Coleen Rooney reveals she had no trouble settling into jungle life thanks to the humble job she had as a teenager

Coleen Rooney has revealed she didn't struggle at all settling into jungle life which she credits to the job she worked as a teenager before finding fame. 

The WAG, 38, made it to the final of this year's series where she finished in second place to McFly star Danny Jones. 

Asked how she coped with having no luxuries in camp, Coleen said it reminded her of when she used to clean apartments at Pontins in her younger days.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, she said: 'I have got luxuries in life but I'm no princess. I feel my campmates were surprised that I wasn't fazed by living outside. 

'I might not have camped that much but I used to clean the apartments at a Pontins holiday park when I was younger.'

She adds: 'Going to the dunny [camp lavatory] doesn't bother me, I've gone behind a tree before. I don't mind getting my hands dirty, I've got four boys, we've been in situations where we've got dirty. 

'We go to ponds and mud trails. None of that fazed me and if I had all of my lot there, I could have stayed there for weeks and weeks.'  

Indeed, Coleen took on many of the chores to make up for not looking after her sons. 'It's just my daily life to pick up after people, to just get on with it,' she said.

'If I don't do it myself it mightn't get done. It was hard to step back from not doing other people's. There were times when people took longer to do their chores. I was desperate to go and do that but we got punished for it.'

The first thing she did after coming out of the jungle was to FaceTime her husband. 'Wayne just said how proud he was,' she said. 'Obviously, in the letter he sent to me in camp, he said he's never missed me as much as he does now.

'I can understand that because we've not spoken. We've been apart for weeks and weeks on end. [Normally] we speak a number of times a day, and we FaceTime. To not have that communication, it's been tough.'

Wayne remained in the UK to manage his football team, Plymouth Argyle, in Devon, while their two eldest sons Kai, 15, and Klay, 11, also stayed home.

'It was harder for them to come out [out of] school. They're older, it's more serious. We took the decision to keep them in school.

'But, they did say they weren't going to school tomorrow because their mum was in the final. I don't know what school's going to say about that. Obviously, they haven't come all the way to Australia so maybe they do deserve a day off.

'The little ones, it's easier. They've brought work away with them.'

Wayne also told his wife that he had held a viewing party for the final in her honour for their closest family and friends at their £20million Cheshire mansion.

Now Coleen is back with her mother, father and two younger sons as they prepare to return to the UK to reunite with the rest of the family ahead of Christmas.

The mother-of-four planned Christmas and did all her shopping before she left so she could return safe in the knowledge that everything was ready.

In terms of the future, she says she wants to 'enjoy Christmas, which I'm really looking forward to, and then we start again in the new year when, in January, I will sit down with my team and see what I am going to do going forward'.

Given her spectacular success on I'm A Celebrity, ITV will be desperately hoping that it is part of her future plans.