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Melanie Slade is the girlfriend of Arsenal footballer Theo Walcott and the latest addition to the real “Footballer’s Wives” stable. She first met the England squad member exterior the store the place she worked at West Quay shopping mall in Southampton. Melanie was outdoors with a basket in her hand when Walcott’s good friend introduced “the basket is for phone numbers”.
Cheeky Theo scribbled his mobile quantity on a scrap of paper and tossed it into Mels basket and his pal did the same. The romance had begun and Melanie Slade and Theo Walcott have been an item ever since.
Walcott stated they are not a typical “footballer couple” and wouldn’t let the media attention have an effect on them. He stated: “We have not been to any footballer parties at all. We’re not individuals who like to party.”
Walcott has instructed the media he and Melanie made a guess as to who may pass their driving check first and Melanie gained, as Theo failed his first check and Melanie passed hers on the first time of asking.
There were no arduous emotions on losing 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 non-public number plate T4M symbolising ‘Theo for Melanie’ for his girlfriend.
Melanie shot into the media limelight when 17-12 months-old boyfriend Theo grew to become a shock selection for England’s 2006 FIFA World Cup squad despite the fact that he had not featured in club Arsenal’s Premiership campaign and supervisor Sven Goran-Eriksson hadn’t seen him play.
Melanie has since grow to be a agency tabloid favourite and there was little shock when in Might, a number one UK tabloid newspaper reportedly supplied her £one hundred sixty,000 for a topless photo shoot. She accepted the provide and appeared topless within the newspaper though she did protect her modesty by overlaying up with her hands.
She is utilizing her new discovered status to assist the 2006 Race for Life event organised by Cancer Analysis UK however has additionally requested for privacy while she revises for her exams.
Melanie can also be the daughter of a now regionally well-known man. Her father, John Slade, just lately became the 784th mayor of Southampton at a ceremony on the metropolis’s Guild Hall.Nevertheless, she missed the ceremony as she had jetted off to Portugal to join Theo’s World Cup preparations.
Melanie has said she won’t make any additional decisions concerning the numerous media presents she has acquired till after the World Cup, though she may very well be a permanent fixture in print and on screen over the following 12 months.
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