I'm a Celebrity 2026: three campmates on London nights out

London (Dominion Theatre, West End, Soho and Berkeley Square) · 2026

Taken London (Dominion Theatre, West End, Soho and Berkeley Square)

ITV has named the eleven celebrities heading into the jungle for I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, which starts on Monday 16 November at 9pm on ITV1 and ITVX (Cosmopolitan UK). Three of them were regulars on London's late-night pavements twenty years ago.

Wayne Rooney, 2004 and 2005

On 8 July 2004, a few weeks after Euro 2004 made him a household name at 18, Wayne Rooney left the Dominion Theatre on Tottenham Court Road after a performance of We Will Rock You, the Queen musical. A minder's arm sweeps across the frame as he heads for the door.

A young Wayne Rooney in a white T-shirt at a red stage door as a minder's arm crosses the frame. — Wayne Rooney leaves the Dominion Theatre, Tottenham Court Road, London, 8 July 2004. Credit: Charlie Pycraft / BACKGRID.

By 12 March 2005 he was a Manchester United player. That night he and Coleen McLoughlin made a night of it with Francis Jeffers, starting with dinner at The Ivy and moving on to Funky Buddha in Mayfair, where Dwight Yorke was also out. Rooney is in a striped shirt and dark jacket; Coleen wears a coral dress and cowboy boots.

Wayne Rooney in a striped shirt and dark jacket walking out of a club doorway at night. — Wayne Rooney on a night out in London's West End, 12 March 2005. Credit: Charlie Pycraft / BACKGRID.

Wayne Rooney and Coleen McLoughlin in a coral dress and cowboy boots leaving a venue together. — Wayne Rooney and Coleen McLoughlin on a night out in London, 12 March 2005. Credit: Charlie Pycraft / BACKGRID.

Claire Sweeney, 2004

In October 2004 the actress and singer was out in Soho in a brown leather jacket with a fur collar, jeans and a pink bag, smiling straight down the lens.

Claire Sweeney smiling in a brown leather jacket with a fur collar, carrying a pink handbag at night. — Claire Sweeney in Soho, London, October 2004. Credit: Charlie Pycraft / BACKGRID.

Mariella Frostrup, 2006

On 8 February 2006 the broadcaster left the London Film Critics' Circle Awards afterparty at Benares on Berkeley Square, all in white with a bouquet of pink flowers.

Mariella Frostrup in a white dress and scarf holding pink flowers on a Mayfair street at night. — Mariella Frostrup leaves the London Film Critics' Circle Awards afterparty at Benares, Berkeley Square, Mayfair, 8 February 2006. Credit: Charlie Pycraft / BACKGRID.

The pictures

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