Wayne Rooney has responded to speculation suggesting he brought a mystery woman to his luxury apartment, insisting it is “simply not true” she went in alone.
In a post on Instagram, the star said: “I am aware of a video circulating online. The video shows a man and woman looking around my apartment.
“The couple kindly took me home and were there at the same time as my son, who was visiting. The images are from last summer.
“It’s upsetting that at least one newspaper has decided to edit the footage to make it look like a woman entered the apartment alone.
“That’s simply not true.”
In the clip, viewed more than two million times after being shared on behind him.
The woman’s face cannot be seen in the video, which then shows Rooney inside the apartment, standing in front of a large television next to a bare stone wall.
The former Man United star, currently manager of Plymouth Argyle, the Championship’s lower league team, has been living in a luxury rented apartment in the Devon town since taking over as head coach of the club this summer.
Wayne Rooney has responded to speculation suggesting he brought a mystery woman to his luxury apartment, insisting it is “simply not true” she went in alone.
Rooney, 39, is wearing a gray tracksuit and a baseball cap and can be seen opening a door while a woman with strawberry blonde hair waits behind him.
The woman’s face is not seen in the video, which has been widely seen on X
A Plymouth Argyle spokesperson confirmed that the videos from the apartment were not recent, as Rooney spent Saturday night with his team in a hotel near the Oxford ground preparing for the match.
Coleen, who spent Sunday in the directors’ room at Goodison Park watching his childhood team Everton FC lose 2-0 to Nottingham Forest, was “indifferent” to the video when he watched it online.
A source told The Sun: ‘Wayne was with his son on the night of the videos. They took him home and he invited them in as a thank you.
While their loft-style apartment is luxurious and comfortable, it is a far cry from Rooney’s six-bedroom £20 million Cheshire mansion, which features a billiards room, home cinema, indoor swimming pool, underground spa, a warehouse and a stable area. with space for 14 horses and a soccer field.
Outside of training camp, Rooney has been regularly seen on nights out on the town, even singing Ed Sheeran songs during a karaoke night at the Cider Press bar in August.
But his “single lifestyle” hundreds of miles from home has also caused concern for those close to him, including his wife Coleen.
Coleen, 38, recently spent a month in the I’m A Celeb jungle, where she finished second to McFly’s Danny Jones.
While she was in the Australian jungle, her four children lived with her parents due to Wayne’s work commitments.
A customer at a bar near Wayne’s rented house in the city previously told MailOnline that he “comes in quite often for a few drinks”, adding: “He’s definitely put on some weight since he’s been here, maybe he’s staying ‘caught in the pasties.’
Rooney is seen sitting with a group of women during a night out at a pub.
Isolated from his Merseyside roots and after a slow start in a high-pressure job, since arriving in the summer, Rooney has been regularly seen enjoying nights out in the city’s bars and clubs, including quiz nights and nights. karaoke singing at the top of his lungs his favorite Ed Sheeran. hits including Shape of You.
A video posted on social media shows Rooney urging the crowd to “make a fucking noise, baby.”
Jarrod Styles, assistant manager of the Cider Press bar, said: “He was definitely a better footballer than a singer.”
‘He was an ideal customer, he was just chatting to people and then he got up and sang Shape of You. He was working the crowd telling everyone to join in.
Nearby Rakuda Bar also shared photos from two different visits by Rooney on Facebook, describing him as “Rakuda’s new regular.”
After losing 2-0 to Oxford United on Sunday, Argyle are now winless in their last nine games under Rooney and recently hired veteran former Man Utd coach Mike Phelan as his assistant.
Coleen pictured today after visiting Costa Coffee in Alderley Edge, Cheshire
Rooney was spotted earlier this year singing karaoke in a pub.
Following the latest defeat and amid heavy criticism from fans, Rooney was asked in an interview if he would consider taking a job as head coach.
He said: “I think you have to consider all possible outcomes.” I think that is normal with the results we are experiencing.
