Coleen Rooney’s mum Colette has opened up about her TV reunion with her daughter and her two grandsons Kit, eight, and Cass, six, who visited her in the jungle
Coleen asked her mum if she was coming across as boring (Image: ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
Coleen Rooney’s mum, Colette, has shared her heart-wrenching reunion with her daughter on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here. The touching moment when Coleen met her two boys, Kit, eight, and Cass, six, aired on Friday 6 December. “As I held her, one of the things she said to me was ‘mum, have I been boring?'” Colette revealed. “It broke my heart hearing that but I told her, ‘no, you’ve been yourself and that’s all that matters.'”
In a candid chat with the Mirror, Colette praised her daughter’s humble attitude. “She is obviously thinking about what people are thinking, but she needn’t worry,” she says. “If she went in shouting and being loud, that wouldn’t be her. We’ve seen the true Coleen.”
Coleen was reunited with her mum and two of her sons on Friday (Image: ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
After a long separation, Colette was keen to find out how Coleen was coping in the jungle during her camp visit, reports the Mirror. However, she quickly realised just how challenging the experience had been for her daughter. “She said that she didn’t want me to go, and I said ‘come home now, come home.'” Colette explains.
“But then she calmed down, and I asked her: ‘how is it?’ She said that she had a headache for the first few days because she was getting no sugar, and must have been detoxing, but then she said how hard it had been.”
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Coleen was able to show her family the I’m A Celeb camp (Image: ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
As viewers witnessed, the arrival of her boys significantly boosted Coleen’s spirits. And in the minutes before seeing their mum, they were practically bubbling over with excitement. “They keep asking: ‘Is she here, really?’ They kept thinking she was going to jump out from behind a bush any minute,” Colette shares. “We kept saying to them ‘five more minutes and you’ll see your mum again’. They just couldn’t wait. It was so lovely.”
When the long-awaited reunion occurred, it was deeply moving for Colette. “I heard almost a squeal of a cry from her, and my heart just lifted when I saw her,” she recalls fondly. “It was wonderful seeing the boys in her arms, and they were so excited.”
She also told of how eagerly the children took to exploring their mum’s temporary home: “They really wanted to see the dunny and the beds, and were asking endless questions,” Colette chuckles, remembering their sheer curiosity. “They were obsessed. Coming away was hard but we told them it won’t be long before you see your mum again, and they accepted that, although Cass got quite emotional at the end.”
