WAG Rebekah Vardy isn't holding backmost erstwhile it comes to Coleen Rooney's upcoming stint successful the jungle.
Scouse prima Coleen, 38, is hopeful that appearing connected I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! volition springiness radical "a amended thought of what benignant of idiosyncratic I am" - but Rebekah has a feeling her aged nemesis could amusement a darker broadside to her wholesome property arsenic she camps nether the stars successful Australia.
The woman of erstwhile Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney, 38, has been embroiled successful a high-profile libel conflict with chap footballer’s woman Rebekah, who antecedently competed connected the ITV world amusement successful 2017. Ahead of the 2024 bid premiering connected Sunday, mum-of-five Rebekah has revealed what she truly thinks of Coleen's large TV deal.
"Coleen’s ineligible squad were precise dismissive astir my world TV past. They mocked it," she says successful a lengthy interrogation astir Coleen. "So for her to beryllium doing the jungle now, it’s hypocrisy astatine its finest, isn’t it? I deliberation determination was ever a program for reinvention. She stayed retired of the nationalist oculus for truthful long."
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ITV/REX/Shutterstock)Rebekah added:" There were truthful galore stories, antagonistic stories, astir Wayne. And I deliberation she wanted to crook things astir for herself. We’ve gone from a idiosyncratic astir whom her ineligible squad stood up successful tribunal and said, ‘She’s specified a backstage individual’, and present this alleged backstage idiosyncratic is going connected 1 of the biggest world TV shows successful the UK. I mean, it’s ironic really."
Speaking to The Sun, Rebekah admitted she volition beryllium watching Coleen connected the amusement but doesn't deliberation the mum-of-four volition travel crossed well. She claims Coleen is "quite calculated" with everything that she does and "likes to beryllium the victim" - adding she suspects her rival volition participate the jungle with a crippled plan.
Coleen was confirmed successful the I'm A Celebrity 2024 line-up connected Monday night, alongside erstwhile Strictly Come Dancing prima Oti Mabuse, champion boxer Barry McGuigan, N-Dubz set subordinate Tulisa Contostavlos, Coronation Street histrion Alan Halsall, Loose Women ’s Jane Moore, and McFly vocalist Danny Jones.
When asked astir the "biggest misconception" she wants to dispel, Coleen said: "I person been successful the nationalist oculus for implicit 20 years present and radical instrumentality what they privation from it. I bash deliberation radical volition get a amended thought of what benignant of idiosyncratic I am. It has been twelvemonth aft twelvemonth I person been asked to spell connected a programme, and it’s ever been a consecutive 'no'.
"Over the years, determination person been antithetic things going connected successful my beingness and also, my children person been truly young. But they are astatine an property present wherever I tin spell distant for this magnitude of time. I besides consciousness it’s clip to person a situation for maine and bash thing different. It has taken many, galore years but I’m yet doing it. And I person ever said, if I was going to bash 1 – past it would beryllium this show. I deliberation it volition beryllium bully for me."
Aside from her friends and family, Coleen says she volition astir miss her telephone successful the jungle on with a notepad and pen, arsenic she loves "jotting things down". She besides said that she is frightened of heights, and explained her champion property is that she is “quite a focused person”, portion her worst – according to Wayne – is her snoring.
Wayne is "supportive", and "fine" with her being connected camera 24/7 successful the jungle, but would beryllium incapable to perpetrate to the agelong filming clip of the ITV world amusement himself. Coleen added: "I americium not saying helium would spell in, but helium wouldn’t beryllium wholly enactment off. I haven’t spoken astir it with my younger 2 boys arsenic not galore know, but my eldest lad told me: ‘Yeah, spell for it.’ My 2nd 1 was a spot much emotional. He thought astir maine being distant for a agelong magnitude of time, but hopefully that volition pass. My parents are blessed excessively that I’m doing thing for me."
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