PALIN MITENK BLOG

By DAILY MAIL REPORTERS

Testing times: Coleen has been in agony over the past year and the blackmail plot is the latest in a long list of problems she has had to face


Coleen Rooney has been left shaken by a blackmail attempt over personal photos.

The 24-year-old was said to be 'sickened' at the plot to extort money after thieves got hold of a camera containing a memory card with more than 100 images of 15-month-old Kai.

The perpetrators were threatening to sell them unless the couple stumped up a five-figure sum.

A source told Closer: 'She has been left shaken to the core over the latest incident... She was really upset.


All white: Coleen arriving at the Black Eyed Peas concert in May last year, where her camera was taken by a blackmail gang


'She was sickened that strangers had taken the camera and were trying to use such personal and private pictures to make some money.'

It's said that the star has stepped up security as a result and last week, it emerged three people were arrested over the attempted scam.

Police were tipped off and the trio - two men and a woman - were arrested in September in a sting operation.

Coleen was with Wayne, 25, at The Black Eyed Peas gig at Manchester's MEN Arena in May last year when she accidentally left the camera in a £2,500-a-night private box.

It is believed an extortion gang grabbed Coleen’s camera after she put it down on a table in the hospitality suite during the concert.

When she got back to their luxury £4.5m home in Prestbury, Cheshire, Coleen realised she had left the camera behind and frantically called bosses at the venue to ask of they could retrieve it.

A mystery middle man later contacted the couple to warn the private photos would be published on the Internet unless they handed over the money - which was in excess of £10,000.

But police were called in and officers staged an elaborate undercover sting operation in which a series of telephone exchanges were secretly taped.

They later arrested two men, aged 28 and 41, and a woman aged 25 in a dramatic swoop.

It is the latest in a series of personal setbacks for the WAG.

She has weathered allegations her husband slept with two prostitutes while she was pregnant and was her ITV2 show Coleen’s Real Women has just been cancelled after ratings plummeted from nearly 900,000 viewers down to just over 200,000.

Coleen also appeared on the final of ITV’s X Factor back in December reporting from her hometown of Liverpool interviewing finalist Rebecca Ferguson’s fans, but her presenting skills failed to impress viewers who were left confused and unable to understand.


Happy families: Wayne and Coleen with baby Kai on holiday in Barbados over Christmas


source: dailymail