Coleen Rooney with have full support from friend and football legend Ally McCoist in I’m A Celebrity as they’re both set to appear in the jungle.
Ally, 62, was said to have cheered on Coleen, 38, during the Wagatha Christie trial with Rebekah Vardy, who was booted out early in the 2017 series.
And as Coleen is also thought to be getting the ‘ultimate revenge’ by signing up, she will have the backing of Ally in her corner.
At the time of the explosive legal battle, Ally waded into the drama and said he’d ‘love to be a fly on the wall’ in Rebekah’s Leicester City player husband Jamie’s dressing room.
Speaking on his talkSPORT breakfast show at the time, Ally said: ‘If they’re men at all, they’ll get right into him. You’d love to be a fly on the wall in that dressing room.’
Coleen Rooney, 38, with have full support from friend and football legend Ally McCoist, 62, in I’m A Celebrity as they’re both set to appear in the jungle (pictured in June)
Ally (pictured) was said to have cheered on Coleen during the Wagatha Christie trial with Rebekah Vardy , who was booted out early in the 2017 series
Ally – who is also an outspoken support of Coleen’s husband Wayne Rooney – is reportedly high up on Ant and Dec‘s radar to appear in the show this year despite him turning down the opportunity to do the show twice before.
TV presenters Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly are desperate to get the Scottish pundit to star in this year’s lineup, according to The Mirror.
Ally was previously in talks to go in the jungle in 2019 and 2022 but backed out due to his fear of cockroaches.
Explaining why he turned the show down before, the former footballer said: ‘I’m not a fan of cockroaches.
‘The bit where you jump out of the helicopter or plane at the start – I’d like to do that. But then the rest is downhill.
‘You don’t really know until you’re there, but I actually think being in the coffin with the rats and snakes – from where I’m sitting right now – I don’t think that would bother me that much.’
An ITV Spokesperson said: ‘Any names suggested for I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! are speculation.’
Coleen has reportedly secured a fee that exceeds Nigel Farage‘s £1.5million from last year.
And as Coleen is also thought to be getting the ‘ultimate revenge’ by signing up, she will have the backing of Ally in her corner (pictured last week)
Ally is also an outspoken support of Coleen’s husband Wayne Rooney (pictured)
At the time of the explosive legal battle, Ally waded into the drama and said he’d ‘love to be a fly on the wall’ in Rebekah’s Leicester City player husband Jamie’s dressing room (Rebekah and Jamie pictured)
TV presenters Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly are desperate to get the Scottish pundit to star in this year’s lineup
Coleen has reportedly secured a fee that exceeds Nigel Farage ‘s £1.5million from last year
It comes as Rebekah was this week ordered to pay Coleen another £100,000 after losing their legal costs battle in the so-called Wagatha Christie case.
According to The Sun on Sunday, Coleen is expected to fly out in November to take part in the show which her four boys are said to be huge fans of
A source said: ‘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.’
The pair became the centre of a huge storm back in 2019 when Coleen accused Rebekah of leaking stories about her to the press.
Rebekah then went on to sue Coleen for libel over the claim, but it was Coleen who triumphed with a judge declaring in 2022 that her claim was ‘substantially true’.
Rebekah was later instructed to pay 90 per cent of 38-year-old Coleen’s fees, with an initial payment of £800,000, but has been challenging the claimed £1.8million costs.
Rebekah Vardy pictured on the 2017 series of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here
Hosts Ant and Dec on series 23 of the hit reality show last year
At the end of the latest hearing, which began last week, senior costs judge Andrew Gordon-Saker has now told Rebekah to pay an extra £100,000 within 21 days.
He said: ‘I think there is some scope for a further payment on account so the defendant (Mrs Rooney) is not kept out of her costs, and I think that should be no more than £100,000.’
The hearing, which neither woman attended, dealt with several preliminary issues before a full ‘line-by-line’ assessment of costs takes place at a later date, which will decide the overall amount of money to be paid.
Judge Gordon-Saker said this could take place in early 2025, but added: ‘The parties need to get on with this and put it behind them.’
He said: ‘Realistically, it (the line-by-line assessment) is probably going to be next year, hopefully early next year.’
In 2019, Coleen 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.
These covered her travelling to Mexico for a ‘gender selection’ procedure, plans to return to TV and the basement flooding at her home.
After the high-profile trial, Mrs Justice Steyn ruled in Coleen’s favour in July 2022, finding the post was ‘substantially true’.
Wayne and Coleen Rooney, pictured leaving the Royal Courts of Justice in London in May 2022, have been given another boost by this week’s High Court ruling
Rebekah, pictured with husband Jamie outside the Royal Courts of Justice in May 2022, was accused of sharing private information about Coleen Rooney with the Sun newspaper
The judge said that it was ‘likely’ that Rebekah’s agent Caroline Watt had passed information to the newspaper. and that the Leicester star’s wife ‘knew of and condoned this behaviour’.
At the latest hearing, Rebekah’s representative Jamie Carpenter KC said in written submissions that Coleen’s claimed legal bill ran to £1,833,906.89, which was more than three times her ‘agreed costs budget of £540,779.07’.
He said the bill was ‘drawn without sufficient care’ and had ‘a ‘kitchen sink’ approach’, and included ‘over £120,000 of costs to which Mrs Rooney has no entitlement’.
But Robin Dunne, for Coleen, said in his written submissions that Mrs Vardy had shown ‘deplorable conduct’ in the case and that costs could have been lower if ‘she conducted this litigation appropriately’.
He added: ‘It sits ill in Mrs Vardy’s mouth to now claim that Mrs Rooney’s costs, a great deal of which were caused directly by her conduct, are unreasonable.’
MailOnline has contacted ITV and Coleen Rooney’s representatives for comment.
