Emotions ran high for campmates in last night’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! as former world champion boxer Barry McGuigan broke down about losing his daughter Danika to cancer. The topic arose at the campfire when Newtownabbey-born Radio 1 DJ Dean McCullough asked Barry if he goes to church. The boxer replied: 'I used to go to church a lot but after my daughter… you know, not so much. I used to go incessantly but when you lose a child it’s different.'

McGuigan told the campmates how Danika, who died aged 33 in 2019 from cancer, had previously battled leukaemia as a child: 'They thought she wasn't going to get better but she fought back and she won it. She had two years of chemo but she was good, she came back'

Speaking about Danika’s second bout of cancer 20 years later, he said she had 'pains in her tummy but she was making a movie, she put it off and went to the doctor, called us all in. Stage 4 bowel cancer, five weeks, five weeks she died. She suffered so much pain and she said ‘I can’t hold on.'... It was hard just watching. It was shocking.'

It appeared that Barry opening up during the show got fellow contestant Coleen Rooney emotional too, as she spoke about the loss of her sister Rosie. 'She was 14 when she died, she’d be 26 now. It’s hard to lose a child, I’ve always said that… so we’re lucky to have what we’ve got'