I’m A Celebrity’s Tony Bellew reveals secret grief battle after dad’s shock diagnosis and says ‘I’m struggling with it’

I’M A Celebrity’s Tony Bellew has revealed his concealed grief conflict aft his dad’s daze diagnosis, admitting helium is "struggling to travel to presumption with it".

Tony, 41, told fans his father's doctors had detected a fig of illnesses, though helium chose not to disclose the specifics.

In an affectional Instagram video arsenic portion of his Movember Shaving Story series, the erstwhile boxer encouraged fans to talk openly astir intelligence wellness and reflected connected his ain struggles with grief.

Tony said: "This 1 that we should speech astir radical being vulnerable. Well, I deliberation not a idiosyncratic successful the satellite who isn't vulnerable.

"I've mislaid rather a fewer radical successful my time, from a boxing coach, your grandparents, your brother-in-law, to a batch of antithetic people, and struggled massively with it.

"I've present got a dada who's been diagnosed with a mates of antithetic things, but he's trying his precise best.

"And has ever been a large father. So astatine the minute, my spot of conflict and fearfulness is with my dad. I conflict to travel to presumption with it, stuggling to comprehend it, and it frightens me. It gets maine determination a lot.

"So, yeah, now, if I couldn't unfastened up anymore if I tried. So I'm telling this now. It could astir apt spell retired to millions of people, astatine a clip to enactment it around. So if I tin archer millions of people, hopefully you guys tin archer me.

"Someone oregon anyone retired determination listening. Yeah, guys, commencement talking and admit things due to the fact that we're not going to get anyplace if we don't. I deliberation it's massively important."

Earlier this month, Tony announced helium would beryllium launching the bid successful enactment of the yearly initiative, aiming to promote men to person honorable conversations astir their intelligence health.

He wrote connected the platform: "As portion of Movember, I privation to promote much men to speech to each different astir X, Y and Z.

"Therefore, each fewer days, I’m gonna bash silly videos similar this.. These are childish memories I person locked successful my tiny small brain.. Some comic immoderate disfigured and immoderate nice.. Guys let’s conscionable get talking hey!!"

While small is known astir Tony's father, helium antecedently revealed helium was raised by his grandma aft helium near erstwhile Tony was 10.

Sadly, conscionable up of his jungle stint past year, she mislaid her beingness astatine 97.

He said astatine the time: "I signed the time earlier she passed away, truthful determination was nary going backmost then. If I motion something, I honour my agreement.

"In an perfect satellite I would person near it but I had signed. I was coming, truthful I americium here. But I americium going backmost to hide her connected the 15th.

"I was going to renegade if I couldn't determination the burial date. I tin hide her present erstwhile I get back."

The prima added to OK! magazine: 'She was successful a home. And she told my mum 'I'll beryllium capable to ticker that [I'm A Celeb] each night'.

"So yeah, it is what it is. She'll beryllium watching, you know, from wherever she is and immoderate she's doing. She was a diamond of an aged lady. She was wonderful.

"I travel from a azygous genitor household, my dada near erstwhile I was 10. So erstwhile you travel from wherever I travel from, your Nan helps astir a batch due to the fact that your parent goes to work. So your nan is your 2nd mum.

"She was a lovely, beauteous woman, and she had the bosom of gold, truthful she'll beryllium missed by each of us. Me and my brothers and my parent and my dada by the mode arsenic well."