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Wayne ­Rooney paid for ­secret hotel sex sessions with a £1,000-a-night prostitute while his wife Coleen was pregnant with their son,

the Sunday Mirror can ­sensationally reveal.

The £100,000-a-week Manchester United and England icon slept with brunette Jennifer Thompson, 21, seven times over four months.

And, astonishingly, he even flaunted her on a string of dates to VIP haunts in ­Manchester, including bars, clubs and the city’s 235 Casino.

Last night a humiliated Rooney was confessing his disgrace to ­childhood sweetheart Coleen, who took him back in 2004 after the Sunday Mirror twice exposed him for cheating on her with prostitutes.

Rooney now expects betrayed Coleen to throw him out of their £5million mansion in Cheshire and begin moves for an ­explosive divorce. He told a pal ­yesterday: “My life is in ruins…I’ve been so stupid. Coleen won’t forgive me this time. She will leave me.”

As with the downfall of philandering golf legend Tiger Woods, Rooney fully anticipates losing sponsorship deals worth £6million a year which depend on him ­maintaining his family man reputation.

Speaking to the Sunday Mirror, escort girl ­Jennifer said of multi-millionaire ­Rooney: “He sent me SIM cards full of text ­messages and spoke to me on Skype using a false name. Whenever we met for sex, it was always in the same hotel.”

It is understood that Rooney, 24, booked Jennifer from an online agency in Manchester which promises its clients “ultimate discretion” after she was recommended to him by a pal.

Their first meeting was in July last year at the £300-a-night Lowry Hotel in Salford when devoted Coleen was five months pregnant with their son Kai.

Well-spoken Jennifer – whose middle-class parents live in a £300,000 detached home in a leafy suburb of Bolton – ­provided Rooney with “anything goes” sex.

After two two-hour romps with him at the Lowry a week apart from each other, she was dropped by her agency when she took bookings from him direct in order for her to avoid paying ­commission. The sex sessions then ­developed into longer, more intimate “dates”, often lasting five or six hours during which time he would arrange for room service to deliver dinner and champagne at the five-star Lowry.

On each occasion, he paid her £1,000 in cash for her company.

A friend of Jennifer’s said last night: “She couldn’t believe it the first time he booked her. He used a different name so she didn’t know who he really was until she knocked on the hotel room door and he opened it.

“She wasn’t star-struck. She considers what she does to be a profession and she always strives to be very good at it.

“But she got into trouble with her agency when they found out she was by-passing them and taking bookings from him direct on her own mobile phone and over the internet using Skype.

“After he’d had sex with her the first few times, he changed his ­attitude towards her. He said it was no longer just about an hour or two of sex but that he’d grown genuinely fond of her. But he carried on paying her ­whenever they met. It went on for four months.”

Their last meeting was in October. On November 2, Coleen gave birth to Kai. The source said: “He suddenly stopped calling Jennifer in October, although she has seen him out in bars and clubs in Manchester since. When that happens, she makes sure she stays well away from him to avoid any awkwardness.”

The source went on: “She’s a well-to-do young woman and has had a good ­education. You’ve only got to look at her to see why Wayne liked her so much.

“She loves the high-life and leads a hectic life of parties, holidays and nights out. She works hard for six months, earns lots of money and then goes to Spain for a few months to party with friends she has over there.

“When she’s run out of money, she comes home and starts escorting again. She’s young but very confident and sure of herself.

“In the past, she’s told friends that she would love to be a real WAG. She knows that it all coming out will devastate Wayne. She says she feels sorry for Coleen but that at the same time, Wayne must have known the risks of one day being found out. On a few of their dates, he actually took her out on his arm to bars and a casino.

“He must have been on some kind of self-destruct trip. It must have been obvious to him that people would spot him and see that she wasn’t Coleen but he didn’t seem to care.”

Rooney and Coleen, 24, met while they were at secondary school in Liverpool.

In July 2004 the Sunday Mirror revealed how he had paid £140 to romp with prostitute Charlotte Glover, then 21, before leaving her with a signed autograph as a souvenir.

Then, a month later, the Sunday Mirror ­revealed how he had sex with prostitute Gina McCarrick, 37 at a £45-a-time brothel in ­Liverpool, which he visited 10 times and where he was caught on CCTV. He also had sex there with a 48-year-old grandmother known as “Auld Slapper”, who wore a rubber catsuit.

A humbled Rooney later issued a grovelling apology, saying: “Foolish as it now seems I did on occasions visit massage parlours and ­prostitutes. I now regret it deeply and hope people may understand that it was the sort of mistake you make when you are young and stupid. It was at a time when I was very young and ­immature.”

In her autobiography, Coleen later revealed that she forgave Rooney because when he had sex with the three prostitutes – in 2002 – she and he had not yet slept together or formally settled down together. She wrote: “The truth is, and I’ve never said this before, at that time in our relationship I’d never even slept with Wayne. “I was only 16 and we weren’t having that kind of relationship at that stage. We used to meet at the chippy or the cinema.”

After his double vice disgrace, Rooney gradually rebuilt his reputation, allowing him to garner massively lucrative sponsorships.

And he slowly re-established trust with Coleen. Rooney and Coleen married in June 2008 in a lavish ceremony in a converted monastery near Genoa on the Italian ­Riviera.

A beaming Coleen wore a £200,000 white Marchesa wedding gown and pearls while Rooney sported an open-necked shirt for the ceremony at the abbey of La ­Cervara.

In May this year, just before ­England’s World Cup disaster, he insisted being a ­father had changed his life. “Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to,” he said.

“Now I have someone to look after and I just want to be with Kai and Coleen as much as possible. I don’t go clubbing very much any more, maybe only a couple of times a year. I’m now in bed by 10.30pm.”

And he publicly acknowledged the onus on him to behave responsibly, ­saying: “The lifestyle I lead as a ­footballer means I am always in the spotlight.”

Rooney, who played for England on Friday night in the 4-0 victory over Bulgaria, was due to travel to Switzerland tomorrow for England’s next European Championship qualifier in Basel on Tuesday.

But it was unclear last night whether he would remain with the squad amid the crisis now erupting in his marriage.