Important news don’t you think, that Wayne Roony and Colleen McLoughlin are to marry next year?

WAYNE ROONEY, the England footballer, and Coleen McLoughlin, his
childhood sweetheart, are to marry in the summer of 2008 after agreeing
a deal worth more than £1.5m with the celebrity magazine Hello!

It
is the most the magazine has paid for exclusive access to a celebrity
wedding, beating the £1m paid to Eliza-beth Hurley this month for
coverage of her celebrations in Britain and India.

Their popular
appeal, or at least their financial pulling power, also exceeds that of
David and Victoria Beckham, who received £900,000 from the rival OK!
magazine for their wedding in Ireland in 1999. Catherine Zeta-Jones and
Michael Douglas received a similar amount for their wedding in 2000.

The
deal was finalised last week and also covers McLoughlin’s 21st birthday
party at the end of this month. The couple, who got engaged on a petrol
station forecourt in 2003, decided to go ahead after being impressed by
the security arrangements around the Hurley wedding.

Got to get that all important sponsorship in place before plighting one’s troth, eh?