I'm A Celeb bosses 'splash out on Johnny Depp £21M mega mansion'

I'm A Celeb bosses have reportedly splashed out on a £21M mega mansion on Australia's Gold Coat for the new series' 'extravagant' launch later this month.

The ten-bedroom Diamond Head estate boasts a helipad, 2000-bottle wine cellar and cinema, and will likely house the celebs, including rumoured campmate Coleen Rooney, before they give up the luxury life and venture into the jungle.

But the home is no stranger to famous faces and was where Johnny Depp famously severed his finger in 2015 during an argument with then wife Amber Heard.

Once owned by motorcycle world champion Mick Doohan and rented by Brad Pitt, it even features a landing strip for private planes. 

A source told The Sun: 'Diamond Head is one of Australia's priciest properties so will suit Coleen down to the ground.

'The new location will bring showbiz sparkle to the series and the I'm A Celebrity team are finalising details about how exactly the property will be used and for how long.'

Before adding: 'Viewers can expect lots of surprises and everyone's very excited about the celebrities lined up for the new series — it's going to be must-see TV.' 

MailOnline have contacted ITV for comment. 

During his 2022 court case Johnny detailed the explosive fight he and Amber hadat the property where the top of his finger was severed when she allegedly threw a bottle of vodka at him.

The couple were in Australia while the actor was filming the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film. She claimed he chopped off his fingertip with a knife during the argument, and her team has called it a 'three day hostage situation' where the actor was repeatedly violent.

However Johnny said Amber was angry at him after she met with his lawyers to discuss a post nuptial agreement. She had claimed that one of the lawyers laughed at her - he later discovered that was not true.

He told the court: 'All I could do was try to calm her down and say I was not out to screw her over or put her in a position that was uncomfortable. It did not work, it escalated and turned into madness, chaos, violence.'

'She was irate, she was possessed. When I tried to remove myself as I normally would, as she's hammering me with brutal words. Pardon my language but I remember that it wasn't nice.. Sort of being called an a** kisser to lawyers or a pu**y that didn't fight for her or stand up for her. I tried to remove myself from the situation but to no avail.

'The house they'd rented for me in Australia was quite a large place. I think I ended up locking myself in at least nine bedrooms, bathrooms that day as she was banging on the doors and streaming obscenities and wanting to have a physical altercation.'

Depp described how Heard walked away after he locked himself in one room and then he walked downstairs to the rec room where there was a pool table and a bar.

He said: 'I went behind the bar, I grabbed a bottle of vodka, and a shot glass and sat at the bar and I poured myself two or three stiff shots of vodka, first taste of alcohol in a long time.

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'When she came down to the bar and found me there started screaming you're drinking again, the monster and all that.'

'She walked up to me and reached and grabbed the bottle of vodka and stood back and hurled it at me', Depp said, motioning the act of throwing. Moving his hand past his head, he said: 'It just went right past my head and smashed behind me.

'I stood up and walked behind the bar and there was a larger bottle of vodka, the kind with the handle. I grabbed that and sat in my seat, opened the bottle and poured myself a shot and drank it

'Miss Heard was flinging insults left right and center. She grabbed that bottle and threw that at me.' Depp said he used the bench in front of him to show the jury where the bar was situated and leaned back in his chair.

He said: 'I was leaning like this in the chair. First bottle went, got the other bottle, shot. Takes second bottle. I'm in this position again. My hand is on the edge of the bar like that, leaning over.

'She threw the large bottle and it made contact and shattered everywhere and I honestly didn't feel the pain at first at all, I felt no pain.'

'What I felt was heat and I felt as if something were dripping down my hand and then I looked down and realized that the tip of my finger had been severed. I was looking directly at my bone sticking out.

'The meaty portion of the inside of your finger. Blood was just pouring out and at that point I think I went into some sort of, I don't know what a nervous breakdown feels like but that's probably the closest I've been. Nothing made sense. I knew in my mind and in my heart this is not life. This is not life. No one should have to go through this.

'This feeling of being in the middle of some sort of nervous breakdown I started to write with my own blood on the walls, little reminders from our past that essentially represented lies she had told me, lies I had caught her in.'

Looking at a picture of himself on a stretcher, Depp said, 'That’s me in the emergency room. I see a detail I’d forgotten.

'Miss Heard had taken my cigarette from the ashtray and stubbed it out on my face.'

Coleen will  have full support from friend and football legend Ally McCoist in I'm A Celebrity as they're both set to appear in the jungle.

Ally, 62, was said to have cheered on Coleen, 38, during the Wagatha Christie trial with Rebekah Vardy, who was booted out early in the 2017 series.

And as Coleen is also thought to be getting the 'ultimate revenge' by signing up, she will have the backing of Ally in her corner.

At the time of the explosive legal battle, Ally waded into the drama and said he'd 'love to be a fly on the wall' in Rebekah's Leicester City player husband Jamie's dressing room.

Speaking on his talkSPORT breakfast show at the time, Ally said: 'If they’re men at all, they’ll get right into him. You’d love to be a fly on the wall in that dressing room.'