Helen Wood became famous for being the prostitute who bedded Wayne Rooney in a threesome more than 10 years ago, and she’s worked hard to ditch her scandalous past.
The sex worker hit the headlines in 2010, when it emerged she and fellow escort Jenny Thompson had indulged in a racy night of passion with married footballer Wayne, who’s wife Coleen Rooney was pregnant with their first child at the time.
She was a single mother and working as a prostitute after getting in debt at the age of 19.
Helen said she has slept with four multi-millionaire footballers, three actors and a high-profile judge, but it was her tryst with Wayne that made her an unexpected household name.
She was introduced to the Manchester United player in July 2009 - when Coleen was five months pregnant with their eldest son Kai - and Helen and Jenny were paid by another player at the club to take part in a night of group sex at the luxury Lowry hotel in Manchester.
Helen later said Wayne was “full of remorse” after they had sex, and he showed her pictures of Coleen’s ultrasound scans, warning her that news of their encounter couldn’t get out as he had “so much to lose”.
“After we had sex he brought up the fact that he was going to become a dad soon. I asked him if he was all right, and he replied, ‘I don't know why I've just done that,’” she told MailOnline in 2019.
Jenny went public with their night of passion with Wayne, and while the footballer’s lawyers tried to suppress the story, news emerged of Wayne’s infidelity shortly before he was due to go to South Africa to play for England in the 2010 World Cup.
Helen later sold her story for £40,000, and in a tell-all book about her life.
In 2019's A Man's World, Helen said she’s ditched sex work and was caring for her mother who suffers from dementia.
She also took part in the non-celebrity version of Big Brother in 2014, and won viewers over as she ended up scooping the £100,000 prize.
She even turned her hand to writing, and penned a regular column for the Daily Star newspaper until 2017.
She’s now ditched the limelight, and prefers instead to spend time with her son, and her beloved dog Bruno.
Helen deleted her Instagram account, declaring the app to be full of “t*ssers”.
“Deleted Instagram because of the amount of t*ssers on there, twitters slowly turning into Instagram… under 25s need to f**k off!” she tweeted back in 2020.
Her bio reads only, “cosmetic tattooist”, and her recent posts reveal she’s currently living in Dublin.
She posted a poignant quote on Twitter in November last year, which read: “Healing yourself can be offensive to people that benefited from your brokenness.”
