The Loose Women panel slammed Wayne Rooney over his drunk snap scandal on Thursday’s episode.
The footballer, 35, has been locked in an embarrassing drama after photos of him sleeping in a hotel room surrounded by three party girls went viral over the weekend, leading to a police sting and blackmail allegations.
In the wake of the drama, and during a debate entitled ‘can a relationship last if a partner has lied?’, panellist Linda Robson laid into the sports star.
Fuming: The Loose Women panel slammed Wayne Rooney over his drunk snap scandal on Thursday’s episode (above Linda Robson)
She said: ‘He needs to grow up! He’s 35, got four kids and a lovely wife, he shouldn’t be getting into a position like that’
Gloria Hunniford then said she was ‘bored’ of reading Wayne’s excuses, saying: ‘It happens over and over again. I feel very sorry for Coleen.
Linda later added: ‘He’s in the public eye he should know there will be people taking pictures of him…how many times is he going to get caught like that? it’s ridiculous! If it was me, I’d be on my phone to the solicitor.’
On Wednesday it emerged Wayne had bought the photos of him sleeping in a hotel room surrounded by the party girls for just £1, and described the women as ‘decent’ days after claiming their pictures were part of a plot to blackmail him.
Tough time: The footballer, 35, has been locked in an embarrassing drama after photos of him sleeping in a hotel room surrounded by three party girls went viral over the weekend, leading to a police sting and blackmail allegations (Wayne pictured on Wednesday)
No holds barred: In the wake of the drama, and during a debate entitled ‘can a relationship last if a partner has lied?’, panellist Linda Robson laid into the sports star, saying ‘grow up’
Wayne, who has been married to Coleen since 2008, got caught in the drama over the weekend when he joined the girls in their hotel room near Piccadilly station.
Greater Manchester Police said they had received no reports about the incident, but Cheshire Constabulary were investigating the claims. It confirmed: ‘We have received a complaint of blackmail which we are reviewing.’
One of the images which leaked on social media and went viral on Sunday shows Wayne leaning in towards a blonde reveller at a nightclub in Manchester. There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing on the football star’s part.
Coleen is said to be fully behind her husband and thinks he has been the victim of a stitch-up.
On Wednesday, Wayne paid the ‘nominal’ fee to Brooke Morgan, Elise Melvin, both 21, and their pal Eleanor Hoggarth, who have apologised to him and ‘volunteered to hand over all pictures’ having admitted they got ‘carried away’.
Hmm: Gloria Hunniford then said she was ‘bored’ of reading Wayne’s excuses, saying: ‘It happens over and over again. I feel very sorry for Coleen’
Wayne now owns the copyright on the images that showed him asleep in a chair in their £60-a-night room in Manchester on Saturday.
In the aftermath ex-England skipper Wayne alleged to police he was blackmailed over the images of him with three women while fully-clothed and asleep in a chair. The trio approached Rooney’s lawyer, his spokesman said.
Wayne’s ownership of the majority of the pictures from his night out will now mean he can take legal action if they are used by the press or on social media.
Childhood sweethearts: Wayne has been with childhood sweetheart Coleen for nearly two decades. The pair started dating when they were 16 after leaving school, married in 2008 and have four sons together
A spokesman for Wayne said: ‘The three girls who took the photographs contacted Wayne’s lawyers and volunteered to hand over all pictures that were taken that night and the copyrights in them.
‘They have also, at their own suggestion, made a written apology to him for the events that took place and the embarrassment caused…
‘These were three decent young women who went for a night out. They did not expect Wayne to end up in their company and are remorseful about how things turned out with the pictures.
‘They got carried away and did something they later regretted. They did not expect it to end up in the mainstream media after it was posted on social media and they decided to take steps to put things right.
‘It would be wrong to say no money changed hands because when a contract is drawn up there must be a sum and in this case it was a nominal £1.
‘They have fulsomely apologised because they wanted to do what they saw as the right thing and draw a line under the matter.’
End of matters: Wayne now owns the copyright on the images that showed him asleep in a chair as the friends mucked around in their underwear in their £60-a-night room in Manchester on Saturday (Wayne pictured in November 2020)