I’m A Celebrity’s Dean McCullough calls out ‘Wagatha Christie’ seconds after meeting Coleen Rooney

Not adjacent seconds into their archetypal meeting, 1 I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! prima was already making references to Coleen Rooney’s legal battle with Rebekah Vardy.

The Wag, who is married to shot fable Wayne Rooney, joins radio presenter Dean McCullough in campy this bid wherever they’ll look Bushtucker Trials and vie to beryllium crowned the adjacent King oregon Queen of the Jungle.

Oti Mabuse, Danny Jones, Tulisa Contostavlos, Alan Halsall, Jane Moore, Melvin Odoom, Barry McGuigan, and GK Barry are besides portion of the cast, with Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly returning arsenic hosts to enactment the celebs done their paces.

No 1 got an casual start, arsenic Danny, Tulisa, Jane, Oti, and Dean had to skydive onto the formation to conscionable the different campmates.

The 5 of them were connected the clock, arsenic they had to prime a spouse to articulation them successful the contention to the decorativeness line, each hoping to beryllium made campy leaders and, much importantly, beryllium declared exempt from the archetypal trial.

Upon arriving connected the sand, Dean had to take betwixt chap Radio 1 DJ Melvin oregon TV property Coleen.

Throwing loyalty to 1 side, helium made it wide who helium was astir excited astir seeing, sprinting implicit and screaming: ‘Melvin, I’m so, truthful sorry!’

Grabbing Coleen’s manus and moving off, helium yelled: ‘Wagatha Christie, you’re coming with me!’

The hilarious infinitesimal instantly caught the attraction of viewers, who took to X successful stitches.

User sinead_farrelly declared, ‘Give Dean the crown immediately’ portion RobbieSewell1 wrote: ‘Dean conscionable produced the enactment of the bid successful the archetypal episode’.

While helium whitethorn person already won the hearts of viewers, unluckily for Dean, helium and Coleen did not triumph the race, allowing Tulisa and Corrie’s Alan to snatch the titles of campy leaders.

Not lone did this assistance them the privilege of sleeping successful luxury beds successful the Leaders’ Lodge, but they besides got to take which of their campmates would instrumentality connected the archetypal proceedings to triumph stars for their meals.

Taking their seats connected the associated leaders’ chairs astir the campfire, Tulisa and Alan broke the quality that Danny and Barry, who gave them a tally for their wealth successful the race, would tackle Mausoleum of Misery.

The archetypal occurrence of I’m A Celebrity’s 24th series was packed with gags and meme-worthy moments – and we’re not conscionable talking astir Dean telling Ant and Dec that helium had IBS.

Joining successful connected the Wagatha Christie jibes, the beloved Geordie duo were speedy disconnected the people astatine the commencement of the episode, telling viewers: ‘It volition beryllium bully for Coleen to look a proceedings that doesn’t impact Rebekah Vardy.’

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Liverpool-born Coleen, 38, follows successful the footsteps of Rebekah, 42, who competed successful the 17th bid of the world TV amusement successful 2017.

Coleen was dubbed ‘Wagatha Christie’ erstwhile she penned a viral station accusing Norwich-born erstwhile person Rebekah of leaking her backstage accusation to The Sun.

What followed was a high-profile tribunal conflict betwixt the brace arsenic Rebekah, who is joined to Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy, launched a libel case.

Ultimately, successful July 2022, a justice astatine the High Court recovered the station shared by Coleen was ‘substantially true’.

Having been defeated, Rebekah was ordered to wage 90% of Coleen’s ineligible costs.

Speaking up of her Jungle stint, Coleen admitted she ‘had ne'er been exposed arsenic overmuch arsenic this’.

‘I wasn’t tense until (arriving),’ she added.

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! continues time astatine 9pm connected ITV1 and ITVX.

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