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How Kate & Coleen FINALLY BONDED
Football has scored them a friendship
While Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand forged a firm friendship in their Manchester United glory days, with the footballing heroes still close pals, their wives Coleen and Kate have never really been close – until now. Insiders tell heat thatthe WAGs have bonded over their eldest sons, who are both promising young footballers, and have been turning to each other for support and advice.
Coleen’s 14-year-old son Kai and Kate’s stepson Lorenz are both set to follow in their fathers’ footballing footsteps. Kai enrolled in Manchester United’s youth academy three years ago, while Lorenz, 16 – Rio’s son with his late wife Rebecca Ellison – has recently signed to New Era Global Sports management, as he continues to play for the under-18s team at Brighton and Hove Albion.
Now, we’re told Coleen and Kate have found common ground. Our source says, “Coming into Rio’s life as his second wife was difficult for Kate, especially when it came to the friends he and Rebecca made as a couple. They were close with Wayne and Coleen, and Rebecca helped Coleen when she first became a mum.
“While Rio and Wayne have remained good friends, Coleen and Kate weren’t initially close. But over the years, they have gotten to know one another through their husbands, and have now bonded over both their oldest boys wanting to become professional footballers. They’re quite similar in lots of ways and Coleen has even trusted Kate to follow her private Instagram account.”
Former TOWIE star Kate, 32, married Rio, 45, in September 2019, after meeting two years earlier while on holiday in Dubai. Kate – who went on to have Cree, three, and nine-month-old Shae with Rio – has opened up about her experience of parenting in a blended family after becoming a stepmum to her husband’s three children, Lorenz, Tate, 14, and Tia, 13. In her book How To Build A Family, she reflected on her experience of entering a “bereaved home” following the death of Rebecca, who died of breast cancer in May 2015.
Kate wrote, “If I could bring Rebecca back, I would in an instant because of the pain I’ve seen in them. A child losing their parent is horrendous. You want to bring their mum back to make them happy, but you can’t. As a stepparent coming into a bereaved
