Wayne Rooney has recalled transforming into Freddie Mercury at his early 40th birthday bash.

The 39-year-old former professional football player danced around a vacuum while he donned sexy heels, a black leather skirt, a sleeveless skintight pink top, magenta earrings and a black wig, to mimic the late Queen frontman's iconic look in the band's 1984 video for I Want to Break Free.

Wayne then took to the karaoke, but the fun for his wife Coleen - who organized the luxurious weekend away with friends to a plush lakeside estate in the Cotswolds, West Oxfordshire - was short-lived as she tripped from her heels and broke her foot.

The sportsman - who turns 40 on October 24 - said on the latest episode of his The Wayne Rooney Show podcast: "It was great, one night was fancy dress. I was Freddie Mercury. I wore high heels, a black leather skirt, a skintight t-shirt tucked in, and a hoover.

"So I was walking round with a hoover, but my feet were intact. Coleen actually slipped in her heels and broke her foot.

"It was great [weekend]. And we had different bands coming out, singing and performing and stuff. And I got up, obviously, it was good fun.

"I obviously done Bohemian Rhapsody. Me and My Monkey by Robbie Williams - that's my go-to song."

Wayne's comments come as a source previously said he was "in his element" as Freddie - who died from bronchial pneumonia caused by AIDS at the age of 45 in November 1991.

The insider - who also said Coleen arranged for helicopters to whisk them and their pals to the stunning property in the Cotswolds - told The Sun: "Everyone knows Wayne really loves singing, but he was in his element as Freddie Mercury.

"He looked the part and blasted out some of Queen's best-known tunes."