I'm A Celeb's Coleen Rooney makes heartbreaking admission about sons to campmates
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! campmates and viewers watching at home have learned a lot about Coleen Rooney during her time so far in the jungle. In a chat around the campfire on Tuesday, December 3, she heartbreakingly revealed the toll that fame has taken on her and her famous husband Wayne’s family.
Coleen has previously revealed Wayne’s more romantic side, with him writing her poems on hotel stationery and the less-than-romantic location of his marriage proposal. She has also chatted about what it was like to be a 16-year-old schoolgirl whose photo was suddenly in the newspapers after Wayne became a well-known young footballer.
She and her fellow campmates were discussing the point at which they knew they were famous, and Coleen revealed that the hardest part of being recognised was the impact it had on her and Wayne’s four children: Kai, 15; Klay, 11; Kit, eight, and Cass, six.
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“That’s the thing with kids I think, it’s hard to go on days out,” she said. “Kai told Wayne to stop coming to football games, when he played grassroots tournaments and stuff because he used to get swarmed and he couldn’t even watch the game.”
“How do you say to all of these kids, ‘Go away, I’m watching my son?’ Adults it’s different, you could speak to them, so Kai just said, ‘Oh, Dad, there’s no point you coming because you don’t even watch me play anyway,’ which is sad but it can’t be helped. At the same time, the fans help you along the way and get you where you are.”
Alan Halsall, who has been on Coronation Street for more than two decades, agreed with Coleen that fame is difficult when you have a family. “I think the only time I’ve found it difficult really recently is when I’ve become a father, it’s hard then.”
Reverend Richard Coles, who was part of the pop duo The Communards with Jimmy Somerville in the 1980s, had a funnier take on life as a famous person. “The big thing for us came when we had Don’t Leave Me This Way, and it was number one for weeks and weeks, and I remember we were playing in Ireland and we were booked into a sports stadium – we came on stage and there was this barrage of knickers! All these girls threw their knickers!”
He added: “Never in the history of recorded sound did a girl throw her knickers at a band to less effect than to The Communards. I think Jimmy made a scrunchie out of a pair of them and that was it.”
