Wayne Rooney has responded after a video of a woman appearing to enter his flat circulated online.
Racking up millions of views on social media, the clip shows the Plymouth Argyle manager in a grey tracksuit and baseball cap unlocking a door while a woman waits behind him. Unnamed, her face cannot be seen in the video and it cuts to him inside the flat, standing beside a large TV.
Managing the struggling Championship club down south while his family remain in the north west, Rooney has been living in a rented flat in Plymouth.
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It is not clear how the footage was obtained or who it was filmed by.
Of course, speculation quickly began about this video with rumours spreading online.
So, Rooney took to Instagram Stories yesterday (30 December) to slam the video and respond as it does the rounds on social media.
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“I am aware of a video circulating online. The video shows a man and woman looking around my apartment. The couple kindly gave me a lift home and were in there at the same time as my son who was visiting,” he wrote.
“Footage is from last summer. It is annoying that at least one online newspaper has chosen to edit the footage to make it appear has though a woman entered the apartment on her own. That is simply not true.”
It was also confirmed by a Plymouth Argyle spokesperson that these viral videos were not recent as Rooney had spent Saturday evening with the team in a hotel, prearping for their game against Oxford United.
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And while his side lost and saw more calls for him to resign from the job, his wife Coleen was busy watching his boyhood team, who also lost.
The I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! star spent her Sunday in the director’s lounge at Goodison Park as Everton took on Nottingham Forest.
Ahead of entering the jungle in November, she explained the couple’s time together had been limited since he started managing Pylmouth Argyle.
"Wayne comes back once a week, sometimes twice, depending on the fixtures," Coleen told the Mail on Sunday.
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"Usually, he has Sunday off so he might come home. What's good about the championship is that a lot of games are closer to me, closer to home, up in the North. So he'll come home on a Saturday evening and spend Sunday with us, depending on what the boys have got on.
"Time together is limited, more so than ever now because of the travelling and stuff."
Topics: Wayne Rooney, Football, Coleen Rooney