and sings nursery rhymes to her.

“We would all do anything for Rosie and at first Mum and Dad tried to be there for her 365 days a year. But nobody can do that.

“That’s why hospice care for families is so vital.”

Determined to make the most of her own life, Coleen reveals her burning ambition is to be an actress.

She says: “I was always involved in productions at school. I was never the lead because it was all musicals and I can’t sing, so I’d just get the next part, but I was always a man.

“We did Bugsy Malone and I was Fat Sam. Wayne used to come and watch — he took the whole cast out for dinner one night. I was really made-up.”

Coleen enjoyed a brief appearance in Hollyoaks but wants to make it in acting on her own merit and is taking drama classes and elocution lessons to soften her Scouse accent.

She says: “I love the idea of being in Corrie. When I saw Kym Ryder in the show I thought, ‘Great, that is the kind of role I could pull off’.”

She plans to join a local drama group before deciding on whether to go to drama school.

And she says: “My big dream is to follow Jennifer Ellison or Billie Piper — I’m big fans of them both.”

Her ideal role would be as Mickey’s girlfriend in Willy Russell’s musical Blood Brothers. It’s set on Merseyside and is a show she studied at school.

Coleen adds: “Wayne is dead chuffed for me. But I wouldn’t say I have changed much.

“My lifestyle has certainly changed, but not me. “Yeah, I get invited to fancy premieres and stuff, which is dead nice, but that is the only thing that’s changed.

“The only thing I want is to come across as myself. For who I am. For going out and having a go.”

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I love to play Cat 'n' Moss

She is a huge fan of sexy TV babe Cat Deeley because “she never looks as though she is trying too hard”.

Coleen adds: “Kate Moss is someone whose sense of style I’ve always loved. Sienna Miller used to be a favourite but I really like girls such as Lindsay Lohan and Mischa Barton.”

She believes experimenting is the key to individual style — but says you must have fun.

Mixing trendy designers with vintage and High Street fashion can have a dramatic effect without being too pricey. Coleen also reveals her attitude to diets.

She admits: “I have never been one for fad diets. That’s why I go to WeightWatchers with my mum.

“No one should feel embarrassed about joining a club.”

Coleen says she still can’t resist a chip buttie or McDonald’s.

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COLEEN: I HATE THOSE CONTROLLING DIETS.

MY book isn't an autobiography, I'm too young to write one of those. Instead it's the story of the last few years and all the experiences I've faced.

LIKE MY DAD SAYS, A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING IS ALWAYS GOOD FOR YOU

I'VE got friends who can just eat and eat whatever they want and stay the same shape.

Unfortunately, like most girls, I'm the total opposite. If I eat and eat and eat then, guess what, I put weight on!

So, sometimes I'll cut down a little and maybe exercise a bit more and, hey presto, I'll lose a few pounds.

My view is that as long as you are happy with your own shape then that's all that matters.

You can't let others determine how much you should weigh and what you should wear. The fact is that there are some fashions that look better on a slimmer figure but, like I've always said, "I'm me and I'll wear what I like and what I think I look good in."

I'm surrounded by family and close friends who'll tell me their opinion if they think I've put a bit of weight on.

If I turn to my eldest brother Joe, I know he'll be honest with me. I asked him recently whether I'd got bigger and he said, "Yeah, you looked like a stump when you were walking the other day!" We can't all be blessed with long legs like Gisele!I'm not and never have been one for fad diets. That's why I used to go to WeightWatchers with my mum.

It isn't a bad diet, it's not to do with starving yourself. Every now and again I'll go with my mum to the local church club at Queen Martyrs in Croxteth.

I prefer to go to a place where I'm surrounded by people I know and down there it's full of neighbours and friends I used to go to school with. Sometimes I'll go to the local sports centre and join a class. The last one I took was a body-combat class. I prefer a slimming diet that allows you to eat normal food as long as you don't overindulge. Not that I'm dieting all the time.

It's only recently that we've had a set of scales in the house and that's because Wayne decided to buy some so he could keep track of his own weight. I sometimes use them but I'm not obsessed.

I believe it's what you feel inside that counts, not what's on the scales. Instead, I'll rely on how I feel about myself, or how I feel inside my clothes.

