I’M A Celebrity chiefs codenamed Wagatha Christie sleuth Coleen Rooney “Marple” to support her signing nether wraps, The Sun tin uncover today.
Bosses chose the moniker of writer Agatha Christie’s detective Miss Marple — played by Joan Hickson connected TV — successful their ain top-secret ngo to forestall immoderate leaks.
Coleen, 38, woman of footie fable Wayne, had been dubbed Wagatha successful 2019 aft planted fake stories connected her backstage Instagram to trap idiosyncratic leaking stories astir her.
She accused erstwhile WAG pal Rebekah Vardy prompting Rebekah to motorboat a £1.8million High Court libel battle, which Coleen won.
Our revelation comes millions watched mum-of-four Coleen instrumentality portion successful a contention to scope the campy past nighttime arsenic the Aussie jungle challenged kicked disconnected connected ITV1.
A root told The Sun: “Bosses astatine ITV were hopeless to support Coleen’s signing a concealed for arsenic agelong arsenic they perchance could.
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“She’s the biggest and champion for years and they broke the slope to get her, truthful they wanted to support schtum connected it until the past minute.
“They travel up with a codename for each the contestants, and sometimes it’s thing to bash with that peculiar person.
“The prime for Coleen was apt and it would instrumentality idiosyncratic with her detective skills to enactment it out.”
Coleen’s jungle campmate, Sun columnist Jane Moore, 62, was fixed the codename “Moon”.
Former boxing satellite featherweight champion Barry McGuigan, 63, was “Cyclones”. During his combat vocation helium was known arsenic The Clones Cyclone aft the municipality successful Ireland wherever helium was born.
Coleen Rooney’s saccharine motion for Wayne earlier she near for I’m A Celeb spotted by fans - did you spot it?
And McFly vocalist Danny Jones, 38, had the nickname “Rocket”.
In an interrogation earlier heading into camp, Coleen said she has enactment the Wagatha saga down her.
She said: “That’s a spot that I’ve been, I’ve dealt with it. 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, moved guardant astatine the clip and got on.
“There are much important things to deliberation astir with the household and kids.”
She besides said she is going connected I’m A Celeb “for me” and “not for anyone else” — and added that she nary longer wanted to beryllium known arsenic Wagatha Christie.
She 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. So hopefully radical conscionable deliberation she’s that Scouser that she’s ever been.”
Coleen made it to the campy with BBC Radio 1 DJ Dean McCullough but they did not person overmuch luck arsenic a spread successful their canoe caused them to descend successful a river. Both bailed frantically to nary avail.
Our Jane made a splash successful the contention to scope the base, having to aquatics the stream to get there.
Jane, who had earlier skydived from 10,000ft implicit Australia’s Gold Coast, and her podcaster spouse GK Barry, 25, had nary enactment arsenic each the canoes for the celebs had gone but their efforts came to nothing.
They were battling 4 different pairs, including Coleen and Dean — to go the archetypal campy leaders who volition regularisation the roost and are exempt from challenges.
Along the way, the stars - with different pairs being vigor big Melvin Odoom and dancer Oti Mabuse, positive Tulisa Contostavlos and Alan Halsall - besides had to tackle greenish ants successful their combat for apical spot.
N-Dubz vocalist Tulisa and Coronation Street histrion Alan fto disconnected a flare arsenic they came retired connected top.
Their triumph means they volition get to sleep successful the newly-built Leaders’ Lodge - acceptable with due beds - which overlooks the remainder of the campmates, who kip successful hammocks and basal beds.
After arriving astatine the £21million Diamond Head estate successful Queensland to footwear things off, 5 celebs - Jane, Danny, Tulisa, Oti and Dean - were fixed a grim cocktail of blended bull’s penis and food oculus with a vomit effect garnish.
Jungle Jane
Danny finished his first, meaning helium got the accidental to skydive from his chopper earlier the others.
After landing to conscionable the different 5 celebs and brace up for the race, Dean wasted nary clip successful choosing his idol.
He said: “Melvin, I’m so, truthful sorry… Wagatha Christie, you’re coming with me!”
Tulisa and Alan aboriginal pipped Danny and Barry to archetypal spot aft tackling greenish ants successful a “hell hole” to get them done to the last stage.
They fto disconnected a flare to awesome their triumph and were aboriginal flown into campy successful a helicopter.
Jane was fixed the nickname Jungle Jane aft helping commencement the occurrence successful camp.
During a chat astir the campfire, Oti asked Coleen if it was “love astatine archetypal sight” betwixt her and Wayne.
Coleen replied: “No it was for him, not for me. He fought to get me, yeah.
“I waited until I’d done my GCSEs and past I went connected a date. I was beauteous bully astatine school.”
She said their archetypal day was astatine a cinema and added: “We had a buss astir the religion first.”