Wayne and Coleen celebrate baby boy

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The couple's first child, named Kai Wayne Rooney, was born at 2.20pm on Monday at Liverpool Women's Hospital, said their spokesman.

The spokesman added: "Mother and baby are both absolutely fine. Wayne and Coleen are thrilled with the wonderful addition to their family life."

Rooney, 24, was absent from training for his club Manchester United on Monday morning amid growing speculation that his wife was set to give birth to the couple's first child.

He will now almost certainly be excused from playing for his side in their next fixture against CSKA Moscow at Old Trafford on Tuesday.

News that Coleen was pregnant emerged earlier this year although rumours had regularly circulated since the couple's spectacular wedding on the Italian Riviera last summer.

Coleen, 23, is the eldest of four children to bricklayer dad Tony and nursery nurse mum Colette.

Wayne is the eldest of three. Both have large extended families.

Rooney's parents Jeanette and Wayne senior have two other sons, John and Graham.

The couple have been together since they were 14, and the England star reportedly proposed on a petrol station forecourt in Liverpool.