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Wayne Rooney again!!

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Firefly111 · 26/08/2019 07:40

Pics of him in the press today with other women, you’d think he’d learn wouldnt you.

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NoCauseRebel · 26/08/2019 08:53

Am not sure why the press continually publish this shite tbh. His wife knows, so what is there to be gained in plastering it all over the media.

And truth be told I think that this kind of behaviour is pretty much the norm among celebs. It’s not particularly edifying but it is what it is really.

BunchMunch · 26/08/2019 08:59

No doubt she will give him another ultimatum. Then possibly a 'make or break' holiday. Give it a few months and she'll announce she is pregnant.

It's so predictable!

Iamthewombat · 26/08/2019 09:01

She wouldn’t be in poverty, no, but she would lose her celebrity status.

Regions outside London don’t have much in the way of celebrity occupants: you’re unlikely to see George Clooney in Sheffield, for example. In the north west, the stock of famous people consists of:

  • TV newsreaders
  • Hollyoaks cast
  • Real Housewives Of Cheshire
  • Footballers and WAGs
  • The odd musician or singer not famous enough to move to London

So Colleen gets good tables cleared for her in the posh bars, she is welcomed into restaurants with deference, she gets to go into the VIP enclosure at the races and shops make an enormous fuss of her. However, her celebrity status is entirely down to her husband. What else does she have?

What happens if she divorces him? He finds a new girlfriend, and if she sticks around, she takes Colleen’s spot as the queen bee. She won’t like that, no matter how big her divorce settlement!

Nothingcomesforfree · 26/08/2019 09:16

I think the fact they were together before they were famous must count for a lot of it. They’ve been through so much together from very young Thats pretty irreplaceable and they both know it.
I’m guessing Colleen thinks the family unit is worth staying for.

JudgeLinda · 26/08/2019 09:19

He certainly looks like his nickname shrek.

images.app.goo.gl/vBUNPR23uTmeiKSt7

Maybe83 · 26/08/2019 09:25

All this bullshit about staying with him to keep her life style.

She would clean up in a divorce she is with him since their teens married and has 4 small children. She could divorce him and spend her life flying the world holidaying and still be absolutely loaded.

I think it has fuck all to do with money and actually that she does really love him and doesnt want to break her family up.

He is responsible for his actions no one else.

Maybe83 · 26/08/2019 09:28

Irrelevant of her divorce I'm sure she could still get a table at a bar if she so wished.

I'm sure that's exactly why she stays...a VIP experience. Nothing to do with the 4 small children she has or her ten year marriage and life she has built but definitely the no queuing to get in a nightclub. That's definitely worth level of humiliation and commentary heaped on her.

LifeOfBox · 26/08/2019 09:31

I imagine it must be very difficult to leave a luxurious lifestyle and security for yourself and your children

This is absolutely unreal - women leave abusive situations with their children and the clothes they stand up in for refuges, not knowing where the next tin of baked beans on toast will come from.

Rapidmama · 26/08/2019 09:33

She’s a pretty staunch catholic, divorce may not be on the cards. Plus her parents have been together for ever.

Not that that’s an excuse, if she was my daughter I’d be telling her to leave ASAP

Rapidmama · 26/08/2019 09:34

She’s rich enough on her own name to live her lifestyle ten times over. I doubt she stays for the money

Moominfan · 26/08/2019 09:36

I think they must have an arrangement. She just gets pissed off when he gets caught

ChloeDecker · 26/08/2019 09:49

I believe she stays because she loves him and because she wants her children to have an unbroken family. She has been with him since they were children and he didn't have a pot to piss in.

They were not even married when he first cheated on her in quite a spectacularly public fashion. She had no children then and yet still took him back. I wonder why??
She also only got together with him after he was picked for the youth team. It’s documented that she knew him prior to that but didn’t ‘associate’ with him and approached him very quickly after his new found ‘school celebrity status’.