I can't stand those diets that say you can't eat this and that. Like my dad says, "a little bit of everything is always good for you." All this talk of food is making me hungry!

During the week I'll aim to have cereal for breakfast - Cornflakes or Sugar Puffs - with semi-skimmed milk. Then for lunch I'll have a salad or a sandwich, although I hate buying sandwiches because they put loads of rubbish in them.

At Mum's maybe I'll have soup or spaghetti hoops, just on their own, warmed up. Then in the evening I'll try to have a proper meal with Wayne. When it gets to Friday, I'll often go round to my friends' houses and start picking at stuff.

On the Saturday after a night out it's difficult to avoid eating rubbish. If I'm out shopping with mates in Liverpool on the Saturday then we might pick up a butty or a McDonald's on the way home.

I've got to admit that I can't resist the taste of McDonald's. I think my cravings date back to when I was a kid and my favourite game was playing "shop" with this huge toy drive-through McDonald's.

Mum's still got it now, somewhere up in the loft. She says she wants to keep it in case she has grandchildren!

Wayne just likes me in normal gear.. he's not big on me showing a lot of flesh off

MY book isn't an autobiography, I'm too young to write one of those. Instead it's the story of the last few years and all the experiences I've faced.

Hopefully I'll be able to tell you what it's really been like living in the spotlight while trying to stay true to myself and my background.

It really has been every young girl's dream come true. And the book's as much about my life as it is my love of fashion, style and beauty. And, of course, shopping!

I'm no longer the 16-year-old seen in the papers walking to school in that knee-length puffa jacket.

I'm 20 now and I've grown up inside and out. Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman once wrote that I was "a phenomenon of our time". I'm not sure I'd go that far but I do love fashion.

Wayne prefers me in casual jeans and a T-shirt. Mind, he has also said that my bum looks massive in my Juicy tracksuit, but I don't take any notice!

He likes me in normal gear. He's not big on me showing off a lot of flesh. If I do wear something sexier he becomes Mr Fashion Expert! "I can see your knickers through that," he'll say. And his ultimate tactic is: "'Ask your dad."

Not long ago, I'd been invited to a Childline charity do and I had on a sheer white dress. My dad made such a big fuss that I borrowed one of my mum's underskirts.

Trouble was, I had to chop a few inches off the bottom. All night, frayed cotton was dangling down and I had to keep burning it off with a lighter!

MY SIX GOLDEN RULES OF FASHION

1 NEVER be afraid to experiment. An item of clothing will never hurt anyone.

2 THE more money you spend doesn't necessarily mean the more style you buy.

Team up designer with high street and a touch of vintage.

3 ACCESSORIZE! Accessorize! Accessorize! That doesn't mean go all bling, but you can change the accent of an outfit just by adding a simple scarf or necklace.

4 BE true to yourself. Don't be a fashion victim, wear what suits you no matter what the magazines say this season.

5 LESS is more. Don't go trying to over-dress in everyday situations. You can look good without looking like you've just stepped out of the pages of a magazine.

6 HAVE fun. If you look in the mirror and like what you see then that's the only compliment you need.

MY PET HATES

1 VERY short skirts with high heels. Unless your name happens to be Beyonce and you are singing Crazy In Love you have no excuse. It's not sexy.

2 VISIBLE thongs above trousers' waistbands. The modern-day female equivalent of builder's bum. Very unattractive.

3 SEEING double. If you are appearing on Strictly Come Dancing then fine, but otherwise girlfriends and boyfriends should not wear matching out fit s. Unless they're six years old, in which case it's officially cute.

4 CLEAVAGE overload. Message to all those girls who take their fashion tips from men's magazines: keep them hidden and keep them guessin'.

5 SILLY hats. Riding hats and clown cones are good for fancy dress, but never mistake eccentricity for individuality.

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Coleen porn movie shock

21/02/07

SHOCKED Coleen McLoughlin has told how Wayne Rooney went wild when the couple were tricked into watching porn.

The fiery footballer flipped when one of his younger brothers played the X-rated prank on one of Wayne’s first dates with Coleen.

Wayne’s brother slipped the blue movie on the end of a taped episode of Footballers’ Wives.

The lovebirds, both then 16, were stunned.

