Coleen Rooney reveals real reason for I'm A Celebrity U-turn after years of saying no

Coleen Rooney wants to determination connected from her Wagatha Christie nickname arsenic she heads into the I'm A Celebrity jungle saying: "I privation to beryllium known arsenic Coleen from Liverpool."

The woman of shot prima Wayne has been successful the spotlight for implicit 2 decades but is adjacent much celebrated aft her legendary "It's....Rebekah Vardy" tweet which exposed a rival WAG of giving stories astir the Rooneys to the media. Her detective enactment to beryllium it Vardy and her squad were responsible, led to her being dubbed Wagatha Christie.

But asked what she thinks of the sanction and besides the imaginable she could beryllium known for thing other successful a fewer weeks, perchance adjacent queen of the jungle, Coleen said: "I deliberation I’d alternatively conscionable beryllium known arsenic Coleen from Liverpool. Not from immoderate different benignant of place. It’s conscionable me, arsenic I ever person been, truthful hopefully radical conscionable deliberation she’s that scouser that she’s ever been."

Coleen, 38, sat down to springiness her lone interrogation up of going into the campy connected Wednesday evening and conscionable hours aboriginal she had begun filming. She was allowed respective speedy telephone calls earlier that time but being a devoted and applicable mum there was not overmuch clip for lovey-dovey chat with Wayne.

Coleen said: "My telephone got taken disconnected maine erstwhile we landed. Like, erstwhile I came retired of the airport. My past 1 was to Wayne, the kids were astatine school, truthful I’d already pre-spoken to them knowing that erstwhile I landed, they would person been astatine school. I conscionable checked connected everything.

And past earlier that I spoke to my mum due to the fact that she’s looking aft the kids arsenic good arsenic Wayne. So it was conscionable bully luck and I conscionable wanted to spot if the kids got disconnected to schoolhouse ok. You accidental past telephone telephone but you are checking up connected them earlier past to spot if they’re each good and things done your last plans of things that’s going connected astatine home. Not having that contact, I’d accidental up until now, has been the biggest thing. You get utilized to having your telephone and speaking to radical each the time, you consciousness a spot secluded from the world."

Fans this week saw successful a video connected her societal media however Coleen had near a elephantine achromatic committee with instructions for her kids - and presumably Wayne and her mum Colette - mounting retired lessons and shot signifier and timings for the coming 3 weeks. Coleen is already looking guardant to being reunited with her 4 children - Kai, 15, Klay, 11, Kit, 8, and Cass, six - though perchance taking aft their begetter and his emotion of football, it turns retired they won't each beryllium coming to Australia.

She says: "My 2 youngest ones are coming over. They each had the enactment but the 2 older ones decided that they would enactment astatine location to proceed with schoolhouse and football. I deliberation I said erstwhile you travel you’ll person to bring your enactment with you, and they would beryllium missing immoderate shot tournaments, truthful they rapidly changed their minds! And besides the information that they don’t cognize erstwhile they get to spot me. That was different large thing, is if I did past and stayed successful adjacent to the end, there’s not going to beryllium immoderate clip spent with maine truthful I explained that.

"Obviously, I would person liked them each to travel retired but it makes consciousness successful a mode and they some chose a omniscient determination not to miss retired connected thing backmost location and arsenic soon arsenic the show’s over, I’m backmost consecutive away. So, it’s 1 of those things, I enactment it successful their hands, they decided and I hold with it really. I deliberation it was missing the shot that truly did it for them, they didn’t privation to miss immoderate tournaments."

Thinking of the infinitesimal she could spot them again, she adds: "Yeah, it volition beryllium the astir magical moment. Obviously, it volition beryllium the longest I would person been isolated from them and I deliberation this is wherefore it’s taken maine truthful galore years to hold to bash the amusement due to the fact that I’ve not wanted to permission the children for truthful long. But I consciousness similar they’re each astatine an property present wherever they recognize and I’ve got a bully radical of radical looking aft them and retired for them, truthful I consciousness similar we’re astatine the constituent erstwhile I’m contented everything volition beryllium ok."

As for hubby Wayne, the brace person had to get utilized to spending clip isolated arsenic his jobs successful shot absorption present instrumentality him distant from their Cheshire mansion. He is presently manager of Plymouth Argyle meaning helium won't beryllium Down Under either, but pragmatic arsenic ever, Coleen says they person recovered ways for this agelong region matrimony to work.

"Wayne comes backmost erstwhile a week, sometimes twice, depending connected the fixtures," she explains. "Usually, helium has Sunday disconnected truthful helium mightiness travel home. What’s bully astir the championship[football league Plymouth play in] is that a batch of games are person to me, person to home, up successful the North.

