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Wayne Rooney again!!

181 replies

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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ChicCroissant · 26/08/2019 14:19

She night even find her stock rising as his, dare I say it? Wanes

Sheer genius, Enrique Grin

KatherineJaneway · 26/08/2019 14:27

Shed hardly be living in poverty if she left him though.

But it would be a heck of a step down if she did leave him. There is a hierarchy of famous people and she'd drop very low on that list compared to what she is now. Also she would no longer have his income, how would she support herself in her current lavish lifestyle and that of her kids?

I think she's doing a Charlotte Lucas.

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 26/08/2019 14:30

Coleen doesn’t leave because she doesn’t want to be an Elen Rivers....fair enough she wasn’t married to lampard but she had a pretty big step down the social and financial ladder and he moved on to a seemingly faithful relationship ...must sting

EmpressJewel · 26/08/2019 14:37

I always wondered what her parents think of WRs behaviour. It must be difficult seeing their daughter treated badly but also knowing that the whole family have benefitted from WR (even if indirectly).

MidweekObscurity · 26/08/2019 15:07

She night even find her stock rising as his, dare I say it? Wanes
GrinGrin V v good Enrique

I wouldn't underestimate the fear of losing status. I can't remember which Hollywood first wife it was (I think Mrs Costner), but the invites stopped abruptly.

Again, idle speculation, could be one night stands are tolerated, but a regular girlfriend wouldn't be. You never know what goes on behind closed doors.

KickOffTheSundayShoes · 26/08/2019 15:59

It's hardly to do with the money- she would have loads if she divorced him. I doubt she's bothered by the 'prestige' of being married to him either. Most likely she wants to keep her family together. She's been with him all of her adult life, and no doubt, as another poster said, he'd be off with as many women as possible if they did seperate then marry again soon after. She probably can't stand the thought of him marrying and having another family. I feel for her, actually. But the time really has come to leave him, for her boys sake if she won't do it for her.

Sagradafamiliar · 26/08/2019 16:24

He looks absolutely pathetic and attention seeking in those photos, 'trying not to draw attention to himself' in a cap and bloody hoody. Klaxon call combo to gold diggers out there. Money's the only thing he's got going for him the poor sod.

31RueCambon75001 · 26/08/2019 16:26

She'll NEVER leave him.

ourmamageddon · 26/08/2019 16:28

LOL at 'porking about'

Cherryade8 · 26/08/2019 16:51

Her family isn't 'unbroken' it's seriously broken and dysfunctional. I think shes pretty selfish to stay with him, it isn't helpful to her children to live in such a dysfunctional set-up. I say that as someone whose dm stayed with df despite his constant cheating. Not a pleasant environment but dm didnt want to change her lifestyle.

31RueCambon75001 · 26/08/2019 16:58

I'm rolling my eyes at the staunch catholic explanation for putting up with a husband who visits prostitutes and so on.

It's not Catholicism to stick your head in the sand and deny all facts and reality. People who are too scared to end the relationship may hide behind ''Catholicism'' though.

I think she has been with him since she was a teenager and sadly she feels unable to imagine being without him, even having him there to be angry at is probably easier to imagine than actually just going it alone... with four of his children

ForalltheSaints · 26/08/2019 17:22

In the US the sponsors who are funding his stay at Derby would have withdrawn the funding, cannot see that happening here.

Juog · 26/08/2019 17:23

Hahaha potato in a hoody,don't know who said that but it's made me laugh.

AbsentmindedWoman · 26/08/2019 18:12

If she's been with him since very young, she's never had a chance to be on her own.

Maybe she's intimidated by the idea of that?

Cheeseoncrumpets · 26/08/2019 18:13

He is just awful. But then I remember reading years ago that he pursued her for ages when they were kids, and she wasnt interested. Until she found out he was signed by Everton....

