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Coleen McLoughlin (born
3 April 1986 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England) is the fiancée of Manchester
United F.C. and England football star, Wayne Rooney. The media interest in
Rooney has enabled Coleen to become a celebrity in her own right. She regularly
appears in the English tabloids amidst accusations of doing nothing but shopping
all day and frequently holidaying in sunny locations. She is therefore viewed by
some as a quintessential "footballer's wife". She was also one of the more
prominent WAGs during the 2006 World Cup.
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Early
life
McLoughlin was born to
Tony, who was a bricklayer and ran a boxing club, and Colette, who was a nursery
nurse. She is one of four children. McLoughlin met Wayne Rooney when she was 12
and when they were living in the Liverpool suburb of Croxteth. His mother,
Jeanette, worked as a part-time cleaner at St John Bosco, her Roman Catholic
school.
Rooney famously took
McLoughlin to the cinema to see Austin Powers 2 on their first date.
McLoughlin left school
with 10 GCSEs, including an A* for Performing Arts. She has long harboured
dreams of becoming an actress, having starred in high school productions of
Bugsy Malone and Grease.
Life
with Wayne
Wayne proposed to
McLoughlin on the forecourt of a BP garage when she was 17 with a £46,500
diamond engagment ring.
Later that year she
left school and landed a small part in Hollyoaks, the Merseyside television
soap. “I was getting offered acting parts and I couldn’t take them because of my
school work,” she said. The dream couple, dubbed Wayleen, moved into a new £1.3m
mansion in nearby Formby. They now live in a £3.5 million mansion in Cheshire
complete with 7 plasma televisions and a £30,000 state-of-the-art security
system. [citation needed]
Charity work
In 2004 McLoughlin
officially launched the countdown to the national Jeans for Genes Day in
celebration of the appeal's 10th birthday. She said: "I can't wait to wear my
jeans on Friday. My little sister Rosie has Rett syndrome, so I know how
important research is. Please join in!"
McLoughlin's sister
Rosie (aged seven) suffers from the genetic condition Rett Syndrome. The Rett
Syndrome Association is one of the benefiting charities of Jeans for Genes Day
2005.[1]
Media
work
McLoughlin has her own
column in the celebrity magazine Closer entitled "Welcome to My World".[2] Since
her decision to write the column it has boosted the magazine sales. She has
decided to take this job up as it combines her passions of fashion and
journalism.
McLoughlin also tried
her hand at presenting, when in May 2006, she assisted Sir Trevor McDonald on
his show Tonight with Trevor McDonald in a programme about genetic Rett
syndrome.
She also won the Ariel
high street fashion award (as voted for by the public) for 'Best Dressed
Female', turning up to the event in a Topshop dress. She also presented awards
at the Elle Style awards, Television awards and also presented an award to Best
Dressed Female at Aintree in which she handed out the prizes, of which included
a shopping bag from McLoughlin's favourite store, Liverpool boutique Cricket.
In May 2006, McLoughlin
became the face of the LG Chocolate Slider phone in the UK. [3]
During the same month,
she signed a £1 million deal with Harpercollins to produce a fashion and
lifestyle book. [4]
McLoughlin also has an
exercise DVD on sale in the UK, entitled Coleen McLoughlin's Brand New Body
Workout, which became a bestseller.[5]
She was also paid £3
million to front the George at Asda campaign.[citation needed]
Coleen's autobiography,
Welcome to my World, is due to be released next year.
Shopping Habits
A famed shopaholic,
McLoughlin's keen eye for fashion and her colourful, eye-catching ensembles have
marked her out as a style icon in some quarters, though in other circles she is
seen as a fashion victim. Coleen caused some controversy by being chosen to
appear in British Vogue. Some people felt that she was unworthy of such
celebrity.[6] Editor Alexandra Shulman defended the magazine's decision, calling
McLoughlin "beautiful" and praising her "brilliant sense of style".Many Fashion
insiders are still critical of her sense of style to date and still see her as
chav and not an icon of style despite the parse by the English tabloids in which
she regularly appears in . .One of McLoughlin's most vocal detractors has been
fellow Liverpudlian Paul O'Grady, who has denounced her as being - unlike anyone
else in England or the States - famous for doing nothing.
McLoughlin was
interviewed by fellow 'footballer's wife' Louise Redknapp in the first ever
edition of Icon, a glossy magazine aimed at professional footballers.
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