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Melanie Slade is the girlfriend of Arsenal footballer Theo Walcott and the newest addition to the real “Footballer’s Wives” stable. She first met the England squad member exterior the store the place she labored at West Quay shopping center in Southampton. Melanie was outside with a basket in her hand when Walcott’s pal announced “the basket is for cellphone numbers”.
Cheeky Theo scribbled his cellular number on a scrap of paper and tossed it into Mels basket and his buddy did the same. The romance had begun and Melanie Slade and Theo Walcott have been an item ever since.
Walcott stated they don’t seem to be a typical “footballer couple” and would not let the media attention affect them. He mentioned: “We haven’t been to any footballer parties at all. We’re not people who wish to party.”
Walcott has informed the media he and Melanie made a wager as to who may pass their driving take a look at first and Melanie received, as Theo failed his first take a look at and Melanie handed hers on the first time of asking.
There were no laborious emotions on shedding the guess and Theo spent £20,000 on a white VW Beetle for Melanie, affectionately known by as the ‘Love Bug’. Theo even registered the private number plate T4M symbolising ‘Theo for Melanie’ for his girlfriend.
Melanie shot into the media limelight when 17-yr-previous boyfriend Theo became a shock selection for England’s 2006 FIFA World Cup squad even though he had not featured in membership Arsenal’s Premiership marketing campaign and supervisor Sven Goran-Eriksson hadn’t seen him play.
Melanie has since change into a agency tabloid favorite and there was little surprise when in Might, a number one UK tabloid newspaper reportedly provided her £160,000 for a topless photograph shoot. She accepted the provide and appeared topless within the newspaper although she did protect her modesty by protecting up together with her hands.
She is using her new discovered status to help the 2006 Race for Life event organised by Cancer Analysis UK but has additionally requested for privateness while she revises for her exams.
Melanie is also the daughter of a now domestically well-known man. Her father, John Slade, not too long ago turned the 784th mayor of Southampton at a ceremony at the city’s Guild Hall.Nonetheless, she missed the ceremony as she had jetted off to Portugal to affix Theo’s World Cup preparations.
Melanie has acknowledged she is not going to make any additional decisions concerning the various media affords she has received until after the World Cup, though she could possibly be a permanent fixture in print and on screen over the following 12 months.
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