THE Sun’s columnist Jane Moore last night told of her close friendship with Coleen Rooney — and how she dubbed the Wag “the Queen of Clean”.

Jane was sent packing by the public in Friday’s first eviction from ITV1’s I’m A Celebrity.

Sun Columnist Jane was sent packing by the public in Friday’s first eviction from ITV1’s I’m A CelebrityCredit: Australia Media

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Jane reveals all on her close friendship with Coleen Rooney, who she dubbed ‘the Queen of Clean’Credit: Rex

Jane was met by daughter Grace after being evictedCredit: Rex
But she revealed how she and Coleen unexpectedly bonded over the 15 days they were together in the jungle.

Our columnist also spoke of her medical drama after finding a blood-sucking leech attached to one of her boobs.

In an exclusive interview in Oz, hours after she left the jungle, Jane, 62, said of Coleen, 38: “We ended up being quite close and having a lot of good chats.

“She loves cleaning. She is the Queen of Clean. We were saying she needs her own TV show — Clean With Coleen . . .  whatever play on words you can come up with. She’s a real grafter.

“She really got on with the jobs in hand around the camp, without fanfare.”

Jane said Coleen confided in her that she had wanted to become a journalist — and that she’d then urged Coleen to join her on ITV1’s Loose Women panel.

She said: “I have suggested to her that she would make a very good Loose Woman. I said, ‘No pressure, but you could come on with me and GK (Barry) and Christine Lampard and I think you’d have a fantastic time, and I think you’d be very good.’

“I said, ‘So I’m just going to leave that with you.’ She just sort of nodded and smiled, so we’ll see.”

Before Jane was axed, campmates spoke emotionally about their jungle experience and their fellow celebs.

Coleen, wife of football legend Wayne Rooney, said Jane “scared” her when they met at the start of the series — because she is a journalist

But in a heartwarming moment, she added: “I feel like we’ve bonded more and more as time’s gone on.”

Jane said she “totally gets” why Coleen was “nervous to be in the jungle for 15 days, 24/7 with a journalist”.

She said she was “very mindful” of it — so much so that she opted not to choose Coleen as her partner for the race into camp on the launch show. But their friendship eventually began to develop in camp and they formed a connection.

Ironically, despite trepidation towards journalists, Coleen told Jane she actually fancied it as a career at one point.

Jane said: “I said to her, ‘What would you have done if you hadn’t ended up marrying Wayne?’

“And she said, ‘I think I would’ve liked to have been a journalist.’

“I said to her, ‘You would have made a very, very good journalist’ — because she has great observational skills.

I liked her enormously, and I think, as she said at the very end, she bonded with me

Jane Moore

“She sits back, she watches everybody, and every so often she’ll chip in with something and it’s a really good point.

“So I liked her enormously, and I think, as she said at the very end, she bonded with me.

“There’s something that we had, weirdly, as probably the two people in camp that had the most to play for.”

Asked if they will remain pals when the celebs go their separate ways, Jane added: “I hope so, but I think I’m going to leave that ball in her court.”

Jane had been left angry last week after being put on washing up duty, the task she hates most.

She jokingly accused boxer Barry McGuigan and McFly singer Danny Jones of being “sexist” for giving her the chore — despite her pleading for them not to.

Jane had already spent nine days cleaning out the dunny and was annoyed with the new camp leaders.

She also revealed she’d been battered with bruises she doesn’t know the cause of. But the culprit of one injury she ­sustained was clear — two marks on her breast after being latched on to by a leech in the night.

She’d noticed her bra was blood-soaked after a freezing cold camp shower. Jane said: “It honestly looked like I had been shot in the chest.

“I had two puncture marks and then it started to bruise. But I just went, ‘Oh, look, everyone, I’ve been breastfeeding a leech all night’.

‘Absolutely delightful’

“And they all went, ‘How are you so calm?’ So I said, ‘Well, it’s dead now and it’s done, so there’s no point fretting about it. Anyway, it’s on the fire now. Little bugger.”

After being evicted, she had an emotional reunion with daughters Grace, 20, and Ellie, 32, before heading off to enjoy her first hot shower in weeks.

She then cracked a bottle of champagne and her blonde hair had its bounce back after a blow-dry from Danny’s mum, Kathy.

She heaped praise on Danny — who she described as “absolutely delightful” – and the rest of her campmates.

Barry, she said, is a “fighter from the top of his head to the tip of his toes”.

And she insisted screaming Dean McCullough definitely acts “himself” and is an “absolute powerhouse of positivity”.

Asked about a winner, she said she hopes radio DJ Melvin Odoom, 44, or Coleen can power on to victory