Then Wayne rushed into his brother’s bedroom and bashed him with the tape.

The rising footie star and Coleen had asked Wayne’s mum to record the programme for them.

“The programme finished and the next thing we know we’re staring at some porn video,” Coleen revealed.

“I was just sitting there not knowing what to do. Next thing, Wayne ran into his brother’s bedroom and started whacking him round the head with the tape. Wayne’s brother had stitched us up.”

Her saucy confession came as DJ Chris Moyles, 32, told Radio 1 listeners yesterday: “I really fancy Coleen. She is so slutty.”

He admitted the crush after hearing how Wayne, 21, had once rescued her naked from the sea when a current pulled her bikini off.

Coleen, 20, admitted her love of junk food has left her with every WAG’s worst nightmare – cellulite on her bum.

“I’ve always had a bum. Even if I went dead skinny it’d still be there. The bum runs in the family,” she said.

Her cellulite-busting routine includes lying on the floor and doing “weird” cheek-clenching exercises.

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Coleenation St

20/02/07

COLEEN McLoughlin is set to become the new face of Coronation Street without even appearing in it.

Football ace Wayne Rooney’s fiancée could hit the screen before every episode after Asda emerged as red-hot favourite to be the soap’s new sponsors.

Coleen, 20, has a £3 million contract to be the face of the supermarket chain’s George clothing range.

Insiders say she could star in Asda ads before every Corrie episode, replacing Cadbury’s range of chocolate products.

And that would make her the most often-seen celebrity on British telly.

According to marketing sources Asda has won the battle to become Corrie’s next sponsor.

Bosses have targeted the £10m-a-year contract as part of a new drive to be seen as a “common sense” retailer.

They believe being linked with Britain’s most watched soap will help them fight off Sainsbury’s bid to overtake them in the UK supermarket league table.

Asda currently lies second behind Tesco with a 16.8% slice of Britain’s
grocery business. But Sainsbury’s market share is 16.5% and rising.

And a company source said: “The pressure is on to first of all fend off Sainsbury’s and secondly close the gap on Tesco. The sponsorship of Coronation Street has been earmarked as a major opportunity to unite two of Britain’s leading household names.

“It is widely perceived Cadbury’s sponsorship has been massively beneficial to the company both in terms of raising its profile and its products.

“We believe that Asda could benefit in a similar way. Coleen is regarded as one of the company’s biggest weapons.

“She could end up with the most watched face on British TV!”

Official bidding for the sponsorship is due to start next month.

But a senior marketing source said last night: “As far as the industry is concerned Asda is Corrie’s new sponsor.

“They wanted it and we believe they have got it.”

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Coleen's fashion gaffes exposed

When Coleen McLoughlin announced she was writing a style manual, cynics questioned whether an advocate of rabbit fur shoes and neon yellow moon boots was ideally placed to dispense sartorial advice.

Which may explain why the Liverpudlian appears to favour the 'do I as I say, not as I do' approach to fashion.

Day-glo Coleen was known as a 'chav' for her street outfits

So, admirable though her sartorial tips undoubtedly are, the 20-year-old fiancee of Wayne Rooney herself regularly ignores them.

Advising readers not be "fashion victims", Miss McLoughlin seems to have forgotten all about her fluorescent Marc Jacob moon boots and matching puffa jacket.

Where on earth did you get that jacket Coleen?

Or, indeed, her infamous velour Juicy Couture tracksuits - the very same tracksuits, in fact, that once earned her the sobriquet, queen of the Chavs.

In another embarrassing faux pas, she instructs readers to "experiment", adding that an "item of clothing will never hurt anyone".

Try telling that to the seven rabbits that died in the making of her £260 Mukluk fur boots.

Looking casual in a velour tracksuit - but it's a fashion no-no

While Miss McLoughlin certainly sticks to the motto, 'have fun', she cannot always be happy with what she sees in the mirror.

She cannot, for example, be thrilled at photographs of her multicoloured padded jacket, unflattering, baggy tracksuit bottoms, and large carrier bag combo.

Similarly, one of her pet hates - "visible thongs above waistbands" is again something she herself as been guilty of.

At last summer's World Cup, she was spotted hitching up her jeans, struggling to hide an all too visible knicker line.

