Overview
- Wayne and Coleen Rooney shared affectionate Instagram posts on Thursday to mark their 18th wedding anniversary, with Wayne writing, "Happy anniversary @coleen_rooney. Where’s them 18 years gone. Thanks for everything. Love you."
- Reports say the couple are celebrating in Marbella after a child-free trip to Ibiza earlier this week, and Coleen posted a pilates update from a Marbella studio.
- The Rooneys married in Portofino in 2008 and are parents to four sons—Kai, Klay, Kit and Cass—details that coverage uses to frame the anniversary as a family milestone.
- Coverage reiterated past controversies in Wayne’s career, including widely reported allegations from his teenage years and Coleen’s on-camera reflections about their marriage in a recent documentary.
- The anniversary stories ran alongside renewed attention to WAG-era rivalries, including a contemporaneous statement from Rebekah Vardy after negative reviews of her new ITV show.