Get a life! Coleen’s fury at f lier who says his family were kicked out of seats to accommodate her
FURIOUS Coleen Rooney was yesterday dragged into a ‘diva’ row after she was accused of receiving preferential treatment on a holiday jet.
Mark Cassin, 51, claimed airline Jet2 moved his family from their reserved seats to a row next to ‘pungent’ toilets to make way for Mrs Rooney, her children and her two brothers on the flight from Faro, in Portugal, to Manchester.
He said: ‘I spoke to one of the air hostesses and asked why we had been moved and she just pointed out that Coleen Rooney was on board and wanted all of her party to sit together.
‘I don’t know why she is more important than us. If it was anyone else they would’ve been told the seats were already booked up. It was obvious that we were moved purely to accommodate her party.’
But Mrs Rooney complained on social media that she had been portrayed as ‘some kind of diva’.
Jet2 said it swapped Mrs Rooney’s group with Mr Cassin’s party because they were in identical groups of six, and they needed to move Mrs Rooney’s group because it has a policy banning under-14s from being in the aisle seats on the back row, for safety reasons, due to the close proximity of the galley area. It is Jet2 policy, rather than aviation law.
Mrs Rooney, 32, was with three of her four children – Kai, eight, Klay, five, Kit, two, and baby Cass – and two of her brothers.
Her husband, former England football captain Wayne, also 32, was not with the family as he is currently in the US playing Major League Soccer with DC United.
Mrs Rooney hit back after the story appeared online yesterday.
Posting on Twitter, she said: ‘This is the first I know about the situation … I was given these seats on check-in and that was that. I didn’t ask for certain seats, just took what I was given.’
She complained that she was being portrayed as ‘some diva … which I am far from … I didn’t know about this situation as I said, and I am just a mum travelling with young kids like everyone else.
‘[To] the man who has gone to the press over this story … get a life.’ Mrs Rooney also accused the group of being ‘sneaky’ by photographing her in her seat with a sleeping child across her lap. The
‘Just a mum travelling like everyone else’