The former World Champion's daughter, Danika, passed away in 2019.
Former World Champion boxer Barry McGuigan became emotional and was comforted by campmates on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! as he opened up about the death of his daughter, who died five weeks after being diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2019.
On night two of the new series, McGuigan told his jungle campmates: “She had leukaemia, when I was making the movie 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 fought back and she won it.
McGuigan’s campmates rallied around the former boxer as he became emotional, with McFly’s Danny Jones and N-Dubz star Tulisa Contostavlos giving him a hug. “After a brief but brave battle against cancer, Nika passed away peacefully in the early hours of Tuesday July 23, surrounded by her loving family.
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