After seeing her husband Wayne’s boozy night out on the front page of The Sun, Coleen hunted Kelly down on social media… and the I’m A Celebrity star was very blunt and annoyed

I HAVE been a showbiz journalist for 20 years so it’s not unusual for a celebrity pal to slide into my DMs.

But my heart skipped a beat on Monday morning when I woke up to a message from… Coleen Rooney’s Instagram account. And, boy, was she raging.

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Now, I’ve met Coleen several times over the years and I’ve always liked her. She’s warm, full of Northern grit and incredibly business savvy.

Her stint on 2024’s I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, where she finished as a runner-up, cemented her national treasure status.

But she also takes no s**t.

After seeing her husband Wayne Rooney’s boozy night out on the front page of today’s The Sun she hunted me down on social media – we don’t follow each other.

Now I’d had a heavy weekend in Manchester attending The Brit Awards with The Sun’s Bizarre Team so hadn’t seen Coleen’s 12.11am Sunday message until breakfast time. I nearly choked on my cornflakes.

She bluntly put in five words – I won’t repeat them here – how disappointed she was that I had written about Wayne’s latest escapade at a posh hotel.

Now, I understand why she is annoyed. Yet again it brings up her long-term beau’s bad behaviour, which she is clearly sick of everyone talking about. Especially at a time when the focus should be on her.

Yesterday, Coleen was on the cover of prestigious The Sunday Times Magazine, marking the start of a busy week of promotion for her new Primark collection.

She wanted this week to be all about bargain, high-street clothes for “mums on the run”.

Instead, it’ll be Wayne’s skeletons, non-stop questions about their marriage and why it is she’s standing by him… again.

But I feel her anger at me is misplaced.

I didn’t go out to try and find Wayne having a wild night out. I didn’t even know he was attending the pre Brits bash at this particular hotel.

I had intended to go to bed early. Instead, Howell Davies, from Bizarre, and I decided to have one final nightcap after watching Robbie Williams perform at the Aviva arena.

With the Brit Awards the following day, neither of us were planning on having a big night.

So imagine our surprise when the Manchester United legend walked in – accompanied by Britain’s Got Talent singer Calum Scott and another pal – and sat down beside us.

Now the bar was jam-packed – it’s unfortunate for Wayne that he choose a table next to two journalists.

The trio were then joined by two women, all of whom were in good spirits as the waiter brought them rounds of drinks – and the boozing continued until 3.25am.

It would be remiss of me as a showbiz journalist to ignore a story with a huge star happening right in front of me – especially when it was all so blatant.

WAYNE IN A STATE

At one point Wayne came out of the toilets, fumbling with his trousers and struggling to do his belt up.

Ultimately, it is worrying to see someone who has struggled with alcohol in the past get into such a state.

People in the bar were openly staring and commenting, “What would Coleen think?”

But then Wayne and Coleen’s 24-year relationship has not been without drama.

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In the early years, Wayne, who is now a BBC pundit, admitted to cheating in brothels and massage parlours, and there were allegations of infidelity when Coleen was pregnant with son Kai, now 16.

When Coleen was pregnant with Cass, now 8, Wayne was pulled over for drink-driving, not in his own car but the car of a woman he’d met in a club in Manchester. Coleen and the children briefly moved out of the family home.

‘MADE MISTAKES’

On Facebook, Coleen later said of the incident,”I want to try and continue our marriage and live as a family, because that’s what I want to do.”

Last September, Wayne appeared on his former team-mate Rio Ferdinand‘s podcast, where he spoke about his issues with alcohol and praised his wife’s steadfastness. “I honestly believe if she weren’t there I’d be dead.