Coleen Rooney will take part in this year’s I’m A Celebrity after landing the biggest deal in the show’s history.
The 38-year-old is understood to have secured a fee that exceeds Nigel Farage‘s £1.5million from last year.
It is hoped that Coleen will spill the beans on her epic fallout with Rebekah Vardy in the so-called Wagatha Christie case when she appears on the reality show.
Coleen is also thought to be getting the ‘ultimate revenge’ by signing up after Rebekah was booted out early in the 2017 series.
A source told The Sun on Sunday: ‘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.’
Coleen Rooney will take part in this year’s I’m A Celebrity landing the biggest deal in the show’s history
Wayne and Coleen Rooney pictured with their four children
Rebekah Vardy pictured on the 2017 series of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here
Coleen Rooney and Wayne Rooney leave the Royal Courts of Justice in May 2022
Coleen is expected to fly out in November to take part in the show which her four boys are understood 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 pair became the centre of a huge storm back in 2019 when Coleen accused Rebekah of leaking stories about her.
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.
At the end of the latest hearing, which began on Monday, senior costs judge Andrew Gordon-Saker has now told Rebekah to pay an extra £100,000 within 21 days.
Hosts Ant and Dec on series 23 of the hit reality show last year
Coleen Rooney attends Nordoff Robbins’ Legends of Football at JW Marriott Grosvenor House on October 7
Coleen Rooney will take part in this year’s I’m A Celebrity landing the biggest deal in the show’s history
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 Vardy, 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
Coleen Rooney is pictured here with her husband Wayne, former England and Manchester United striker, at Nordoff Robbins’ Legends of Football event in London on Monday
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’.
Rebekah, 42, piciured here at Leicester City’s King Power Stadium in May 2022, was later ordered to pay 90 per cent of 38-year-old Coleen’s fees, with an initial payment of £800,000
Rebekah Vardy seen outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London in May 2022, has now been ordered to pay Coleen Rooney another £100,000 in their ‘ Wagatha Christie ‘ libel battle
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.’
