I'm A Celeb's Coleen Rooney on smart reason why only her youngest boys will fly to Oz to see her
Coleen Rooney is set to make her very first appearance on I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! tonight when the show begins on ITV at 9pm. The star will take on some tough challenges along with her fellow castmates, and her family’s support from off-screen. As usual, the celebs won’t see any family members until they exit the show and meet their loved ones across the rope bridge.
Prior to flying over to Australia, the WAG opened up to The Mirror and revealed that only two of her four sons will be meeting her when she exits the show. Coleen is mum to Kai, 13, Klay, ten, Kit, seven, and Cass, six.
Coleen revealed: "My two youngest ones are coming over. They all had the option but the two older ones decided that they would stay at home to continue with school and football. I think I said when you come you’ll have to bring your work with you, and they would be missing some football tournaments, so they quickly changed their minds!
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“And also the fact that they don’t know when they get to see me. That was another big thing, is if I did last and stayed in close to the end, there’s not going to be any time spent with me so I explained that."
She added: "Obviously, I would have liked them all to come out but it makes sense in a way and they both chose a wise decision not to miss out on anything back home and as soon as the show’s over, I’m back straight away. So, it’s one of those things, I put it in their hands, they decided and I agree with it really. I think it was missing the football that really did it for them, they didn’t want to miss any tournaments."
Coleen went on to say that seeing them again will be a ‘magical moment’, and that it’s the longest she will ever have been away from them. She explained that’s the reason why it’s taken ‘so many years’ to agree to do the show. Despite wanting to make her family proud, Coleen went on to say she’s going into the jungle for her ‘not anyone else’.
Coleen knows she's likely to face questions from her fellow campmates about her feud with Rebekah Vardy. But Coleen says she won’t necessarily talk about the ordeal because she’s ‘dealt with it’.
