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 tried her hand at 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.
Personal life
Marriage and children
She met her future husband, Wayne Rooney, at the age of 12 in the Liverpool suburb of Croxteth. They began a relationship at the age of 16, after they left secondary school. Wayne's mother, Jeanette, worked as a part-time cleaner at St John Bosco Arts College, which Coleen attended. They married in Portofino, Italy on 12 June 2008. The couple were paid a reported £2.5 million by Britain's OK! magazine for exclusive wedding information and pictures. The couple, dubbed Wayleen, moved into a new £1.3m mansion in Formby. They currently live in Prestbury, Cheshire, in a £4 million Neo-Georgian mega mansion. The couple have four sons: Kai Wayne, Klay Anthony, Kit Joseph, and Cass Mac. She is a patron of the Liverpool Based Alder Hey Children's Charity.
On 9th October 2019, Rooney made a Twitter post explaining that posts from her private Instagram account were being leaked to The Sun newspaper. She admitted that to catch out who was selling the stories, she had restricted access on who could see the posts. She revealed that the only viewer of these posts was Rebekah Vardy's account, therefore insinuating that she was the culprit. This Tweet went viral, being dubbed the 'Wagatha Christie' scandal. Vardy responded on her own Twitter account, denying the claims and insinuating that her Instagram had been hacked. In June 2020 news broke that Vardy is taking Rooney to court for defamation, with legal costs reportedly set to hit £500,000 on each side.
