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I'm a Celebrity 2024: Heartbroken Barry McGuigan in tears as he talks daughter's death
The boxer's daughter died in 2019 aged 33
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Watch: Barry McGuigan shares grief over daughter's death on I'm a Celebrity
Barry McGuigan broke down in tears as he discussed his late daughter's death on I'm a Celebrity.
It may only be the second episode of jungle life but emotions were running high as the campmates shared their heartaches.
The former boxer is still grieving his daughter Danika who died aged 33 in 2019 shortly after being diagnosed with bowel cancer. In Monday's episode, McGuigan was overcome with emotion and all the campmates rallied around to console him.
He said: "I've tried to talk about it... Those horrible weeks in the hospital, just watching her. It was shocking." His daughter had leukaemia at the age of 11 but she had recovered.
The former boxer told the group: "She had leukaemia, when I was making The Boxer with Daniel Day Lewis, three weeks from the end I had to leave because she’d been diagnosed with leukaemia, they thought she wasn't going to get better but she did, she fought back and she won it. She had two years of chemo. But she was good."
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Coleen Rooney also broke down in tears over losing her sister Rosie.
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Ant and Dec had a good giggle about Vardy trademarking "Wagatha Christie" as they vowed not to utter the phrase as they would have to pay it into "..... Rebekah Vardy's account".
I'm a Celebrity is back featuring a whole new cast of famous faces to take on jungle life. The celebrities are settling into camp life, with Tulisa Contostavlos and Alan Halsall as leaders, as they leave behind their luxury lifestyles.
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