Inside Wayne and Coleen Rooney’s 19-year relationship

WANYE and Coleen Rooney quickly became one of the most famous couples around and their marriage has continued to his headlines to this day.

In an explosive documentary in 2022, the famous couple spoke candidly about their high-profile relationship.

When did Coleen and Wayne get married?

Coleen and Wayne exchanged vows in Portofino, Italy, in June 2008.

The couple, who were both 22 at the time, spared no expense when it came to their wedding, with their incredible day believed to have cost a staggering £5 million.

Coleen and Wayne first met when they were just 12 years old in the Liverpool suburb of Croxteth.

They started going out when they were 16 after leaving school.

Coleen later writes in her 2008 memoir, Welcome to My World, that their relationship was initially very innocent, and that they would meet up “at the chippy or the cinema”.

She then became a regular attendee of Wayne's football games and supported him through his early career when he represented England at 17 and then joined Manchester United from Everton.

What controversies have Wayne and Coleen faced during their marriage?

The pair have faced controversies during their time together.

In 2004, the Sunday Mirror reported that a teenage Rooney had paid £140 for sex with prostitute Charlotte Glover, then 21, and gave her his autograph as a “souvenir”.

That same year he was said to have slept with Gina McCarrick, then 37, at a £45-a-go brothel in Liverpool.

The football star visited the brothel 10 times and was caught on CCTV.

It was at this same brothel that he was said to have slept with grandmother Patricia Tierney, then 48, who wore a rubber catsuit and was known as the "Auld Slapper";.

In 2010 Helen Wood claimed Wayne had paid for a threesome with Jenny Thompson.