Coleen Rooney gave a rare insight into her 16-year marriage with husband Wayne, admitting he has ‘made mistakes’ on Thursday’s I’m A Celebrity.

The WAG, 38, spoke about going against the public, who had urged her to divorce the footballer, 39, after his infidelities’ emerged.

Coleen confided in campmate Oti Mabuse why she and Wayne have remained together and said while ‘it has been difficult, we’re happy now, after all those years… we’re a team.’

The conversation turned to their turbulent marriage when talking about Wayne’s footballing career.

Coleen said: ‘All he wanted to do was play football, he struggled with the fame side of it, he hated that. If he could’ve just played football and had none of the fame I think he would’ve been happier within life.’

‘He’s made mistakes along the way, but from 16, obviously you’re going to, that’s life.’

Explaining they got married young at 22, and engaged at 17/18, Coleen admitted because of that, ‘We felt older, because we had to grow up quick, because we were living in the public eye.’

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Coleen Rooney gave a rare insight into her 16-year marriage with husband Wayne, admitting he has ‘made mistakes’ on Thursday’s I’m A Celebrity

The WAG, 38, spoke about going against the public, who had urged her to divorce the footballer after his infidelities’ emerged

A look back at Coleen and Wayne Rooney’s relationship over the years

‘Since the first mistake he’s made, that’s been in the public, people have not forgiven. When things have happened the public have wanted it to just go oh, split, you know, that’s it, split them up. But the fact is, there’s always been love still there.’

Coleen and Wayne tied the knot in a romantic ceremony in Italy in 2008, with the big day said to have cost an estimated £5m.

Before they married in a stunning ceremony in the village of Portofino on the Italian Riviera in 2008, Wayne admitted sleeping with prostitutes after being caught on CCTV at a backstreet Liverpool brothel.

One was a 48-year-old grandmother known as ‘Auld Slapper’ who wore a rubber catsuit.

Then came his threesome with two more, Helen Wood and Jenny Thompson, at The Lowry Hotel in Manchester in 2010.

In 2017, Wayne was caught driving Cheshire-based estate agent Laura Simpson’s car while over the drink-drive limit. But Coleen has stood by him through all of it.

‘It has been difficult, but we’re happy now, after all those years… we’re a team,’ she said.

Speaking to GK Barry later on, she revealed: ‘Wayne’s always wrote me poems.’ Shocked, GK asked: ‘Wayne Rooney?’

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Coleen confided in campmate Oti Mabuse why she and Wayne have remained together and said while ‘it has been difficult but we’re happy now, after all those years… we’re a team’

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In 2017, Wayne was caught driving Cheshire-based estate agent Laura Simpson’s car while over the drink-drive limit. But Coleen has stood by him through all of it

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The couple have been married 16 years have four sons; Kai, 15, and Klay, 11, Kit, eight and Cass, six

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Speaking to GK Barry later on, she revealed: ‘Wayne’s always wrote me poems.’ Shocked, GK asked: ‘Wayne Rooney?’

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Coleen said: ‘You know the hotel pads? He was always writing a little poem.’ GK joked: ‘Well you might have one coming up: Roses are red, jungle is green, you’re my love, Coleen’

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Wayne and Coleen have been together since they were teenagers (pictured together in 2003)

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Due to his football commitments, Wayne will not be jetting out to Australia to greet Coleen when she leaves the camp over its iconic bridge

Coleen said: ‘You know the hotel pads? He was always writing a little poem and putting it in his bag and he’d give it to me when we got home.’

‘They’re nice to keep but I can’t remember the last time he gave me one…’

GK joked: ‘Well you might have one coming up: Roses are red, jungle is green, you’re my love, Coleen.’

Reflecting in the Bush Telegraph, Coleen said: ‘He is romantic in ways, we’re not the lovey dovey couple in public but little things like that I think it keeps the relationship alive and it’s special when someone’s done something just for you, and the words mean something.’

Due to his football commitments, Wayne will not be jetting out to Australia to greet Coleen when she leaves the camp over its iconic bridge.

Instead, that duty will fall to the couple’s youngest sons, Kit, eight, and Cass, six.

And the reason her elder sons Kai, 15, and 11-year-old Klay won’t make it? They don’t want to miss football, she says.

Before going into the jungle, Coleen admitted the couple are already distanced – and ‘barely see each other’ – as he juggles his new job as Plymouth Argylle with family life.

Since Wayne started managing Championship football side Plymouth Argyle in May, Coleen said their ‘time together is limited’ and they largely only see each other on Sundays.

Speaking to The Mail on Sunday after flying to Australia last week, Coleen described the toll the 260-mile distance between them is taking, with Wayne living most of the week in Salcombe, Devon – a five-hour drive from the family’s mansion in Cheshire.

But she said that just before leaving for her stint in the jungle, they managed to enjoy a ‘nice family day’ last weekend, having dinner together and attending their 11-year-old son Klay’s football tournament.

‘Wayne comes back once a week, sometimes twice, depending on the fixtures,’ Coleen explained.

‘Usually, he has Sunday off so he might come home. What’s good about the championship is that a lot of games are closer to me, closer to home, up in the North.

‘So he’ll come home on a Saturday evening and spend Sunday with us, depending on what the boys have got on.

‘Time together is limited, more so than ever now because of the travelling and stuff.’