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Bargain hunt: Alex Curran gives the designer shops a miss for budget chic in Primark
Last updated at 13:29pm on 28.02.08With a football player husband who takes home £90,000 a week, it's the last place one might expect to see Wag Alex Curran.
But it appears even the wife of Steven Gerrard has caught the cheap chic bug, as she was seen carrying a bag from budget store Primark while shopping in Liverpool yesterday.
Perhaps it was all in the name of research for Alex, 25, who writes a column on budget fashion for a tabloid newspaper.
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Cheap cheek: Wag Alex Curran gave her favourite designer stores a miss, and popped into budget chic store Primark for some bargains in Liverpool yesterday
In fairness, Primark is known for fashionable beachwear, and its fashion-forward clothing lines appear on many must-have lists.
Still, Alex wasn't completely letting lofty standards slip, as she carried her Zagliani python skin bag - no bargain at over £1,000.
She also showed off a pair of Yves Saint Laurent 'Tribute' shoes valued at £400.
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Price is right: Maybe the prices were laughably low for the 25-year-old who is more used to splashing the cash on designer clothes like Liverpool boutique Cricket
The mother-of-two girls, Lily-Ella, three; and Lexie, 20 months, who married Gerrard in a lavish cermemony last June also carried bags from fashionista's favourite store TopShop.
Despite her big spending WAG reputation Alex said recently she is a big fan of the simple things.
She said: "My husband, Steven, warms up my car for me when I am in a rush and he fills it up with petrol on his way home so I don't have to.
"Things like this give me little boosts every day and mean the world to me."
Alex's luxurious lifestyle is well documented. Two weeks ago, it was no expense spared as she stayed in a £2,000-a-night luxury villa in Dubai on a girls only holiday in the Middle East East with Jude Cisse, wife of ex-Liverpool star Djibril and Thierry Henry's former wife Claire.
And for Christmas she received a £100,000 Mercedes car from her footballer husband.
Last year a break-in at the Gerrard's Liverpool mansion last December occurred after Alex - who was confronted by the raiders - revealed in a celebrity magazine she had bought Gerrard a £10,000 Cartier watch for Christmas.
