Jane Moore has revealed that people should underestimate Coleen Rooney ‘at their peril’ as she gave her thoughts on her I’m A Celebrity campmates.

The Loose Women presenter, 62, was the first star voted out of the jungle on Friday and will now be living in luxury in a H๏τel until the final when the winner is crowned.

Speaking about living with Coleen, Jane said: ‘She’s quiet, she’s quite reserved, but underestimate her at your peril. She’s the absolute hub of the Rooney household. She runs it like a well-oiled machine.

‘I think elements of Col – as I now call her, because we’re on that level – that the public have seen have been quite cartoonish. You know, Wagatha Christie, footballer’s wife, whatever.

‘I think for her to go into something and show herself and how strong she is and how lovely she is… I was really happy to see that.’

Jane also named radio DJ Melvin Odoom as the campmate she’d most like to see make it to the final.

Jane Moore has revealed people should underestimate Coleen Rooney ‘at their peril’ as she gave her thoughts on her I’m A Celebrity campmates

Jane said: ‘I think for her to go into something and show herself and how strong she is and how lovely she is… I was really happy to see that’

The journalist described Melvin as ‘very under the radar’ but is a ‘grafter’ who does lots of work in the camp. 

She added that he is kind and caring and hopes audiences notice him enough to get him to the final. 

Jane was embroiled in a row over ‘ageism’ and ‘Sєxism’ in the jungle after she was tasked with the chore of doing the camp’s washing up and accused former boxing champion, Barry McGuigan, and the McFly frontman, Danny Jones, of being ageist and Sєxist for giving her the role because she was an older woman.

Upon her exit she told hosts Ant and Dec: ‘I had three jobs before then, I worked like a dog and then they gave me the washing up so I wasn’t pleased about that. I did a lot down there but hard work doesn’t pay off as I’m the first one out, people don’t notice hard work’.

In a warning to the remaining campmates, she said: ‘The more people get voted off, it will get apparent who isn’t doing that much. 

‘I would like to see the quiet hard workers win, there’s a lot of showmen in there. I want Coleen [Rooney] or Melvin [Odoom] to win, they’re not flamboyant.’

Speaking about her time in the jungle she said: ‘I have lived it and it’s just such a weird and magical experience. People always say it’s the best experience of your life, wouldn’t say that with the rain. Never been so soaked in my life, constantly’. 

‘At least there’s no more washing up, I’m never washing up again. I enjoyed getting to know the other and ask them questions. We’ve all got each other’s back. 

Jane also named radio DJ Melvin Odoom as the campmate she’d most like to see make it to the final

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‘Them getting to know me was great too, because I’m a journalist they were initially like, “hang on what’s this going to be like?”‘.

‘A lot of them said they talked about things with me they haven’t for years and they felt better for it.’

Jane was greeted off the I’m A Celebrity bridge by her daughters Ellie, 32, and Grace, 22, whom she shares with her ex-husband of 22 years, Gary Farrow. 

She later told Sam Thompson on spin-off show Unpacked: ‘I’m not going to sugar coat it I’m really disappointed to be first out because I hoped that people would see how hard I worked and how integral I was to the camp’.

‘I would have liked to have been second or third, I knew I wasn’t going to make it the whole way. But I can’t say that anyone deserved to be out before me. My camp bestie was Danny’

Jane continued: ‘we discussed at one point that maybe we were all getting on too well because viewers like it when there’s drama, but we couldn’t do it.

‘I think you need to ask Melvin if Dean was pulling his weight. There are the show people in the camp, that are providing the entertainment, maybe people that are providing good TV. There are hard workers that allow them to be flamboyant.’