Coleen Rooney has revealed that her husband Wayne expressed his pride in her during their first phone call after she left the I’m a Celebrity camp.
The 38-year-old media personality had an emotional conversation with her partner for the first time in weeks after braving the jungle.
She had previously received a letter from Wayne, 39, in which he confessed to missing her more than ever during their 16-year marriage. Coleen came second in the competition, narrowly losing out to McFly’s Danny Jones.
Speaking to reporters after her exit, Coleen said: “Wayne just said how proud he was. In the letter I got he said he’s never missed me as much – and I can understand that because we’ve not spoke. We’ve been apart for weeks and weeks on end, but we speak a number of times a day, we FaceTime. So to not have that communication, it’s been tough.”
Wayne, currently manager of Plymouth Argyle, was the first person Coleen rang after the programme ended. During the ITV show, she had expressed her sadness at missing Wayne, father to their four children, reports the Mirror.
The WAG also said she considered quitting in the first week as she sobbed over her kids in camp. But Coleen, from Liverpool, overcame her struggle to almost clinch victory.
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The mum lost out to Danny, 38, by just over ten per cent of the 10million votes cast. Recalling her challenge, the strong-willed media personality said: “In that first week, I did wake up one morning and obviously I’d been given the pillow that I was sleeping on.”
She revealed: “I looked and I’d seen Wayne and the kids, and I had a little cry and thought, ‘I don’t know whether I can go all this way’. And that was only week one.
“But then I soon snapped out of it and went and done the washing up, and collected the wood and did whatever I had to do and it was fine. I got on with it.”
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