RedForShort · 26/08/2019 18:28

I think Catholics can get an annulment (though children complicate it) if one partner is shagging anything from random people in bars, as well as their parents and grandparents.

(Though don't think the grounds for annulment is that specific- but one spouse shagging around does mean they didn't intend to maintain their vows in the first place or something like that.)

ChloeDecker · 26/08/2019 18:34

But then I remember reading years ago that he pursued her for ages when they were kids, and she wasnt interested. Until she found out he was signed by Everton....

I’ve read that too.

Betaboo · 26/08/2019 18:46

She will lose her 'status', sooner or later he and she will become irrelevant.

I agree with those who say she should exit the marriage now, he definitely has the risk of becoming a Gazza or George Best.

Totally feel for her, haven't they been together since they were 14 ?

LifeOfBox · 26/08/2019 18:51

Well, if they have been together since they were 14 you really can’t be judgemental about a 14 year old being mercenary enough to judge him being signed for whoever it was back then - she was just a kid.

My own 13 year old wouldn’t be able to comprehend what any of that might mean.

ChloeDecker · 26/08/2019 18:58

She wasn’t a kid when he was caught with the ‘granny prostitute’ and nor was she married then. Still took him back and enjoyed her fancy wedding...

LifeOfBox · 26/08/2019 19:06

I know very little about them, I am too old and have never been remotely interested in football culture, but you can’t say she wasn’t interested until he was signed for a £££££ club about a 14 year old girl.

31RueCambon75001 · 26/08/2019 19:18

The reason she doesn't leave him is I'd guess a phenomenon that is very common. Not knowing that she won't regret it.

She wouldn't regret it! She'd be glad she did, but this is why it took me so long {omg, lost years} to leave my x. Because I wanted some sort of guarantee handed to me by the universe that I wouldn't regret it.

And you only get that when you're brave enough to leave anyway, leave ''blind'' certain that whatever comes next you will be ok.

I had a bf when I was 17 -22 and it was so hard splitting up. Just like you didn't know what would be left of yourself if you split up.

Whatsnewpussyhat · 26/08/2019 22:42

you really can’t be judgemental about a 14 year old being mercenary enough to judge him being signed for whoever it was back then - she was just a kid

At 14 growing up in Liverpool I would've known that being signed up to one biggest clubs would be a massive deal and that the potential earnings for a top class player would be sky high.

Still wouldn't have gone near the potato in a hoody though, he's a proper mingerGrin

Iamthewombat · 26/08/2019 23:26

The idea of Colleen being a wealthy money maker in her own right is as ludicrous as ‘independent film maker in his own right, David Furnish’ ever getting near a proper film without the help of Elton John.

Seriously, does anybody think that little Colleen from her bog standard Merseyside comprehensive school would have been asked to write (they are actually ghostwritten) columns for magazines, or endorsed perfume, or pretended to design clothes for Littlewoods catalogue, if she hadn’t been Mrs Wayne Rooney? It was nothing to do with her own talent or skill.

Even Abbey Clancy couldn’t spin a media career out of her Strictly win, and she and her husband are a much more appealing prospect than the Rooneys.

Colleen actually got some GCSEs, unlike Wayne, but there’s no sign of her having done further study, or attempted to get a degree, or worked towards a career. No, she just concentrated on building up her collection of Balenciaga handbags.

That’s why the ‘worried about losing her status’ argument is the most convincing. As for the ‘staunch Catholic’ theory: don’t make me laugh. Every priest I know would advise a woman to bin off a man who behaved like Wayne Rooney. The poster who drew a parallel with Ellen Rives is bang on.

VladmirsPoutine · 27/08/2019 03:35

I think she doesn't want to make room for the next potential Mrs Rooney. As a PP said he'd be engaged and married before the ink on the divorce papers are dry and then a whole circus of step mother being pictured out and about with her kids would probably piss her off no end.

That said, get in where you can. Life is bloody tough - she had herself sorted at the age of 14.