The wife of footballer Kyle Walker is reportedly being courted by ITV amidst ongoing marital and relocation dramas
Annie Kilner is being eyed up for the jungle
Lisa McLoughlin 2 minutes ago
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ITV producers are reportedly eager to sign Annie Kilner for I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, believing she would be ‘TV gold’.
The wife of footballer Kyle Walker, 33, is tipped to follow in the footsteps of fellow WAGs Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy by heading to the jungle, after recently turning down a six-figure deal to appear on Celebrity Big Brother.
Kilner, who shares the same management team as Rooney, has yet to publicly address her tumultuous relationship with Walker, who is currently on loan at AC Milan from Manchester City.
The couple, who tied the knot in 2022 after 12 years together, share four sons; Roman, 11, Riaan, seven, Reign, five, and nine-month-old Rezon, while Walker, 34, also has two children from an affair with influencer Lauryn Goodman, 34.
A TV insider told The Sun: “In terms of reality TV. Annie is this year’s hottest property. So many TV producers are desperate to snap her up.
“She has a great character, a dedicated hands-on mum so hugely relatable and the cherry on the top, she has barely said a word despite being dragged through the media.
“She can also be fiery and so it would be TV gold to get her on a reality show where she is on camera 24/7, with huge potential for revelations from her time with Kyle.”
It was also reported that Kilner declined Celebrity Big Brother as her youngest is too young for her to leave but a insider close to her told The Standard that she has yet to decide whether she does want to go down the reality TV route.
“Annie would be so cool on any of the reality shows,” a source close to Kilner told us. “But she hasn’t decided if that’s the route she’d want to take, she’s ferociously protective of her family and is not sure that she’d want to add to the media spotlight that has been thrown on them, through no fault of her own.”
Meanwhile, Goodman is said to be planning a move to Italy to be closer to Walker —a significant shift from her previous stance.
A source told The Sun that Goodman was rethinking her decision to stay in the UK while Walker relocates to Italy with Kilner and their children.
According to the insider, she now feels that Italy is “a lot closer than her commute to Cheshire with how busy the roads can be.”’
Last week, the influencer had claimed she “wished” she had the option to relocate abroad after becoming entangled in an affair and a highly publicised court battle with the footballer.
During the legal proceedings, she was criticised by a judge for “treating the footballer as an open-ended checkbook,” though she maintained, “I’ll never give up on my kids.”
Speaking to The Mirror, she addressed her potential move, insisting that Walker’s whereabouts were irrelevant to her.
“For the last year, I wished to have the option to move abroad because, with all of the drama, I’d like a life reset, but I’m not sure how that looks for us at the minute or what that entails,” she explained.
“It makes no difference to me where [Kyle] is—he could be on Mars right now for all I care.”
The Standard has contacted ITV, Annie Kilner and Lauryn Goodman’s reps for comment.
