Coleen Rooney has signed up for this year’s I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! for a record-breaking fee, according to reports.
Mrs Rooney’s wage is rumoured to be beyond Nigel Farage’s £1.5 million fee last year and viewers will hope the 38-year-old may provide shocking behind-the-scenes updates about her epic fallout with Rebekah Vardy.
ITV bosses also hope that the mother of four may reveal more details about her marriage to England legend Wayne Rooney, reports the Sun on Sunday.
A source told the newspaper: “I’m A Celeb bosses have pulled off a huge coup getting Coleen for the jungle this year and the team are thrilled to have her on board.
"She’s always been a massive fan of the show and loves watching it with her boys. ITV are over the moon that the stars have aligned this year and she can fit it in. The series is set to be one of the best yet.
“Coleen has a huge fanbase and she won massive plaudits for her classy handling of the Wagatha Christie case.
“She’s excited to show fans a different side to her and prove she can survive without her creature comforts.”
Mrs Rooney is said to be flying out to Australia next month to join the ITV reality series hosted by Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly.
But an ITV spokesperson said: “Any names suggested for I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! are just speculation.”
The announcement comes days after the Wagatha Christie scandal was thrust back into the limelight.
Mrs Vardy was ordered to pay Mrs Rooney a further £100,000 on Wednesday following their high-profile libel battle ahead of the full amount owed being decided.
Barristers for the two have appeared in court in a dispute over legal costs after Mrs Vardy lost her High Court claim against Mrs Rooney in 2022.
It followed Mrs Rooney accusing Mrs Vardy of leaking her private information to the press on social media, with Wednesday marking five years since the viral post at the heart of the dispute.
Mrs Rooney sparked a social media frenzy by ending a bombshell post about her private life being leaked with the words: “It’s . . . Rebekah Vardy’s account.”
In the post, Mrs Rooney publicly claimed Mrs Vardy’s account was the source behind three stories in The Sun newspaper featuring fake details she had posted on her private Instagram profile – her travelling to Mexico for a “gender selection” procedure, her planning to return to TV, and the basement flooding at her home.
After the high-profile trial, Mrs Justice Steyn ruled in Mrs Rooney’s favour in July 2022, finding the post was “substantially true” and that it was “likely” Mrs Vardy’s agent, Caroline Watt, had passed information to The Sun.
She added Mrs Vardy, the wife of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy, “knew of and condoned this behaviour”.
Mrs Rooney was also in the news last year after she admitted feeling “hurt and shame” when her husband Wayne hit the headlines for sleeping with a sex worker.
The businesswoman spoke for the first time about the incident, which took place in 2002 when the former England footballer was 16, in her new autobiography, My Account.
Mrs Rooney also shared that she and the former Manchester United player had full-on “screaming matches” after she learned about his infidelity when he slept with Gina McCarrick, then 37, at a brothel that charged £45 in Liverpool.
The couple were childhood sweethearts and first got together when they were 16. They married in an idyllic ceremony in Italy and in 2009 and have since welcomed four sons together.
Last year, the pair released their debut documentary series titled Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story which followed her High Court battle with Mrs Vardy on Disney+.
Mrs Vardy appeared on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! in 2017, becoming the third campmate to be eliminated.
