It appears that footballer Wayne Rooney may have gone back to his old habit – this time allegedly – of employing the services of prostitutes.
The fact that he recently may have done so whilst married and his wife was pregnant is a matter for his conscience alone and for the couple to sort out. After all, the bare facts – married man fucks prostitute – don’t seem to be very newsworthy and the fact that the man in question is a famous sportsman doesn’t seem to add very much in the way of interest.
Of course, the DTP doesn’t quite see it that way and the Mail in particular seemed to have a field day yesterday with no less than 24 photos of the prostitute in question – Jennifer Thompson or Juci Jeni to give her her trade name – in poses that could be described in tabloid terms as ‘saucy’. My guess is that this one article alone by the Mail probably contained more ‘saucy’ photos than an entire issue of any of the other red tops – the Sport excepted, perhaps.
The insistence of the Mail in keeping what it likes to depict as a lone journalistic watch on public decency from the vantage point of the highest possible moral ground might be laudable to some, but its coverage of stories such as that of Rooney and Juci Jeni seems designed to titillate whilst being censorious.
Anyone remember the Ross/Brand/Sachs ‘I fucked your granddaughter’ story? Sure enough, the Mail had a field day accusing Ross and Brand of outraging public decency, the BBC of failing to prevent this happening and then commiserating with Sachs – who seemed less upset than most of the Mail readers who’d been whipped up into a moral frenzy by the paper’s ‘journalists’.
Of course, when it emerged that Sach’s granddaughter was a Goth fetishist dancer making a living out of flaunting what Brand had enjoyed handling, out came every photo the Mail could get hold of – and the ‘raunchier’ the better.
The photos of Juci Jeni that the Mail has used seem to have been mostly lifted from her Facebook and My Space pages, but the article also speaks of
New pictures obtained by MailOnline
Perhaps these include the one of her as a child of about 9 or 10 which has this rather strange caption:
Family time: Jennifer as a child jokes around with a cigarette as she poses with what’s thought to be a male relative
Is it just me, or is there a vague but possibly unpleasant inference being made here? Why not crop the picture so that any doubt can be eliminated? The presence of a mystery male in this picture adds nothing to any point the Mail is feebly trying to make and just introduces a vague but rather prurient element of innuendo. And can’t we just assume that his presence is entirely appropriate – or should all photos of children with adults be similarly captioned?
Even when discussing what appears to be a perfectly normal photo of Ms Thompson in a bikini on a sun lounger the Mail seems to be determined to inflame its readers’ sensibilities with its description of her as ‘semi-naked:
Fuck me rigid, I bet the Mail never described Princess Diana as ‘semi-naked’ when it ran with photos of her in a bikini.
Then there’s the cheesy caption for this same photo which even the Star’s editor would have rejected:
Topping up the tan: Even while sunbathing, Jennifer makes sure she is showing off her best angles
No, there’s a lot going on in the subtext here with a moralising tone accompanying the many photographs of Ms Thompson in what aren’t very many clothes at all.
Rampant gutter-press hypocrisy from a paper which plumbs new depths in its search for material with which to simultaneously outrage and stimulate its execrable readership.
To conclude:
- To any female reader who was outraged by the story – you really, really should find something more worthy of such feelings. How about child sex trafficking for starters?
- To any male reader who got a visit from Mr Stiffy whilst looking at Juci Jeni’s photos – splurge a few quid on a decent wank mag and then give the missus her monthly rogering a bit earlier. Maybe it’ll stop her being outraged for the 2 minutes it’ll probably take you.
- To the staff at the Mail who were responsible for this story in any way – you really are a shower of fucking overpaid Grade A creeps.
- To Wayne Rooney – try and keep a little energy back for scoring some fucking English goals. After all, at £1200 a shag the bonus payments could come in handy.
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Steve,
I actually started writing a follow up to my initial story on Rooney and the gutter press. I then deleted it and saw your article. Nice one. I deleted it because I thought “fuck it. Leave it in the bin where it belongs.”
I was simply amazed that the Daily Laim should turn into a soft porn mag with all the juicy gossip. I mean who gives a flying fuck whom Rooney had a threesome with? I didn’t read the article only the headline, but sure as the light of day, the Mail is nothing but a pedlar of decadence and filth and very much the reason our society is the shithole it is today.
How people can read that pile of shite is beyond me. If they do it means they must have really uninteresting, boring, mundane existences. If someone said to me “Did you hear about Wayne Rooney…blah..blah..” I’d say simply “Not interested. His life means nothing to me whatsoever.”
Although some may say I’m a hypocrite after writing about it on my blog it was more to emphasize the point of our gutter press, propaganda and the indoctrination of society.
Like you I was amazed when I saw the headline. And people buy and read this stuff?