Coleen Rooney has opened up about the moment she was close to ‘walking away’ from I’m A Celebrity. The Wagatha Christie icon, 38, lasted all 23 days in the jungle, and came in second place to McFly singer Danny Jones. Along the way, she brought us plenty of entertainment, from spilling the tea on her life with Wayne and their four children in their £20,000,000 mansion, to branding Donald Trump a ‘dirty b*****d’.
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But there was one point she was close to quitting the jungle, despite close bonds she formed with the likes of Oti Mabuse and GK Barry. Speaking on The Overlap’s Stick to Football podcast, she said: ‘Going on I’m A Celebrity was to challenge myself. I’ve been asked year after year, and I’ve always said no because the kids were too young, and I had other stuff going on in life.
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‘It’s the one show that I’ve always said if I were to do any show, it would be that because I’ve watched it for years and loved it. So, I thought why not? And I’m glad I did.’. She went on: ‘A few days in I thought, what am I doing here? I thought that I could walk. I was sitting there, and I had all these big characters singing and dancing around me and I was thinking, what am I going to bring to this show? I’m just me.
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‘There were certain conversations going on, and my Dad told me not to swear when I went in there, but they were all talking about sex and everything else and I was thinking, “I can’t do this, I need to go and walk away,” and you just think, this isn’t me.
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