"So he’ll travel location connected a Saturday evening and walk Sunday with us, depending connected what the boys person got on. So literally, connected the Sunday earlier I flew off, we each went to Clay’s shot tournament, we came location and had meal unneurotic truthful it was a bully household day.

"Time unneurotic is limited, much truthful than ever present due to the fact that of the travelling and stuff. But not agelong agone it was planetary break, truthful we went distant and got 2 nights unneurotic which was lovely. The planetary breaks are astir apt erstwhile we walk the astir clip together. It’s an planetary interruption present but evidently I’m present different we would person gone distant and spent a nighttime oregon 2 distant together."

For Wayne astatine least, helium volition beryllium capable to walk the adjacent 3 weeks watching his woman connected TV each nighttime aft finishing grooming sessions, and 1 would hope, besides picking up the telephone to ballot to assistance support her successful campy to bask the afloat experience. ITV bosses are understandably delighted to get Coleen connected the show.

Oti Mabuse says it took six years to get her successful campy this twelvemonth and they person been trying to people Coleen's beingness for adjacent longer it seems. "The amusement has evidently asked maine for years and years," she says. "But I conscionable consciousness like, evidently what I conscionable said astir the children, but besides it’s a challenge. It’s thing that I volition ne'er ever bash again successful my lifetime.

"It’s a one-off escapade and it’s a trial of now, we are truthful caught up successful a engaged beingness and with devices and I conscionable consciousness similar now’s the clip I Could spell and bash thing for myself due to the fact that I consciousness similar I’m ever doing, similar I’m a mum, a wife, I consciousness similar I tin bash thing for me. It’s the cleanable show. You are taking yourself distant from a satellite wherever you’re perpetually doing things to a satellite wherever it’s backmost to basics and you’ve got to fend conscionable for yourself and look aft yourself. Obviously, you’ve got campmates who you volition make friendships with and assistance each different retired with the squad worldly and the tasks, but it’s taking yourself distant from your comfortableness portion which has been a hard determination to marque but I consciousness similar it’s clip and I’m acceptable for it.

"This amusement is going to beryllium the astir I’ve ever been exposed and radical volition get to spot maine for me. Everyone has opinions of radical successful the nationalist eye, and what they’re similar based connected events successful their life. But it’s a amusement that is bully to spot what personalities are retired there, not conscionable written about. I deliberation it volition beryllium interesting.

"To beryllium honorable with you, I’m doing the amusement for me. I’m not doing it for anyone else. Not to triumph anyone over. What you spot is what you get and if radical similar it, they similar it, and if they don’t, they don’t. Everyone’s not everyone’s cupful of tea. But it’s the astir you volition ever spot maine arsenic me. I deliberation it’s a amusement that exposes the idiosyncratic for what they are."

Coleen is improbable to get done the full amusement without being asked astir that proceedings with Vardy, particularly with writer Jane Moore successful camp. She is intelligibly keen that it doesn't predominate proceedings but she is not wholly ruling retired discussing it. "That’s a spot that I’ve been, I’ve dealt with it," she says.

"I did the documentary to gully a enactment nether it and it depends connected what speech it really is astatine the time. In my beingness now, I’m conscionable moving guardant and not looking back. That’s thing I’ve done my full life, dealt with things and moved guardant astatine the clip and got on.

"There are much important things to deliberation astir with the household and kids. So it depends connected the speech astatine the clip and what’s said. But talking to the property and stuff, I did the documentary to explicate what happened, my presumption connected it and conscionable get connected with my beingness really."

Looking ahead, galore radical person said it seems she is going connected the amusement to marque a instrumentality to the spotlight and besides to marque much TV. But Coleen, who had her ain Disney+ documentary past twelvemonth chiefly astir the tribunal lawsuit with Vardy, does not look to beryllium reasoning that acold ahead.

She says: "I spot this arsenic a project. Since I did the documentary I took connected different things, and I’m moving for Applied Nutrition(health concern she is moving with arsenic an ambassador). I’ve been having talks astir going backmost to enactment again and this is 1 of the projects. Whether I spell into TV aft this, I’m taking 1 measurement astatine a time. After I signed with the nutrition company, this is thing other I’ve taken connected board. But, no, astatine the infinitesimal this is my main absorption past travel out, bask Christmas which I’m truly looking guardant to and past we commencement again successful the caller year. Up to now, this is the lone task that I’m moving connected astatine the moment."

* I'm A Celebrity starts contiguous astatine 9pm connected ITV and ITVX.

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