Wayne and Colleen's riches are revealed in court case
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Wayne and Colleen Rooney's riches are revealed in court case
The finances of England striker Wayne Rooney and his wife Colleen have been revealed during a court case.
In the money: stardom has been very lucrative for Wayne and Colleen Rooney
The couple are reportedly "seething" after papers were filed in a Leeds court following a legal row between the Rooneys and sports management agency proactive.
According to the court documents, Wayne Rooney earns:
- £90,000 a week from Manchester United
- £760,000 every six months for image rights
- £1m a year from Nike
- £118,689 twice a year from EA Games
- £3.55m for a five-book publishing deal (which allows Roo to join that illustrious band of footballers to have written more books than they have read.)
Colleen Rooney earns:
- £41,667 a month for a column in OK! magazine
- £5,000 a month for her column in Closer magazine
- £13,000 per episode for Coleen’s Real Women
- £283,334 for an eight-book deal
The court documents, reported in the Daily Mirror, also claim Rooney spent £18,933 on his stag party in Ibiza last summer.
The couple's subsequent wedding in Italy was a hugely extravagant and expensive affair. But according to one celebrity guest, the atmosphere at the ceremony resembled the back room of a local pub.
Kelly Jones, lead singer of rock band Stereophonics, was flown over to Italy to perform at the wedding, which he described as "the most unstarry thing I've ever been to."
Jones told the South Wales Echo: “There weren’t any footballers there, no celebrities, just Wayne and Colleen’s families and friends getting p*****.
"There I was sitting on a stool with two little speakers either side of me - it reminded me more of when we’d play in the back room of the Mount Pleasant in Cwmaman with all these blokes standing in front of me with bottles of beer in their hands playing air guitar.
“I was only supposed to do eight songs and ended up doing 25. And then they made me sing them all again in the bar afterwards."