Yes absolutely it is his fault for continuously cheating but posters have every right to point out reasons why she would keep taking him back and having more children with him, when most self respecting women would be long gone. Now Una Healy I respect-her husband caught cheating once, that’s it, he’s told to leave. Very difficult to do so and I admire her self respect.

Patroclus · 26/08/2019 09:49

You shoud all read the book by The Secret Footballer. This kind of thing going on right under their wife's nose is completely normal in the industry.

Patroclus · 26/08/2019 09:51

This is from when all that super injunction stuff was going on.

www.theguardian.com/football/2011/apr/23/footballers-affairs-super-injunctions

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 26/08/2019 09:59

He isn’t the only footballer behaving this way he is just the one the press report on

They are encouraged to settle young before they are ready, they have their life micro managed, the get paid ludicrous amounts of money, they are spoilt and women will be all over them because they are famous

I think many a young mans dream is to have this life he is living it and doesn’t want to grow up yet and he hasn’t grown up and he has a wife that puts up with it time and time again many women do his it isn’t a press story

He was like his before they got married he won’t change this is who he is you can only pretend to look the other way for so long

HollysTeflonSeptum · 26/08/2019 10:04

My god I think Iamthewombat has nailed it.

HeffaLump1 · 26/08/2019 10:06

Must be awful to be married to a man who is so unattractive that he actually has to pay prostitutes to sleep with him. Most footballers must have women throwing themselves at them, but he has to pay Hmm

HollysTeflonSeptum · 26/08/2019 10:08

Good point Heffa.

How good can the sex be without mutual attraction. I feel sorry for them in a way.

LemonAddict · 26/08/2019 10:09

I think Colleen genuinely loves him... more than she loves herself.

And that means she will continue to put up with it.

I don’t think it’s for the fame or money at all.

fandabbyfannyflutters · 26/08/2019 10:11

Who gives a fuck if he's not the best looking footballer- he still treats his wife and family like shit he could be an Adonis and he would still be a massive cunt

IAskTooManyQuestions · 26/08/2019 10:13

I have zero sympathy for Colleen, she has made a rod for her own back.
She must really love the lifestyle and the 'cachet' of being married to him.

They've been together since they were school kids, long before he was famous, or signed up, he was a YTS. She's also a catholic and devoted to her faith - which MN will mock her for, having 'sky fairies' and other such derogatory terms.

But ultimately, her life, her marriage is her business, no one elses.

None of know these people, you just salivate over what story the media is pumping out this week. I think it's quite sad that empty lives just sit to pick through others perceived misfortune.

ElloBrian · 26/08/2019 10:14

At some point in the next few years his playing career will end and the money is going to run out. (I very much doubt he has the aptitude for high level management or sports commentary, which are his two main future career options). I can’t imagine they’ve saved much, given their spending habits. From a purely financial view, now is absolutely the right time for her to divorce him and get a solid settlement.

Redcrayons · 26/08/2019 10:14

She’s rich enough on her own name to live her lifestyle ten times over
Of course she isn't.

He's currently earning over a million a year in US at the tail end of his career. He was earning hundreds of thousands a week at his peak. What job has she ever done that earnt anything like that kind of money?

I don't know if she stays for the lifestyle/money or because she loves him. I've known women put up with the same shot for a lot less than a big mansion in Cheshire.

IAskTooManyQuestions · 26/08/2019 10:18

Now Una Healy I respect-her husband caught cheating once, that’s it, he’s told to leave. Very difficult to do so and I admire her self respect.

Bet she didn't leave without a payday though Wink

Colleen would be far better of finalncially is she left him, she has her own career now, she has a name in her own right, she isn't just Mrs Rooney, and even if she were, well, the payday would fund a lovely lifestyle where she could dabble - obviously she doesn't want to.

PrincessHoneysuckle · 26/08/2019 10:21

She should divorce him and get some dignity

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