Boxing legend joins I’m A Celebrity 2024 line-up after Ally McCoist quits

BOXING fable Barry McGuigan has signed up for I'm A Celebrity 2024.

The boxing promoter antecedently mocked Amir Khan for failing a grim Bushtucker Trial connected the ITV show.

Now The Sun tin uncover sporting fable Barry McGuigan has yet caved into Ant and Dec's pleas to motion up.

A jungle insider said: "Barry is simply a knockout signing for the amusement and complements the enactment up which, truthful far, has been dominated by beardown women.

"He's a immense prima who'll bring backmost nostalgic memories of the Eighties for galore viewers, due to the fact that that was the epoch erstwhile his vocation was astatine its highest and helium was a large household name.

"At 63 he'll besides beryllium the oldest campmate this year, though the rev Richard Coles isn't acold down him astatine 62."

It comes aft a pugnacious fewer years for Irish prima Barry, who mislaid his girl Danika to bosom cancer.

He told The Late Late Show successful 2021: "She was specified an intrinsic portion of the household that each time we ache."

Barry follows successful the footsteps of Amir and Tony Bellew, who had immense occurrence connected the show.