WAYNE Rooney’s closest friends have revealed what he plans to smuggle into the I’m A Celebrity jungle and also warned he could flip his lid and punch someone if he can’t cope with the lack of food – or coffee.

They also reveal he’s been working out ahead of going Down Under to get himself in shape – possibly in better shape than when he was at his playing peak for Manchester United and England.

Talking on the The Good The Bad and The Football podcast, his upcoming time in the jungle was assessed by host Paddy McGuinness as well as his former Manchester United players Nicky Butt and Paul Scholes and acting pal and fellow Scouser, James Nelson-Joyce.

Nicky said: “I just want to see him flip. I want to see him snap on the jungle…No food, No sleep. Mosquito bites.

“He’s going to snap. He’s ready to snap, isn’t he?”

He added: “Either way it will be great. he will be funny. I think he could win it, you know.”

Paul said: “That’s what gets people the most angry, isn’t it? Having no food…he’s either going to be hilarious or he’s going to flip his lid. He could bang someone.”

James said: “Well he’s cut the coffee out hasn’t he? he told me. He said: ‘I’ve not had caffeine for weeks.'”

Paul added: “He was all over coffee, wasn’t he?”

Nicky also revealed the one thing he was going to smuggle into the jungle camp – and it’s one that might surprise viewers.

He said: “I said: ‘what are you going to take in?’ He said: ‘Er, white pepper. I’m gonna put it in my band here (gestures to his trousers) and I’m gonna tip it out like that and I thought: ‘You’ll get caught!'”

Paddy explained that the bland food they eat in there is one of the things that gets campmates down, and he seemed to be drawing on experience of talking to fellow celebrities.

Paul added: “That’s what gets people the most angry, isn’t it? having no food.”

Paddy added: “He looks great though. He’s hammering the training to be on the telly in the jungle and when he were playing he never went to that level really, did he?

“He was never that ripped up when he was playing.”

James replied: “He was natural though was’t he? He was a natural beast.”

Paul ended things on a positive note too, saying: “I think he will win it. The only trouble you get those YouTubers and streamers and they get millions of votes.”

Rooney was seen arriving in Australia today, following in the footsteps of wife Coleen who did the jungle two years ago.