COLEEN Rooney has revealed what the first thing her husband Wayne Rooney said to her when she left the jungle as runner-up.
Mum-of-four Coleen came in second place on the ITV reality show – falling just shy of being crowned the champion to McFly singer Danny Jones.
Wayne made sure Coleen knew how proud he was of her on the phone[/caption]
And the moment she left the camp, the first person she called was her footballer husband, Wayne.
Coleen said that Wayne told her how proud he was of her, as they enjoyed their first phone call after not speaking for weeks while Coleen tackled the jungle.
She added: “I spoke to him as soon as I got in the car.
“Obviously once you get out it’s all chaotic. Obviously my mum, dad and the two younger kids were there, then Wayne and my two older ones at home. It was harder for them to come out of school.
“They’re older, it’s more serious. So we took the decision to keep them in school. The little ones, obviously it’s easier. They’ve brought work away with them.”
Coleen continued: “As soon as I came out I phoned home. They’ve all had a gathering in the house and watched it together. I have friends and family and the kids.
“They did say they weren’t going to school tomorrow because the mum was in the final. I don’t know what school’s going to say about that but, you know, obviously they haven’t come all the way to Australia so maybe they do deserve a day off.
“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.
“Obviously if anything drastic happens I would like to think they would have told me. But not keeping up to date on the kids’ school and football… I’m so involved in all that back home. That was hard.”
I’m A Celeb runner-up Coleen also says she considered quitting in the first week as she sobbed over her kids in camp.
In scenes not shown on TV, she cried when looking at her luxury item – a pillow with a picture of her four sons and footie legend husband Wayne.
But her strong-minded nature set in and helped her battle through to Sunday’s final, when she lost out to McFly‘s Danny Jones by just over ten per cent of the 10million votes cast.
Coleen, 38, said yesterday: “In that first week, I did wake up one morning and obviously I’d been given the pillow that I was sleeping on.
“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.”
She added: “I’m quite strong-minded.
“Even though I’m quiet, I battle through things.
“I just think, ‘Come on Coleen, you’ve said you’ll do it, so just do it’. I do snap myself out of things really quickly.”
Coleen was in floods of tears again when her two youngest lads, eight-year-old Kit and Cass, six, surprised her in the Aussie camp last week with her mum Colette McLoughlin, 62.
But Plymouth Argyle boss Wayne was cheering her on from home amid his hectic fixture list, while her eldest lads – Kai, 15, and Klay, 11 – also stayed in Cheshire.