Another of her dislikes, "cleavage overload", is also an unfortunate oversight.

While her individual sense of style has improved over the past four years, Miss McLoughlin is not adverse to exposing rather too much decolletage.

Her final pet hate - the wearing of "silly hats" - is also a little strange given that the model and face of Asda attended a party last summer, wearing an elegant three-tiered rara skirt - teamed with a ridiculous, eight-inch high flowered hairpiece.

Despite such glaring contradictions, Miss McLoughlin will still be dishing out lifestyle and fashion advice as part of a lucrative seven figure deal with ITV to host a new Saturday night show.

Her latest book, however, looks set to net the former council estate girl a small fortune.

It is just one of several million pound-plus deals that she has secured over the past 18 months.

Since shedding her 'Chav' tag, Miss McLoughlin has brought out a fitness DVD and become the face of brands including Diet Coke, Nike, George at Asda and LG.

Of course, she is not the first WAG - wife and girlfriend of a footballer - to go against her own sartorial advice.

Victoria Beckham, in her recent coffee table style manual, contradicted herself throughout her glossy tome.

Coleen's Golden Rules and Pet Hates:

1) Never be afraid to experiment. An item of clothing will never hurt anyone.

2) Be true to yourself; don't be a fashion victim. Wear what suits you no matter what the magazines say this season.

3) Have fun. If you look in the mirror and like what you see then that's the only compliment you need.

4) Visible thongs above trousers' waistbands. The modern-day female equivalent of builder's bum. Very unattractive.

5) Cleavage overload. Message to all those girls who take their fashion tips from men's magazines: keep them hidden and keep them guessin'.

6) Silly hats. Riding hats and clown cones are good for fancy dress but never mistake eccentricity for individuality.

www.mailonsunday.co.uk

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Colleen's joke on us

If it's all a game — and many swear blind it is — Wayne Rooney's girlfriend Coleen McLoughlin has won the gold for exploiting our addiction to celebrity.

It turns out that her acting career consisted of a single line of dialogue in Hollyoaks. Now fast forward to the deals with Coca-Cola, Nike and Asda, worth £3.5million, not to mention the autobiography and fitness DVD.

Her skill is in presenting herself as the sweet side of the Rooney product: the redeeming counterweight to his belligerence, his outlaw scowl.

Convention dictates that we should crowbar them into the showbiz marriage category, and wait for them to explode like Paul and Heather McCartney.

This is too jaundiced for me, because they have one crucial advantage. They became entwined long before Rooney was famous. Coleen benefits greatly from the association, but that was not her starting point.

If it's one big comedy of image projection, the joke's on us, not her.

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Colleen mobi is top WAG gadget

February 22, 2007

A MOBILE phone, endorsed by Colleen McCloughlin, has been named the WAG gadget of the year.

The LG Chocolate handset - so called because it looks like a bar of the sweet stuff - took the coveted gong while another phone, from top Italian designer Roberto Cavalli, was named runner-up.

The awards were hosted by Shiny Media, which runs leading gadget websites techdigest.tv and shinyshiny.tv, and editor Katie Lee said: "The Chocolate phone has great looks and good functionality – it's the epitome of what WAGs stand for!"

Other big winners at the technology event held in London last night included the Nintendo Wii, which trumped all the opposition including Apple's iPod Nano to win European Gadget of the Year.

The category was voted on by more than 5,000 gizmo fans from the UK, Spain, Italy, Germany and France.

In another twist on the usual awards format, an MP3 music player made by Samsung was crowned ASBO gadget of the year - thanks to its pullout speaker allowing music to be pumped out loudly from it on the train or bus.

Boss of Shiny Media Ashley Norris said: "It was a great idea putting decent speakers on a tiny MP3 player but we do fear some bus passengers may suffer from these powerful speakers if the current trend of playing music on tinny mobile phone speakers is anything to go by.

"But I suspect some ASBO owners will prefer our runner-up, those Heely trainers with wheels in the bottom. They are ideal for, ahem, quick getaways."

Also recognised by the judges were The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Game of the Year), Sky for Best High Definition TV Contribution and the low power Evesham Crusader Carbonthree PC which was named Green Gadget of the Year.

