I'm a Celeb star Coleen Rooney’s mum Colette has opened up about her TV reunion with her daughter.
The I’m A Celeb star’s meeting with her two boys Kit, eight, and Cass, six, aired on Friday night.
“As I held her, one of the things she said to me was ‘mum, have I been boring?’” Colette says. “It broke my heart hearing that but I said, ‘no, you've been yourself and that’s all that matters.”
Colette opened up to the Mirror's Tom Bryant as part of a wide-ranging interview ahead of the final.
She said this humble attitude summed her daughter up.
“She is obviously thinking about what people are thinking, but she needn’t worry,” she says. “If she went in shouting and being loud, that wouldn’t be her. We've seen the true Coleen.”
After so long apart, Colette was eager to find out on her camp visit just how Coleen was doing in the jungle. But she was left under no illusions just how hard the experience had been.
“She said that she didn’t want me to go, and I said ‘come home now, come home.’” Colette explains. “But then she calmed down, and I asked her: ‘how is it?’
"She said that she had a headache for the first few days because she was getting no sugar, and must have been detoxing, but then she said how hard it had been.”
As viewers saw, the arrival of her boys lifted her spirits tremendously. And in the minutes before seeing their mum, they were practically bubbling over with excitement.
“They keep asking: ‘Is she here, really?’ They kept thinking she was going to jump out from behind a bush any minute,” she says.
“We kept saying to them 'five more minutes and you'll see your mum again'. They just couldn't wait. It was so lovely.”
When the moment came, it brought a tear to Colette’s eye. “I heard almost a squeal of a cry from her, and my heart just lifted when I saw her,” she says.
“It was wonderful seeing the boys in her arms, and they were so excited.” Soon the boys were having a VIP tour of camp from their mum.
“They really wanted to see the dunny and the beds, and were asking endless questions,” Colette laughs.
“They were obsessed. Coming away was hard but we told them it won’t be long before you see your mum again, and they accepted that, although Cass got quite emotional at the end.”
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