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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Lewis Buxton

Voices: Don’t laugh at Wayne Rooney – he could be the next Poet Laureate

In the great Venn diagrams of life, it is rare that we find “football” and “poetry” overlapping, but on last night’s I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, Coleen Rooney sat perfectly in that cross section.

“Is he affectionate, in words?” her co star GK Barry asks of Coleen’s footballer husband, Wayne Rooney. “He’s always wrote me poems,” she responds.

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