“You have to feel if you can change things, if you have the players to change things, if I can change things, if the coaches can change things.” “That’s all we really have to consider.”
A source recently said: “Coleen has told him no more takeaways, so she’s organizing meal plans and making sure he’s busy when she’s not at work.”
After signing a three-year contract with the club, Rooney moved 260 miles from his family home in Cheshire to a rented seaside apartment in the Devon town.
When the move was first announced, Wayne, Coleen and their children Kai, 14, Klay, 10, Kit, eight, and Cass, five were rumored to be house hunting in the south west and particularly in Salcombe, the town Britain’s most expensive seaside resort, nicknamed Chelsea. -on-Sea, which is just under an hour’s drive from his new job.
But he and Coleen, also 38, eventually decided that moving the family to Devon would be too disruptive to the children’s education and to their eldest son Kai’s promising football career at Man Utd’s academy.
In a recent interview, Coleen said: ‘We thought about it a lot (moving to Devon) but with the kids it didn’t work out.
On the same day, Wayne appeared to be under pressure when his team, Plymouth Argyle, faced Oxford United at the Kassam Stadium.
‘Kai is now in Year 10 and just starting GCSE preparation and everything is going well with football, and the other children are all settled in at school, so it didn’t seem fair that the children would pick them up, take them away and they will start in a completely new place.’
Since they met as 16-year-old schoolchildren living on Liverpool’s Croxteth estate, Coleen has had to endure several high-profile alleged cheating scandals, with the footballer making national headlines when it was discovered he had visited three prostitutes when I was a teenager.
In 2004, after Wayne, then 18, moved to Manchester United, it was discovered that the teenager allegedly paid £140 to have sex with prostitute Charlotte Glover, 21.
It was also claimed that in a Liverpool brothel he slept with Gina McCarrick, then 37, and her grandmother Patricia Tierney, then 48.
Devastated Coleen stood by her man but did not comment publicly on the claims.
The couple married in 2008 in a lavish ceremony in Italy when she was 22 years old.
But their newlywed happiness was short-lived as it was claimed in 2010 that the footballer had slept with two more prostitutes while Coleen was pregnant with their first child.
She was forced to re-evaluate the couple’s marriage in September 2017, when police stopped the former England captain in a car after leaving a nightclub with Laura Simpson.
And in 2021, Wayne made headlines again after pictures emerged of the star partying and sleeping in a hotel room with young women.
Addressing her husband’s behavior in an interview with British Vogue last year. Coleen said: ‘It’s been a battle at times. I look at (any) situation we find ourselves in and think, “Could we get through that?” Is it worth moving forward from that?” I don’t just give up.
“We have never walked away from it.
‘It belongs to us. I remember having a conversation about this with someone and I said, ‘Well, do you know what your wife does every day and every night? At least I know what my husband is doing!” It may not be good, but I know. People lie to themselves.
Speaking in a 2023 Amazon Prime documentary about her husband’s life and football career, Coleen also spoke candidly about her husband’s cheating.
The mother of four credited her parents Colette and Tony for their support, as she admits that part of the reason she decided to stay in her marriage during Wayne’s various cheating and drinking scandals was because of her children .
The Rooneys at a Christmas market in Manchester after teaming up after Coleen’s stint on I’m A Celeb
She said: “When you make those decisions, you should focus on what you want and not on other people because there are a lot of people telling you different things.” ‘Oh, why are you going back to him?’
‘Obviously I listen to the people I care about, my mom and dad always give me a positive outlook on things. There’s nothing we can’t deal with and that’s my way in a situation: let’s sit down and see what we can do and can we make it work? And we have done it. Anyway, we’re not the lovey-dovey type, we like to laugh and we work well together.’
He adds that there is some truth to the idea that they stayed together through their four children, explaining: “That was part of it, but we also still love each other.”
“Hopefully he’s learned and doesn’t get into any of those horrible situations again.” But it happened and I have to live with it, if I couldn’t handle it I would have ended the relationship.’