ROONEY
Coleen

• 1. Career

Coleen Mary Rooney is an English former television personality. She is married to English football manager and former player Wayne Rooney.

Career

Rooney wrote a column for celebrity magazine Closer entitled "Welcome to My World". She left Closer in 2008 to write a weekly fashion and news column for OK! magazine. Rooney began presenting when in May 2006, she assisted Sir Trevor McDonald on his show Tonight with Trevor McDonald in a programme about the genetic disorder Rett syndrome, from which her younger sister suffered. She went on to make her own series for ITV called Coleen's Real Women in which she was labelled as "The nation's favourite girl next door" and looked for "real women" to front advertising campaigns as an alternative to models.

In December 2005, Rooney sold an exercise DVD entitled Coleen McLoughlin's Brand New Body Workout, which became a bestseller in the United Kingdom. She was paid £3 million to front the George at Asda campaign. In June 2010, Rooney struck a deal with retail and gambling company Littlewoods. Rooney's autobiography, Welcome to My World, was released in March 2007. This was followed by Coleen's Real Style the following year, published by HarperCollins. She has also published a four-book series called Coleen Style Queen from 2008 to 2010.

In October 2023, a drama documentary about the Wagatha Christie Court Case about Rooney vs Vardy released on Disney+, which documented and told Rooney’s side of the Court Case and the details leading up to the social media posting.