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ShareFor some it's a tot of whisky, for others it's a milky drink, but Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney can't get off to sleep without the whir of a vacuum cleaner or his girlfriend's hairdryer.
"When I'm on my own, I still not only like to have the TV and light on to help me sleep -- but also a vacuum cleaner," he admits in his autobiography My Story So Far, serialised in the Mail.
"Failing that a fan or a hairdryer will do. I've ruined so many hairdryers by letting them burn out. Coleen (McLoughlin, his girlfriend) hates it. She won't let me turn on a vacuum cleaner or a fan, not when we're together," he adds, recalling that the unusual habit began when he was a child.
Rooney said he didn't mind being called "Potato Face" or "Shrek", after the cartoon character. He also speaks candidly of his infamous visits to a massage parlour in Liverpool as a 16-year-old, describing it as "shameful" and the "biggest single regret of my life".
"I can never sufficiently make it up to Coleen -- but I am trying," he said. On fashion, Rooney says he is not like teammates such as David Beckham who follow the latest trends, instead describing himself as "a scruff" who is ribbed for turning up to training in slippers. "I have two pairs -- one from Marks and Spencer and the other just a cheap pair with an England flag on the front bought from the market," he revealed.
