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Coleen Rooney, I’m a Celebrity and the trouble with ‘jungle washing’

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Gasp! Coleen Rooney is doing I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!. Hardly a shock. It was written in the ellipsis. Rooney is famous for those three delicious dots, the ones that defined her social media post from October 2019 when she dramatically revealed the identity of her WAG nemesis with, “It’s … Rebekah Vardy’s account.” A High Court libel case (aka Wagatha Christie) ensued, Rooney triumphed, and media deals flooded in, including an alleged £3 million payday for her Disney+ post-trial series Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story.

And so it makes strangely satisfying graphological sense to know that the woman behind “It’s …” is going to appear on “I’m a Celebrity …” And yet the more fundamental,

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