Boxing legend Barry McGuigan has a famous relative who he's convinced is connected to one of his I'm A Celebrity campmates - and it's none other than Coleen Rooney
Boxing legend Barry McGuigan has revealed he is secretly related to the family of one of the other I'm A Celebrity campmates and it's... Coleen Rooney .
Barry traced his family roots when he was telling his life story in his autobiography Cyclone. He was nicknamed the 'Clones Cyclone' when he was a boxer as he grew up in Clones, Co Monaghan. Featherweight champion Barry, 63, said: "My mother ran the grocery business with her father, Johnny Rooney.
"Papa Rooney was always around, working the slicer at the back of the shop. There were always lots of family there. I would come home from school and if I saw my grandfather at the cash register, I knew that Mum and Dad were away to the cash-and-carry in Cavan or Monaghan or even down to Dublin.
"He died of TB two years after he returned in 1919, leaving his wife and seven children. My great-grandmother became the first lady caretaker of the post office in Clones and she reared her seven children on her own.
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