Wayne proposed to ‘childhood sweetheart’ McLoughlin on the forecourt of a BP garage when she was 17 with a £46,500 diamond engagement ring. Later that year, she left school and landed a small part in Hollyoaks, the Merseyside television soap. “I was getting offered acting parts and I couldn’t take them because of my school work,” she said. The couple, dubbed Wayleen, moved into a new £1.3m mansion in nearby Formby. They now live in a £3.5 million mansion in Cheshire complete with a pink-tiled swimming pool, a Dallas-themed living room, cinema, gym and games room and American diner-themed kitchen. It also has seven plasma screen TVs and a £30,000 state-of-the-art security system. It was reported that Wayne and McLoughlin are going to get married in 2008 after Euro 2008.