Exclusive: Coleen Rooney reveals I’m A Celebrity stars slept outside of camp one night

Coleen Rooney has opened up about her time on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! and revealed that the campmates were forced to flee camp in the middle of the night

This year’s batch of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! stars spent a night outside of the camp, Coleen Rooney has revealed.

The Scouse star, 38, narrowly missed out on the jungle crown on Sunday night, coming runner-up to McFly singer Danny Jones. Speaking exclusively to the Mirror, Coleen looks back on her time on the ITV show – the highs and the lows – and revealed how extreme weather forced them to flee camp on night.

Coleen – who says she got terrible headaches after detoxing from caffeine and sugar – said the first few days in the Australian outback were “tough before it started getting better.” But she adds: “As it got better, the weather got worse. And then that was tough.”

The weather was the worst in the show’s history with the camp battered by endless storms. “There was one night where we got all got woken up in the early hours in the morning to go into the Bush Telegraph because of a storm” she says. “I was asleep in there, Alan was asleep. You think this isn’t what we thought the jungle would be.”

Coleen smiling in camp
Coleen Rooney was a huge hit with ITV viewers 
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Elsewhere during her chat with the Mirror after narrowly losing out to Danny, Coleen admits she secretly questioned her place on the show after just one week – because she missed her family too much. She shares how she sobbed after just a few days after being reminded of husband Wayne Rooney and their sons whose faces were emblazoned on her pillow.

“n that first week, I did wake up one morning and I looked at the pillow and I saw on it obviously Wayne and the kids, and I had a little cry and I thought I don’t know whether I can go all this way,” she recalls. But she says she “soon snapped out it” by getting stuck into her chores instead – namely the washing up.

“I went off and did the washing up and collected the wood and did whatever I had to do,” she says. “I just got on with it.” Coleen then shares how the first few days were also tough as she worried she wasn’t a big enough personality like some of the other campmates, and too quiet.

“In the first week I just thought I can’t see me going all the way because I was just me,” the mum-of-four admits. “We had loads of personalities in there who were great and I got on with, but they were performers and I felt like I was, at times, just sat there thinking, ‘what do I bring?’

“It wasn’t uncomfortable. They made it comfortable. It was just me sitting back and looking at that camp and thinking I was more quieter than everyone else. But obviously people enjoyed it and wanted me to stay in there longer and see a bit more of me. I don’t know why but they did.”

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