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Strictly Come Dancing bosses are hoping Coleen Rooney will quickstep up for this year’s series.
The mum of four – married to Everton footballer Wayne – is top of the wish-list for the BBC show, sources say. She’s been waiting in the wings since last year when she had to turn down the offer after finding out she was pregnant with son Cass, it has been claimed. Insiders say she was replaced by Holby City’s Chizzy Akudolu at the 11th hour. A source said: “Coleen deferred her place last year after falling pregnant but has the option of taking it up this year – and talks have begun to make that happen. “This would be one of Strictly’s biggest signings ever. And it would be a ratings sensation. “Producers know that they will need to pull out all the stops to land Coleen. But they have been told she is interested.”
Coleen, 32, has become a star in her own right. She has had her own magazine column, released a fitness DVD and had a clothing range with Littlewoods.
But last year was a tough one for her after husband Wayne was arrested for drink-driving on a night out with party girl Laura Simpson, who he’d just met in a bar.
Coleen, who was pregnant at the time and on holiday in Majorca, was devastated. The couple now have four sons – Kai, eight, Klay, four, Kit, three, and Cass, two months.
She later admitted their nine-year marriage had come close to ending but said she had stayed with Wayne, 32, because she loved him.
A source said: “It would be Coleen’s chance to step out from Wayne’s shadow and prove she’s not just a footballer’s wife.” Strictly returns in September.