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COLEEN STAR PALS WARNING

FRIENDS attending Coleen McLoughlin’s 21st birthday party have been told not to embarrass her by asking celebrity pals for autographs.

The invite for Coleen’s bash tells them they will be unable to use their phones to take pictures or video.

To make sure, they are being confiscated on arrival at Thornton Manor, in Wirral, Merseyside.

The 300-strong guest list includes Girls Aloud, Take That, David and Victoria Beckham, former Atomic Kittens Liz McLarnon and Natasha Hamilton and US rap star P Diddy.

There are also dozens of footballers.

But scores of friends from the Croxteth estate in Liverpool — where Coleen and fiance Wayne Rooney, 21, grew up — are also on the guest list.

The exquisite lilac and pink invitation cards tell them not to SEEK autographs, CARRY mobiles, TAKE photos or RECORD videos.

The card says: “We ask guests to refrain from using any recording equipment. To comply with this all such items must be submitted to security on arrival.”

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COLEEN TO STAR ON US FASHION TV

COLEEN McLoughlin is set to follow in the footsteps of Posh Spice and take the US by storm with a new TV show.
Top American network ABC want Man United star Wayne Rooney's 20-year-old fiancee to front a new fashion show.

A source said: "Soccer is really going to take off once David Beckham arrives at LA Galaxy.

"It's thought Rooney will be big in America too and that will make Coleen a major name.

"They have seen some of the stuff she has done on British TV and they love her natural style."

The news comes just weeks after Victoria Beckham, 32, signed a £10million TV deal for a fashion reality show with rival NBC.

www.people.co.uk

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A SIX-PAGE INVITE.. AND A £500K PARTY BILL
EXCLUSIVE Revealed: secrets of Coleen's 21st

IT'S the hottest ticket in town... the invite to Coleen McLouglin's 21st birthday bash. And in true WAG style you could say it's, well, a little over the top.

Forget a plain card simply telling you where to go and when to turn up. Coleen has come up with an astonishing lilac and pink six-page creation, bound like a book.

Not happy just with a picture of herself on the front with a flower placed artfully over her ear, Coleen has also chosen to feature close-ups of her lips and eyes.

And if you were lucky enough to be asked to go, you'd quickly realise it's actually not so much just an invitation... more a book of instructions.

There's a reply slip, of course. And details of how to get to magnificent Thornton Manor, in Wirral, Merseyside, where the £500,000 bash is being held on March 31. But there's also a lot of DON'Ts listed such as don't ask the other guests for autographs or expect to walk in with a mobile phone, camera or video as they'll be taken off you.

The invite reads: "We would respectfully ask that guests refrain from using any recording or photographic equipment. In order to fully comply with this request all such items are to be submitted to security upon arrival and will be returned on departure."

Coleen and her fiance, Manchester United and England striker Wayne Rooney, 21, have already sent the invites out to their 300 guests, including David and Victoria Beckham, Sven Goran Eriksson, former Atomic Kittens Liz McLarnon and Natasha Hamilton plus Man U, Everton and England stars such as Steven Gerrard and Alex Curran and a host of Coleen's fellow WAGs.

Girls Aloud and the Sugababes will be providing the music. And acrobats and trapeze artists will be entertaining the guests. An insider said: "Wayne told Coleen money is no object. And Coleen is determined her 21st will be just as big, even better, than the one Victoria threw before the World Cup."

So if an invite might be on its way, you'll know when it's arrived by the thud on the doormat. Just make sure the dog doesn't chew it up...

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Bald truth behind Coleen's extensions

From the front her hair looked full and lustrous but viewed from the back it was a different story for Coleen McLoughlin who appeared to have a bald patch.

It looks like all the over-styling and stress from the hair extensions is finally taking its toll on the WAG who celebrates her 21st birthday this month.

The face of supermarket Asda's fashion range was on her way to Nobu restaurant after a book signing to promote her autobiography 'Welcome To My World'.

Heading for trouble?: From the front Coleen's hair looks full and healthy but from behind the bald patch tells a different story

Coleen was criticised during the World Cup when she flew 900 miles from Germany to Liverpool and back again just to get her hair extensions and colour retouched by her favourite hairdresser.

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