Colleen

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Watched Colleen Rooney in the jungle and now rewatching the wagatha thing on itv2, she just comes across so well, I actually love the background story and wonder even though they have all this money, I wonder if they ever crave those simple days of being 16 before it all kicked off. Just very normal people.
She seems so strong, classy, kind, just a morally good person really.

I really liked her. I wasn't expecting to but I was wrong. She seemed a good, genuine person, a great wife and mum.

She doesn’t just donate to charity, she (and Wayne to be fair) do a lot of behind the scenes work at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. Notably, she’s never been ‘accidentally’ (/s) caught by the paps doing so - it’s genuinely private not celebrity ‘no, no, I don’t want any credit but the paps (that I called) have forced me to make a statement taking credit for my charity work’ private.

I understood Colleen was dating her dh since early teens and before he was im famous.
How anyone can accept his behaviour is beyond me. I wouldn't trust her as far as I'd throw her.

Absolutely everyone in the whole world ‘loves their children to bits’ I always find it really odd when anyone proudly or defensively says this as if it makes them a good person. It is bog standard, starting point normal.

And I think RV was heavily pregnant when Colleen told the media what had happened. I know RV was in the wrong doing what she did, but it was really shitty of Colleen to suddenly put a heavily pregnant woman through all that stress

I find it extraordinary that she is still with Wayne. The multiple sex workers (and these are just the ones he’s been caught with), the drink driving and drunk and disorderly charges. She talks about him as if he were a child. I don’t know how she isn’t repulsed by him. He was like this before they got married so I guess she knew what she was getting into. I certainly don’t blame her for his behaviour but I find it completely mystifying that she stays with him.

They didn’t have four children together at the time when it happened. I don’t think they even had one if I remember correctly.
The truth of the matter is they all do it. Jack Grealish made a complete twat of himself and has gone on to marry his childhood sweetheart and have a baby. Which I believe the football clubs encourage and she would’ve been told in no uncertain terms that the divorce would not be good for His footballing career

Wayne was put through some of the best clubs in Liverpool before being signed to Everton then Manchester united in his mid-late Teens

I think Coleen's lovely but the whole narrative of being with him before he was famous/successful & that he would never find anybody like her if she leaves has probably led to alot of their problems over the years with him buggering off & then trying to make it work with her

Wayne didn't just show up at 18+ with a bit of football talent then get bounced to the top he was on the bloody national team performing in foreign country's at 17 years old

He bought her a lifestyle that enabled her to pick & choose her career while staying at home with her family well into adulthood that's worth more then any financial sum she could have made by divorce or seperation but it's not apart of the love story really

She wouldn’t have been told anything of the kind! It’s not the Hollywood studio system of the 1940s! Absolutely, players are still encouraged to marry young to ‘settle them down’, but clubs don’t intervene in people’s marriages.

There has been another scandal since and that was only a few years ago? He spent the night with someone else or something after being too drunk?

she is staying with him for the lifestyle no question about that. Lots of people do.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/drunk-woman-who-wayne-rooney-11097194

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4369140/wayne-rooney-charged-drink-driving-everton-singing-manchester-united/

normally everyone on MN would tell you to LTB especially after visiting prostitutes but in this case it’s all good 🤦🏻‍♀️

The mansion is big enough to have space between them and doesn’t he work in another part of the country now?

A role model? Someone only famous because of her husband, who she stays with even when he's cheated on her repeatedly with prostitutes? There are far better role models for girls.

I think she’s a role model in terms of dedication to her family, she seems to be a nice person despite her wealth, she’s a good mum of boys, she’s relatable to women (who post every day here) who have to fight to regain their independence after devoting 20 years to their family. She’s a lovely advocate for normalising the experience of kids with additional needs (her sister).

I mean yeah he’s fucked up in extremely public ways, but to me that doesn’t necessarily take away from her, that she stayed. That’s not the part I’d celebrate but you know, life is complicated and not one dimensional.

I think she's nice enough but I'm like others - i can't admire someone who has let themselves be treated like shit by their partner over and over again. And they didn't have kids when he started cheating on her. How can any woman let herself be humiliated like that? And a bit hypocritical of MNetters who shout LTB for normal woman who come on here after being treated like that by their partners to make excuses for him/her!

Maybe women who are heavily pregnant shouldn't do shady things and bring lots of stress into their lives through court cases.

Thousands of people stay together, even if their other half works in Tescos / local warehouse/ council offices.

Wayne has obviously been a total shit on several occasions but Coleen has decided she wants to stick with their marriage. They won't be the first or last to be in that situation.

All of that just seems basic to me, I personally don't celebrate people just because they're not an arsehole, but each to their own (genuinely, I know that could read as sarcasm!)

She donates a lot to local charities and the NSPCC. Does a lot for Alder Hey Children's Hospital too

Didn’t watch Celebrity or Wagatha, but I’ve always liked Colleen since she first appeared in her school uniform.

As far as admiring her, I say hats off to raising four boys!

But do you love your kids like Peter andre loves his kids

Haha sorry but he was the gold standard of loving your own kids a few years back

Someone else might have said this by now but is she that religious?! I know she's said she's Catholic repeatedly, but is she so Catholic that she wouldn't divorce him?

Well she hasn't divorced him.... @LambriniBobInIsleworthISeesYa

But I agree I don't get particularly strong Catholic vibes from her I just think she's a girl raised to put up with alot & if it wasn't Wayne (due to money/family) it'd be somebody else (due to looks/personality)

These girls are just raised to get with men locally & have kids young

There are probably also custody reasons why she hasn't wanted a split from him since the oldest was born though

At the end of the day given how long they have been together, if she wanted to leave him, she could do and would be a very wealthy, well known woman in her own right. She has chosen not to do so and that seems to have worked for her. She seems a decent sort and I wish her all the best.

That’s unfair. She met him well before he was rich.

And she says they work well as a team and yes, love one another.

She has created a life for herself where she is happy and good for her I say.

She has choices but she is content where she is and it’s not up to you or I to make judgements about that decision. She could have left three times over if she wanted but she’s chosen not to and I respect that decision. There’s obviously more than just financial factors at stake.

Edited to add: And if you get together that young, and then get famous and rich, you face all of that extraordinary temptation and scrutiny while newly married. Many of us worked all of that out when we were young and single at university and beyond. And then got married much later. It’s just a different way of doing things, I think she has been canny negotiating all of that tbh.