Coleen Rooney has responded to rumours about her stint on the forthcoming series of I’m A Celebrity...
Get Me Out of Here . The 38-year-old TV personality and businesswoman has long been rumoured to be a contestant on the series , which sees well-known personalities undergo a series of gruelling and nauseating challenges. Her Wagatha Christie opponent Rebekah Vardy even joined in on the speculation with a dig at Rooney, sharing a throwback of herself in the jungle with a pigeon emoji, which some interpreted as a reference to her comparing Rooney to a “pigeon that would sh*t on your hair”.
However, Rooney cleared up the speculation, with a rare video of herself on social media . She also responded to rumours that she would be exempt from challenges. “I never do videos like this,” she said in a post on Instagram on Monday (11 November).
“A lot of you might have seen and heard, and there’s been a lot of speculation but I can confirm I am going in the jungle. “You know what, they’ve asked me for so many years now and I’ve always put it off because the kids have been young and there’s been a lot on, but this year I thought you know what, I quite fancy it. “I want to experience something different, do something for myself and meet new people.
I’m really looking forward to doing the trials.” Responding to rumours that she had been made exempt from some challenges on account of illnesses, she said: “There’s been a lot of news saying I am exempt because.