​​Who is Jane Moore in ITV I'm A Celebrity 2024?

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here is back with a brand new cast of famous faces set to battle it out to be crowned King or Queen of the Jungle.

The popular ITV show, described as television’s toughest entertainment challenge, will once again test the celebs’ endurance and will power - especially through the daily, critter-filled Bushtucker Trials. Ten celebrities were set to enter the Australian jungle as 2024’s series began on Sunday - and among them was journalist and Loose Women panellist Jane Moore.

Jane has been a regular on the ITV daytime TV show since 2013, standing in as anchor since 2018. She is also known for being a columnist for The Sun newspaper - while she regularly writes for the Sunday Times too.

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Speaking before heading into the jungle, she described how she would bring her journalistic curiosity to the camp.

“I will fill the hours with good chat,” she said. “I find people really interesting and I want to have organic conversations. I won’t be like, ‘Tell me about the time…’ but I will be asking questions just because I am interested.

“I hope they (fellow campmates) don’t get offended!”

She added: “I’m apprehensive about being away from home, being isolated and away from my phone and laptop – but actually, this is also the very thing I am looking forward to. I have never done a reality show before and I’ve always said when we talk about these things on Loose Women that this programme would be the one.

“I like an adventure and it appeals to me.”

How old is Jane Moore?

Jane Moore is 62 years old and was born in Oxford on 17 May 1962. Her father was a maths professor at the University of Oxford and her mother was a teacher.

Her parents divorced when she was in school and she has previously told how she has not heard from her father since. She always wanted to be a journalist - studying journalism at the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education in Cardiff and training at the Solihull News before moving to the Birmingham Mail and the Birmingham Post.

At 22 she worked shifts on The People and then became launch news editor of the Daily Sport, but she quit within a month because of the absurd stories. She was then taken on as the editor of The Sun’s "Bizarre" showbusiness column before burning out after a year. After spells at other newspapers and as an estate agent, she eventually found herself back on The Sun - and has also guest-presented This Morning while regularly contributing to shows including Question Time, The Andrew Marr Show and BBC Breakfast.

Who is Jane Moore married to?

Jane married Gary Farrow, the former vice-president of communications at Sony Music Entertainment, at a star-studded bash at London's Claridges Hotel in May 2002 - with the best man being Sir Elton John. But in December 2022, Jane announced live on Loose Women that she and Gary, who now owns a PR agency, were separating after over a year of discussions around their relationship.

Speaking on the show, she said: "We've been processing it for about a year. So we're both quite private people.

“We had discussed it last year and it was going to happen last year, and then he fell and broke his leg.”

Jane went on to say they delayed their amicable split while she nursed Gary back to health.

Does Jane Moore have children?

Jane has daughters Ellie and Grace from a relationship prior to her marriage to Gary. She also became stepmother to Gary's daughter Lauren.

Asked about her role in I’m A Celebrity and relationship with the other campmates, Jane said she thought it would be very much centred around her maternal instincts.

She said: “I have been on this planet a long time and I will be the person who will try to help them out.

“My two daughters are really up for me doing it and my youngest one keeps telling me: ‘Mum, it is going to be amazing’. If there is someone young in there struggling, I know it will appeal to my maternal side.

“But cooking you will not find me putting myself forward for. I am not a good cook, I am rubbish. I know the food is going to taste pretty insipid too.”

Jane will be joined in the jungle by dancer Oti Mabuse, Corrie star Alan Halsall, Radio 1 DJ Dean McCullough, N-Dubz singer Tulisa Contostavlos, TV presenter and DJ Melvin Odoom, TV personality Coleen Rooney, former boxing champ Barry McGuigan, podcaster GK Barry and McFly star Danny Jones.