Aren’t you glad I’ve let you come on?” Coleen Rooney jokes to her husband Wayne as they sit down for a joint interview in their new Disney+ show, The Real Rooneys. The subtext is pretty clear, here and in the rest of the series. While the football prodigy’s fame once drastically eclipsed that of his wife, now it’s Coleen whose star is firmly in the ascendancy.
Indeed, Coleen’s new focus on her career, after spending more than a decade as a stay-at-home mum to the couple’s four sons, is a major throughline for The Real Rooneys. We see her striking a deal for a lucrative fashion collaboration with Primark, rumoured to be worth millions of pounds, though of course the exact numbers aren’t crunched when the cameras are running – that might be a bit too “real”. We watch as she films adverts for PaddyPower with Danny Dyer. “Coleen’s stock is getting stronger by the day,” one of their associates notes proudly.
