What May Coleen Rooney Do Next? Latest Odds

_{Will Coleen Rooney join Loose Women or launch a true crime podcast? (Image: PA Images / Alamy)}

Coleen Rooney made huge headlines when she signed up for this year's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!.

The TV personality is said to be the highest-paid contestant in the show's history, reportedly banking more than £1.5 million to appear on the programme, and fans were eager to see the real Coleen—the wife of former England footballer Wayne Rooney—in a stripped-back environment in the Australian jungle.

The star has also been in the headlines in recent years when she accused fellow WAG Rebekah Vardy—the wife of ex-England star Jamie Vardy—of leaking details of her private life to the press after she narrowed down a social media search to Rebekah's Instagram account.

Becky sued Coleen for libel, and the feud was dubbed "Wagatha Christie" by the media, but Coleen won the subsequent court case and claimed she had always "stuck to [her] truth." Afterwards, she made a documentary for Disney+ entitled Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story, and earlier this year she signed up for I'm A Celebrity.

It came as a huge surprise to many, as aside from the court case, Coleen—who has four sons, Kai, Klay, Kit, and Cass, with Wayne—has largely managed to keep her private life to herself. However, it's now thought the star might use her newfound reality TV fame as a springboard for other exciting projects.

A source told Closer magazine: "Coleen’s sacrificed a lot over the last few years, and while Wayne and the boys will still remain her number-one priority, she feels that it’s time to start doing more of what she wants again."

Coleen To Let Loose

Among her campmates in the jungle were Loose Women panellists Jane Moore and GK Barry.

Jane has since been eliminated from I'm A Celebrity, and her pal and show anchor Ruth Langsford jetted over to Australia to support her. During her time Down Under, Ruth appeared on the spin-off show I'm A Celebrity... Unpacked, on which she admitted it would be "absolutely fantastic" to have Coleen as a regular Loose Women panellist.

Speaking on the show, he said, "On Loose Women, we share our lives, warts and all. So actually the fact that we don't know Coleen very well—she's very private—maybe now she's felt comfortable enough to open up, and she's met Jane; they've become friends, so Coleen, please come on."

_{Coleen attended the screening of Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story. (Image: PA Images / Alamy)}

Coleen is just 4/5 to land a permanent panellist role on the popular ITV daytime show, but she could have another venture at the top of her priority list. 

Coleen's True Crime Podcast

Following her detective work on social media to rumble Rebekah, all eyes have been on Coleen in the jungle, and she has continued to be a super sleuth during her time in camp.

Earlier in the series, Maura Higgins and Reverend Richard Coles became late entrants on the show, and they started off in the "Jungle Junkyard" camp. They had to pretend to 10 original contestants in the main camp that they were living in squalor when, in fact, they had a more luxurious camp than their new co-stars.

However, Coleen sussed them out, and this has sparked speculation that she could go on to front a true crime podcast following her jungle stint.

She's in the right place for advice, as GK and Reverend Richard both have podcasts, and she is just 10/11 to host a podcast of any kind next. What's more, an insider recently told The Sun newspaper: "Coleen wants to do a podcast after IAC and is in talks about it.

"She wants to follow in the footsteps of the likes of Abbey Clancy, and producers reckon she's got exactly what it takes. Coleen recently appeared on Fearne Cotton's podcast, and she did that to test the reaction.

"She went down a storm, so it's only a matter of time before she launches her own after she gets back from Australia. Expect her to hit the airwaves in the new year."

Coleen to Corrie On

During her time in the jungle, Coleen has also honed her acting skills.

After she and Coronation Street actor Alan Halsall won 10 stars for camp in a gruesome Bushtucker Trial, the pair pretended to their campmates they had only won two.

They kept up their deception for the whole day until that evening's meal bag was delivered, when the campmates realised the sneaky pair had actually won 10 stars.

Beforehand, Coleen told Alan, "I’ll do my best acting skills, you can mark me out of 10!"

But Alan—who has played Tyrone Dobbs in Corrie since 1998—was left thoroughly impressed and suggested she could land a guest stint in the ITV soap. 

Halsall said, "I’ll be getting you a job in Coronation Street before you know it!"

What's more, among the 10 GCSEs Coleen earned at school, she was awarded an A* for Performing Arts. Coleen is 11/8 to land a Corrie cameo following her jungle stint, but she could also do something in the health and fitness game.

During her jungle stint, she has spoken about her daily squats routine, and she recently invested in the sports health business Applied Nutrition. It's 3/1 that Coleen launches her own YouTube fitness channel, which could even feature some boxing exercises.

Rooney's Next Fight

But Coleen could go one step further and get into the ring for a celebrity boxing bout (6/1).

On Wednesday night's I'm A Celebrity episode, ahead of competing for a place in the show's Celebrity Cyclone, Coleen said she is "always looking for a fight."

This has sparked speculation that she might try her hand at a celebrity boxing bout next, particularly as she has a family connection to the sport. Coleen's father, Tony McLoughlin, used to run a boxing club, and her husband Wayne is a huge fan of the sport. 

What's more, she is a 12/1 outsider to receive a damehood.

On Wednesday night's I'm A Celebrity, Coleen told of her interest in the Royal Family, saying, "I would like to experience a day in the life of a Royal.

"There are a lot of things you don't get to know about the Royal Family. I'd like to see how they operate day-to-day, week-to-week."

When told she was "practically" a royal already, she laughed and replied, "I'm not there yet."

Coleen has previously raised awareness of the rare genetic disorder Rett syndrome, which her late sister Rosie, who died in 2013 at age 14, had, alongside Sir Trevor McDonald on a 2006 episode of his show, Tonight with Trevor McDonald.

And she is also a patron of the Liverpool-based Alder Hey Children's Charity. While a damehood may be a tall order, Coleen could look to another reality TV show for her next project.

Offers are likely to come in from the likes of Celebrity Traitors (2/1)—which could be perfect, given her detective skills—Strictly Come Dancing (4/1), Dancing On Ice (8/1), and Celebrity Big Brother (10/1).