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I’m A Celeb star Coleen Rooney reveals her biggest fears about jungle life – and it wasnt the bugs or trials
It came after the mum just missed out on the jungle crown
COLEEN Rooney has revealed her biggest fears about the I'm A Celebrity jungle - and they had nothing to do with critter-filled trials or brutal bugs.
The ITV star came runner-up in Sunday's reality show final, before appearing via a live video link from the Gold Coast to Monday's Good Morning Britain.
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Coleen, 38 - who The Sun revealed will be the new queen of daytime TV - told how she was "ready to leave" camp as she came in second-place to winner Danny Jones.
And the mum-of-four, married to former footballer-turned-manager Wayne Rooney, 39, revealed how she had battled her surprise fears successfully during her time on the show.
Coleen told GMB hosts Susanna Reid, 53, and Richard Madeley, 68, how she was determined to "stay true to myself" and admitted: "My fears weren't the trials or sleeping outside or critters.
"It was karaoke and cooking.
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"I didn't have to cook, because we had some cooks in there - and on the karaoke night, I enjoyed everyone else and had a sing-along.
"I stuck to my guns - I didn't do karaoke, so why would I go on a show and think I had to do it?
"I just enjoyed everyone else doing it."
The busy parent then clarified she cooked for her boys at home, just not the "shark fin and eels" that were presented in camp.
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She also opened up on the "withdrawals from caffeine, sugar and booze which hit on day three in the compound Down Under.
The WAG joked: "I don't think I will ever cook rice and beans again out of the jungle."
Coleen Rooney admits ‘I was ready to leave the jungle’ as she breaks silence on losing I’m A Celebrity
JUNGLE QUEEN
Shortly after she was hailed jungle runner-up on Sunday's I'm A Celeb, Coleen told how she hadn't expected to be in camp for so long.
It came after her mum revealed the heartbreaking question the I'm A Celeb star asked her when she went into camp.
It also followed a sweet reunion with sons Kit and Cass in the jungle base.
While Coleen said she was proud to get so far on I'm A Celeb, peaking on spin-off show Unpacked, she told host Joel Dommett that she had been waiting to leave for a while.
I'm A Celebrity - All The Winners
Here's every star who has been crowned King or Queen of the Jungle to date:
- 2024: Danny Jones, McFly star
- 2023: Sam Thompson, Made in Chelsea star
- 2022: Jill Scott, England footballer
- 2021: Danny Miller, Emmerdale star
- 2020: Giovanna Fletcher, actress and podcaster
- 2019: Jacqueline Jossa, EastEnders star
- 2018: Harry Redknapp, England legend
- 2017: Georgia Toffolo, Made In Chelsea star
- 2016: Scarlett Moffatt, Gogglebox star
- 2015: Vicky Pattison, Geordie Shore star
- 2014: Carl Fogarty, famed racer
- 2013: Kian Egan, Westlife star
- 2012: Charlie Brooks, EastEnders actor
- 2011: Dougie Poynter, McFly star
- 2010: Stacey Solomon, X Factor star now TV personality
- 2009: Gino D'ACampo, TV Chef
- 2008: Joe Swash, TV personality
- 2007: Christopher Biggins, actor
- 2006: Matt Willis, Busted star
- 2005: Carol Thatcher, author and broadcaster
- 2004 (second series): Joe Pasquale, comedian
- 2004: Kerry Katona, Atomic Kitten star and reality star
- 2003: Phil Tufnell, England Cricketer
- 2002: Tony Blackburn, Radio DJ
There was also an All Star series in South Africa in 2023, which was won by Myleene Klass.
“I didn't think I would make it that far,” she said. “You know, I was ready to go a week ago. And you know, I have my bag packed every morning with everything in, and then I go back up and unpack, and then I come back.”
“But the feeling that people are voting to keep it in meant a lot to me,” she added.
“And you know, I've celebrated a lot of people in my life, so for people to celebrate me, I felt it was quite yet special."
“I've learned that I can be patient.” she said of what she found out about herself in the jungle.
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“Yeah, there's been times in there where, you know, no one's annoying me, but there's been certain things who have wanted to step in and do it but I've let it be, so I think I'm going to be a bit more patient when I get out of here.”
She also said she hoped that she made her four kids - Kai, Klay, Kit and Cass - would be proud of her.
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