Coleen and Wayne Rooney's marriage ups and downs: a timeline

Coleen Rooney has done it all: she proudly flew the WAG emblem alongside Victoria Beckham and Cheryl successful the 2000s, became a modern-day detective amid the Wagatha Christie drama, and is present heading to the jungle arsenic an I’m A Celeb campmate. “I bash deliberation radical volition get a amended thought of what benignant of idiosyncratic I am,” she said recently of her upcoming quality connected the show.

She met her husband, iconic shot player-turned-manager Wayne Rooney, erstwhile the brace were inactive successful secondary schoolhouse successful Liverpool, marrying successful 2008. Their 16-year marriage hasn’t ever been a creaseless ride, though.

From cheating allegations and prostitutes to drink-driving offences, here’s a timeline of the ups and downs of the couple’s marriage.

Shortly aft making his nonrecreational shot debut, 18-year-old Rooney projected to a then-17-year-old McLoughlin astatine a petrol presumption with an emerald-cut diamond ringing worthy £46,000, according to Coleen’s mother. Speaking successful a BBC documentary successful 2015, Colette McLoughlin said the mates were expected to spell retired for a repast but Rooney couldn’t hold to popular the question. “They ne'er went retired for the meal. They came location and had corned beef hash,” she said.

A twelvemonth into their engagement, the mates is deed with the archetypal of galore allegations of Rooney’s infidelity. According to the Sunday Mirror, the footballer had visited a Liverpool brothel 10 times – being pictured leaving connected CCTV – wherever helium paid for enactment with 3 women aged 21, 37, and 48. In a nationalist apology, helium said: “Foolish arsenic it present seems, I did connected occasions sojourn massage parlours and prostitutes. I present regret it profoundly and anticipation radical whitethorn recognize that it was the benignant of mistake you marque erstwhile you are young and stupid.”

Although Coleen didn’t remark connected the ungraded astatine the time, she aboriginal revealed successful her 2023 autobiography that she hadn’t had enactment with Wayne earlier helium visited the brothel. “The information is, and I’ve ne'er said this before, astatine that clip successful our relationship, I’d ne'er adjacent slept with Wayne. I was lone 16 and we weren’t having that benignant of narration astatine that stage,” she wrote.

Seemingly moving done Wayne’s archetypal question of infidelity, the mates wed successful Italy successful the summertime of 2008. The time reportedly outgo £5 million, with Westlife and Stereophonics playing astatine the reception. The wedding wasn’t without a hitch, though. A section bishop’s bureau told the mates beforehand that the venue for their spiritual ceremonial – the Abbey of Cervara – wasn’t suitable for weddings. Wayne and Coleen ignored the advice, with the Catholic Church going connected to accidental that their wedding was not valid successful the eyes of the church.

Almost a twelvemonth aft the commencement of their archetypal child, Kai, the mates is rocked by yet different study regarding Wayne’s cheating. This time, erstwhile escort Helen Wood claimed that Wayne had a threesome with her and different enactment idiosyncratic named Jenny Thompson portion Coleen was large – with Wayne going connected dates with Thompson and showing her pictures of Coleen’s ultrasound scans. According to Wood, Wayne regretted the threesome immediately. “He said, ‘I consciousness truly s*** already – I’m begging you 2 not to accidental anything. It volition ruin my matrimony if it gets out’.”

Although the mates didn’t talk connected the claims, Coleen allegedly moved retired of the location they shared and lived with her parents for a little period, until they aboriginal reconciled.

Shortly aft exiting Manchester United aft playing for the squad for 13 years, Wayne made headlines for a antithetic crushed successful September: he’d been arrested and charged for portion driving aft a nighttime retired conscionable extracurricular Manchester. If things couldn’t get immoderate worse, the car helium was driving wasn’t his ain – it belonged to a section woman, Laura Simpson, whom he’d met that evening.

Coleen, who was large with the couple’s 4th kid and connected vacation with her parents and children astatine the time, allegedly called Simpson aft the arrest. “She asked maine to archer her what happened,” Simpson told The Sun. “She seemed unhappy with the information that we had near a nightclub successful a cab unneurotic to spell to my car.” She claims she apologised to Coleen.

While the Everton prima was slapped with a two-year driving prohibition and ordered to implicit 100 hours of unpaid work, his “heartbroken” woman took to Facebook to code the incident. “A fewer radical are astir apt reasoning americium [sic] anserine for staying successful my marriage. I americium not stupid, I cognize my ain caput and it’s thing I privation to effort and enactment on,” she wrote. “I cognize I would beryllium good connected my own, with conscionable maine and my children, but I don’t privation to unrecorded similar that, I privation to effort and proceed our matrimony and unrecorded arsenic a family, due to the fact that that’s what I privation to do.”

In her husband’s 2023 Amazon documentary Rooney, Coleen revealed that it astir pushed the mates to breaking point. “I forgive him but it wasn’t acceptable. If it comes up we speech astir it similar we are talking astir it now. I haven’t got the choler I did astatine the time... Life goes connected and I’ve moved on.”

Almost a twelvemonth aft the commencement of the couple’s 4th son, Cass, Wayne is arrested astatine a Virginia airdrome for nationalist intoxication and swearing. He was released connected bail and, a fewer months later, is pictured partying precocious into the nighttime successful Florida with a pistillate bartender implicit Super Bowl weekend.

In August 2019, the footballer is pictured entering a edifice assistance with an chartless pistillate astatine 5.30am aft reportedly partying for 7 hours with his DC United teammates. MailOnline claimed that Coleen demanded her hubby instrumentality to the UK aft seeing the images and removed her wedding ring.

Two years later, aft retiring from playing professionally successful January, images taken by 21-year-old influencer Tayler Ryan and friends showed Wayne dormant successful a edifice country aft a nighttime out. In an apology, the Derby manager says it was a “mistake”. “I went to a backstage enactment with 2 of my friends. From me, I would similar to apologise to my household and the nine for the images which were going round.”

Following the Wagatha Christie saga, some Coleen and Wayne released their respective documentaries. Rooney was released successful 2022 and covered the footballer’s life, vocation and scandals. “Alcohol is simply a batch to blasted and inactive is,” Coleen said of his past behaviour. “It’s not a bully happening for Wayne to beryllium unsupervised.”

Coleen’s Disney Plus bid – titled Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story – tells the communicative of the sleuthing and fallout which led to the iconic case, and touches connected the couple’s rollercoaster marriage. Her hubby – who was a witnesser during the proceedings – besides features successful the series. When called to the stand, helium said Coleen had “become a antithetic parent and a antithetic wife” during the saga, which is acceptable to proceed arsenic Rebekah Vardy precocious launched an appeal successful the latest signifier of the libel battle.