Coleen opened up to her fellow campmates about the early days of her relationship with Wayne
Coleen Rooney recalled the early days of dating former Everton striker Wayne Rooney in tonight’s episode of I’m a Celebrity. She told campmates she would get “embarrassed” when Wayne showed up to her school in one of his teammate’s cars.
Coleen told her campmates: “I was still at school when he was playing for Everton. I used to walk out and all the girls were going, ‘Whose is that car there?’ And he was in a Bentley and something else and there’s Wayne in the passenger seat with his arm out and one of the players like Thomas Gravesen.”
She added: “I just used to get embarrassed.” Clarifying it wasn’t his car, she said: “He just used to get a lift home.”
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Telling the story of going to her friend’s 18th birthday party, she got a call from Wayne’s cousin beforehand, asking if she spelt her name with one L or two. Asking why, he said: “I’m just with our Wayne in town, he’s getting a tattoo.”
Explaining she’d “not long been going with him. I go to this party later on, and he’s going to everybody like this [mocks showing her arm]. He’d got my name tattooed on him! At 17!”
Coleen met Wayne at school and the childhood sweethearts tied the knot in a fairytale Italian wedding in June 2008. She added: “We got married in Italy and it was hard because we had to leave certain family and that. It did cause a bit of… but do you know what we had four days, and it was the best time ever and I don’t regret it. It was amazing.”
I’m A Celebrity comes after a turbulent period in Coleen’s life when she was massively in the public eye after she accused Rebekah Vardy’s Instagram account of selling stories about her to the press. Coleen subsequently won the high profile Wagatha Christie libel battle and has previously spoken about how she hopes to move on from the incident.
