ITV I'm A Celebrity star says Coleen Rooney's 'crafty' as she's backed for 2024 series win

A former I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! star has revealed they're rooting for 'crafty' Coleen Rooney as she prepares to enter the jungle this year.

The TV personality and WAG is among the 10 famous faces heading Down Under to take part in the hit ITV reality show, hosted by Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly, this year and is already being back to win by her fans.

Those also set to join Coleen in the outback for the 2024 run of the popular progeamme are Coronation Street star Alan Halsall, TikTok and Loose Women star GK Barry, N-Dubz singer Tulisa, McFly's Danny Jones and Dancing on Ice judge Oti Mabuse.

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Also making up this year's line-up are BBC Radio 1 DJ Melvin Odoom, Loose Women panellist and journalist Jane Moore, former boxer Barry McGuigan and Radio presenter Dean McCullough.

After the line-up was announced, Coleen, who is married to former Manchester United and England star Wayne Rooney, issued a message on Instagram to share her reasons for taking part on the show. She said: "They've asked me for so many years now. I've always said no and put it off because the kids have been young and I've had quite a lot on.

"But this year, I thought, I quite fancy doing it. I would like to experience something different, do something for myself, meet new people. I'm looking forward to doing the trials."

Speaking of the trials, the mum-of-four - who shares sons Kai, Kit, Klay and Cass with football manager Wayne - set the record straight on reports she would be exempt from the Bushtucker trials. She said: "There's been a lot of news saying I can't do trials because of certain illnesses, but I can confirm I can do every trial so I'm not excluded for any. That was just a load of rubbish."

And backing Coleen is Tony Bellew, the former boxer who made it to the final of I'm A Celeb's 2023 series with MP Nigel Farage, This Morning presenter Josie Gibson and eventual winner, reality star Sam Thompson.

Ahead of ITV officially confirming the I'm A Celeb 2024 line-up, he told bestoffshoresportsbooks.org: "I saw Coleen recently. If she's to go in, she has obviously got my best wishes and I'm wishing her all the very best. We've just got to wait now and see where she's at and how she does. She's a crafty girl. She's a proper Scouser and everyone should be behind her from my city and not just from my city, from everywhere, because she's one of the best people you could wish to know.

"A brilliant mother. Our kids both play in academies so we come across each other often. She's always there supporting the kids on the sidelines. She's done a brilliant job, fantastic mother, a brilliant person. And she's created a lovely family. I’m rooting for her 100%."