Hello, I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place, the show that explores the myriad unique scenarios that challenge and strengthen us.

Today I'm chatting to Colleen Rooney.

There was one time where I thought, no, you're going a bit too far now, was we were doing the production.

We were doing Bugsie Malone and the ad press trying to come in to the school

hall to watch it. It was like a parent and friends and family, and one of the teachers got

me before the performance. I was like, we've just had to put some more people on the door

and I was asking people who they're here to say, except because someone's been flagged up and

it's someone from the press that's

coming in. I'm glad they never, because I was fat time. How are you all doing, you lovely lot?

I'm at that nice, cozy point in the year where I'm really embracing the wintry vibes. I always

think I'm going to dread winter. And then this sort of bit of the year, I'm like,

oh, I like it. I'm all cozy. The fluffy socks are out. I'm enjoying little hibernation evenings where I sort of light some candles, watch Great British Bake Off and put a little

blanket on. I love it. Oh, heaven. I hope that you're finding it

cozy and nourishing too. And also, like all good humans, I'm slightly turning into my mum

by Christmas shopping already. I used to find that so irritating that my mum would

Christmas shop so early. I mean, my mum does take the piss, like she'll Christmas shop in March, but I've started buying things already.

And then there's the problem of where am I storing all this stuff, just shoving it under beds,

and hope the cats don't rip it all to shreds. But I've started, I've started, it's happening.

I might even have a mulled wine at some point this week, guys, sod it, I've started it's happening. I might even have a mould wine at some

point this week, guys, sod it. So look, let's get on to this week's episode. We talked to

lovely Colleen. Colleen was catapulted into the public high and in many ways became a sort of

public property when the press discovered that she was Manchester United footballer Wayne Rooney's

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