She’s famous for her love of designer outfits but when Coleen McLoughlin goes on a serious shopping trip, there’s one person she leaves at home - her fiancee, Manchester United star Wayne Rooney.
“I don’t think Wayne takes much interest in what I wear,” she laughs.”I don’t take him shopping with me. I think girls are better at that. It’s my mum I listen I trust her advice.”
In fact, the last time Wayne did offer his fashion advice he told Coleen he thought her bum looked big in her Juicy Couture tracksuits. I still wear them because they’re comfortable but only the darker colours!” she grins.
We’re perched on plastic chairs, in a back room in the Lowry Hotel in Manchester. For a woman who is photographed every time she walks out her front door, she’s surprisingly shy.
Throughout our interview the 21-year-old plays nervously with the walnut-sized diamond on her engagement finger - at one point tugging the £25,000 sparkler so vigorously, she accidentally flings it under a nearby table.
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