Wayne Rooney's wedding guests donate just £2,000 to Hospice

[AndrewW-G]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebri...

When Shrek the geriatric prostitute shaggerRooney got married last year, they made a big deal in the press about not wanting gifts & would rather their guests donated money to the specialist children’s hospice Claire House, turns out that all they CH got in the end was £2000 or a twenty five hundredth of the cost of the wedding.

Why am I bothered (no I'm not a hello reader)..........Claire house is less than a mile from my office and over the last year have helped raise more than Rooney and his bladder kicking millionaire friends

[s3fella]

I think because such donations are generally more anonymous than being able to spout to "Alllo" magazine how you stumped up a diamond collar for a gay dog, they just did not bother.

That is pretty poor effort by them, you'd have thought one person would have stumped up that 2k!

[The Ben]

you are correct in what you say other than Rooney looking like a Shreck looking bloke. My nickname is Rooney for obvious face lookkie like nickname banterous reasons... lol Shreck has to be a no no... lol

[Slagathore]

Bunch of tight gits!

Even Hyypia managed a £23k donation to a local children's hospital!

http://www.citytalk.fm/Article.asp?id=1200658&...

[Randy Winkman]

I think that picking on people like this is pretty low. Just because people give little or nothing to one particular charity on one occassion does not mean they are uncharitable. People have a choice where and when they give to charity.

[elster]

So basically Colleen Rooney has made a public statement to say that his friends are bunch of tight gits.

[Fittster]

If this charity is going to name and shame doners I certainly won't be giving them anything (they might not consider it enough).

[Jasandjules]

elster said:

So basically Colleen Rooney has made a public statement to say that his friends are bunch of tight gits.

Seems that way. When 2k is not even a days wage for many of them.........

[AlexKP]

Randy Winkman said:

I think that picking on people like this is pretty low. Just because people give little or nothing to one particular charity on one occassion does not mean they are uncharitable. People have a choice where and when they give to charity.

bks.

Hundreds of immensely wealthy guests, asked not to buy presents but to make a donation.

And only four did.

Disgraceful.

Mind you, uber chavs like Rooney and his missus could probably have managed with a £2.5million wedding and donated the remaining 2.5mill...

[Randy Winkman]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

My post was the same argument that has been trotted out countless times on PH over the years I have been looking at it. Strangely nobody but me made it in this case.

[sjc]

There's always more to it than meets the eye in press stories of this ilk. My bet is that the Rooneys have donated plenty in the past,so criticism of them is probably harsh. Doesn't excuse the guests though.

[elster]

Fittster said:

If this charity is going to name and shame doners I certainly won't be giving them anything (they might not consider it enough).

I think you will find it was Mrs Rooney who said this, as in Colleen.

[anonymous-user]

Rooney spent a fortune helping out that old lady when he was at Everton.

Tbh I expect coleen and all the other footballers wives do loads of charity stuff we don't hear about. They still actually donated £2000 that presumably the hospice wouldn't have seen other wise.

Edited by el stovey on Friday 13th March 20:13

[n3il123]

If thats the case and just 4 of the guests donated £500 then thats pretty ste... I mean how many of us would go to a wedding with out taking a present? in their circumstances they have asked for donations.. pretty rubbish not to bung a couple of ton when you earn 10 big ones a week...

[Simpo Two]

There appears to be a new law that states that the more you earn the more you must give away, or else.

[n3il123]

Simpo Two said:

There appears to be a new law that states that the more you earn the more you must give away, or else.

I think if you read the article it says that only 4 of the guests donated.

They said said:

The Claire House hospice in The Wirrall, where Mrs Rooney's ten-year-old adopted sister Rosie receives respite care, received gifts of £500 from four of the £5 million wedding's guests, according to its chairman Dennis Mahony.

[Alfa_75_Steve]

' received gifts of £500 from four of the £5 million wedding's guests, according to its chairman Dennis Mahony.'

Isn't that rather tactless?

I suspect he's done the charity more harm than good with that attitude.

[sstein]

It's bad taste for anyone, either the charity itself or Waynes wife to say how much was donated!

Donations are voluntary, you don't know how much they give to charity over a year, or how many other private, anonymous donations they have made.

Even so, just because certain guests are very well paid does not mean they have to give to a certain charity, it doesn't mean they have to give to any charity!

This is almost as bad as that program where the nurse went around the Premiership trying to get all the footballers to give away a weeks salary.

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Stuart

[okgo]

Everyone has a choice. Never forget that. I don't give to charity, that's my choice.

[alfa phil]

Oh come on we all know that Rooneys family come from a poor area of Liverpol