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I’m A Celebrity 2024 line-up announced, with Coleen Rooney and Alan Halsall entering the jungle

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Daisy Jackson - 12th November 2024

The full line-up for I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here 2024 has just been announced, with a host of famous faces heading into the jungle.

The hugely popular reality TV show will see the celebrity campmates thrown into the Australian wilderness, ready to take on a series of Bushtucker Trials and other challenges.

This year’s line-up includes Coleen Rooney, Corrie’s Alan Halsall, Strictly star Oti Mabuse and former boxing champion Barry McGuigan.

There are also a few big names from the music industry, social media stars, and daytime TV favourites joining the I’m A Celebrity line-up for 2024.

Last year, the hit show – presented by Ant and Dec – was the biggest entertainment series on any channel, with just under 11 million viewers.

This year’s is sure to bring in similar numbers with its star-studded cast.

Coleen Rooney is arguably the biggest name on this year’s I’m A Celebrity line-up (especially once you factor in the rumours that Rebekah Vardy may be added as a surprise campmate later in the series…)

Coleen said that the hardest part of heading into the jungle will be being away from her husband, footballer Wayne Rooney, and their four sons.

She said: “Wayne is supportive. He did say, ‘You know you are going to be on camera 24/7?’ but I said, ‘Yeah that’s the show!’. He is fine with it all.”

“I haven’t spoken about it with my younger two boys as not many know, but my eldest son told me: ‘Yeah go for it’.

“My second one was a bit more emotional. He thought about me being away for a long length of time, but hopefully that will pass. My parents are happy too that I’m doing something for me.”

Coronation Street legend Alan Halsall, who has played Tyrone Dobbs since 1998, is also joining this year’s camp, saying that he’ll miss being on Corrie for a bit (and golf) but hopes people will get to know him rather than his character.

As for phobias, he said: “I’m not scared of anything at home but if you were to put ten snakes on my head, I don’t know how I would feel about that as clearly I’ve never been in that situation before!”

Strictly Come Dancing pro Oti Mabuse will be one of the famous faces around the campfire this autumn – and she’s foolishly admitted she’s petrified of snakes, so will inevitably be faced with a bucket of them on arrival. Great telly.

She said: “I’d like to think I will be a comfort mum in camp. I can listen to stories, motivate and hopefully entertain everyone with a bit of dancing. I hope to teach everyone a few moves. We will create
our own talent show in the jungle!”

McFly star Danny Jones said that he hopes he doesn’t ‘come home with new phobias’ after his stint in the jungle.

Speak of his prep for I’m A Celebrity, he said: “I’d love to have my guitar… to be without it is going to be a killer.

“I’ve stopped drinking caffeine. I’ve lowered my calories a little bit. It’s going alright. I felt the hunger
for a few days. It’s not going to be anything like the rice and beans!”

Loose Women’s Jane Moore sounds like she’s going to have a horrible time with the Bushtucker Trials – she said: “I’m not sure how I will feel when faced with Australian creepy crawlies, as they are so much bigger and I’m not fond of cold water either – so any of the water Trials I would not really want to do.”

Tulisa Contostavlos of N-Dubz fame said: “I am like Frodo Baggins on an unexpected journey. I feel really adventurous this year and the place I am now in, I want to do things that take me out of my comfort zone.

“I have always said I wouldn’t do this show in the past, as there are things that have terrified me. But the person I am now, I want to throw caution to the wind.”

GK Barry will be swapping out podcasts for the jungle, saying that she’s an Ant & Dec super fan.

“I can’t wait to meet them in Australia in the jungle. I am also excited to meet everyone on the programme, as the cast is always so amazing.”

Radio 1 DJ Dean McCullough is another one who is apparently scared of everything, saying: “The
more I think about being put in the ground with 50 snakes or getting those green fly things that bite poured over me – well there’s just no point thinking about it, as otherwise I won’t get on the plane!

“When Ant & Dec say things like, ‘We are going to suspend you off the side of that cliff’, you know it is not going to be a fun day out. It’s no Alton Towers – it will be torturous.

“I made the mistake of watching episode one from last year and I nearly passed out watching it. I had to turn it off. And I hate cockroaches. There was a cockroach in a hostel I stayed in once and I checked out during the middle of the night, as the thought of it – urgh, even talking about it now gives me the chills.”

TV presenter and DJ Melvin Odoom said snoring is his biggest fear and added of his friend Marvin Humes (a previous I’m A Celebrity star): “I want to look like Marvin did last year when he looked sick in the shower!”

Boxing champion Barry McGuigan said his role might fall into the category of referee: “I acted as a referee and appeaser in Hell’s Kitchen. But this is different. A whole different set of circumstances. It’ll be a challenge.

“I would imagine I’ll be one of the elders and you can look at that in a calming down way. I might get irritated. I really don’t know.”

I’m A Celebrity will return to the air on Sunday 17 November 17.

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