Wayne Rooney has recalled transforming into Freddie Mercury at his early 40th birthday bash.
Wayne Rooney dressed as Freddie Mercury during his early 40th birthday bash
The 39-year-old former professional football player danced around a vacuum while he donned sexy heels, a black leather skirt, a sleeveless skintight pink top, magenta earrings and a black wig, to mimic the late Queen frontman’s iconic look in the band’s 1984 video for I Want to Break Free.
Wayne then took to the karaoke, but the fun for his wife Coleen – who organised the luxurious weekend away with friends to a plush lakeside estate in the Cotswolds, West Oxfordshire – was short-lived as she tripped from her heels and broke her foot.
The sportsman – who turns 40 on October 24 – said on the latest episode of his The Wayne Rooney Show podcast: “It was great, one night was fancy dress. I was Freddie Mercury. I wore high heels, a black leather skirt, a skintight t-shirt tucked in, and a hoover.
“So I was walking round with a hoover, but my feet were intact. Coleen actually slipped in her heels and broke her foot.
“It was great [weekend]. And we had different bands coming out, singing and performing and stuff. And I got up, obviously, it was good fun.
“I obviously done Bohemian Rhapsody. Me and My Monkey by Robbie Williams – that’s my go-to song.”
Wayne’s comments come as a source previously said he was “in his element” as Freddie – who died from bronchial pneumonia caused by AIDS at the age of 45 in November 1991.
The insider – who also said Coleen arranged for helicopters to whisk them and their pals to the stunning property in the Cotswolds – told The Sun: “Everyone knows Wayne really loves singing, but he was in his element as Freddie Mercury.
“He looked the part and blasted out some of Queen’s best-known tunes.”