Coleen Rooney will cope well on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! if she simply remains herself, former contestant Scarlette Douglas has claimed.
With a rumoured £1.5million sum to go into the jungle, the 38-year-old, who is married to Wayne Rooney, is this year’s highest paid of the participants.
Quizzed on whether she believes Coleen is the right person for the fee, Scarlette believes the mother-of-four will be “good at monitoring herself”.
She told Reach PLC, via Sky Vegas: “Coleen Rooney is already having to deal with quite a lot in the limelight.
“She’s been on television before, she knows how it works. She has been a celebrity for quite a while now, so she’ll be very good at monitoring herself.”
In a warning to Coleen and the contestants however, she continued: “You’ve got to be careful, because when you’re in the jungle, you’re being filmed 24/7.
“You can’t keep up appearances, and if you try to, you’re going to get found out quickly.”
The A Place In The Sun presenter went on to say she is a fan of Coleen as “she’s very much herself”, adding: “What you see is what you get.
“As long as she can be herself in there, she’ll be fine. She’ll do really well, and she’ll love to immerse herself in the experience of it.”
Additionally, Scarlette believes N-Dubz star Tulisa Contostavlos and rumoured latecomer Richard Reverend Coles will be good contenders.
“With Richard Coles [supposedly] coming in later, I would say [he could do well], because I feel like he’s had such an extravagant life and everything that he has been through – he could pretty much manage anything that is thrown at him,” she shared.
“I always think when women go in, we feel like we have something to prove, because we want to show that we are strong, we can do it, and we can do it as well as the guys, if not better!
“There’s always a really good chance with women. Tulisa will do well because she seems strong, and I don’t think she is messing with anyone.
“I feel like she’s going to prove to the nation that she can do this.”
Coleen and Tulisa will enter the jungle alongside a host of other famous faces that includes; Loose Women’s Jane Moore, McFly’s Danny Jones, Coronation Street’s Alan Halsall, TikTok star GK Barry and former Strictly Come Dancing professional Oti Mabuse.
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! kicks off tonight at 9pm on ITV and ITVX.