Inside I’m A Celebrity stars’ tragic pasts from homelessness to family tragedies

I’M A Celebrity prima Barry McGuigan moved the full campy to tears erstwhile helium opened up astir his daughter's tragic death.

It led much of the campmates to archer of their idiosyncratic stories that person shaped them into the radical they are today. Here we instrumentality a look into their affectional pasts from homelessness to household tragedies.

Oti Mabuse

Oti Mabuse says she was near "shattered inside” pursuing the decease of her niece Tlhogi astatine the property of 28.

The erstwhile Strictly Come Dancing prima struggled with the abrupt nonaccomplishment successful 2022.

At the clip she wrote: “I americium truthful shattered wrong I can’t adjacent statesman to picture the pain. This is not however this was expected to go. We had plans together, question the satellite and creation connected a formation successful Jamaica for my birthday.”

Reflecting connected their shared childhood, she said: “I utilized to fetch you mundane from creche, swimming, chess since we were 8. You were lone 28 yet the kindest, sweetest quality being successful my life! I’ve mislaid my niece, my small sister, my champion friend.

“Life dealt you the harshest paper but you ever chose to win, you ever fought to travel retired the different broadside supra it each with a grin connected your face. I emotion you overmuch with each my bosom and present you’re gone and I consciousness mislaid successful much ways than 1 to a symptom I’ve ne'er felt before.

“I’m inactive calling you and texting you trying to recognize – how? Why? May you remainder successful bid and power. My saccharine Tlhogi.”

On I'm A Celebrity, Oti spoke for the archetypal clip astir the daze termination of her brother.

She opened up aft McFly's Danny Jones broke down successful tears astir struggling with anxiety.

Oti said: “I had a member who committed termination erstwhile helium was 16 and I think, if helium had spoken to idiosyncratic astir what helium was feeling, it would’ve been a antithetic turnout.”

Oti, who was calved successful Pretoria in South Africa, explained: “Especially successful our culture, we don’t truly unfastened up.” 

Barry McGuigan

Barry McGuigan's girl died successful July 2019 aged conscionable 33.

Barry broke down astir his loss arsenic helium told campmates she died 5 weeks aft being told she had bowel cancer.

Dean asked the boxer if helium goes to church, to which Barry replied: “I utilized to spell to religion a batch but aft my daughter… you know, not truthful much.”

Danika was diagnosed with acute lymphoid leukemia erstwhile she was 11-years-old.

Dean revealed: “She had leukaemia, erstwhile I was making the boxing with Daniel Day Lewis, 3 weeks from the extremity I had to permission due to the fact that she’d been diagnosed with leukaemia, they thought she wasn't going to get amended but she fought backmost and she won it.

"She had 2 years of chemo. She was good, she came back..."

However, different signifier of crab returned erstwhile she was 33, which took her life.

Barry shared Danika with his woman Sandra.

The joined mates are besides parents to their 3 sons Shane, Jake and Blane.

Coleen Rooney

Coleen Rooney's small sister died aged 14 aft a lifelong conflict with the uncommon encephalon disorder.

Rosie passed distant successful 2013 from Rett syndrome, which causes terrible disabilities.

Rosie was primitively fostered astatine 2 years aged by Coleen's parents, Tony and Colette.

They knew she was disabled but it took a fewer years to realise however superior her information was.

After Coleen broke down successful tears, Dean asked her: "What's got your feeling truthful upset?"

Coleen said: "My mum and dada mislaid my sister truthful I cognize precisely what he's going through.

"That's truthful bittersweet for the 1 family."

Coleen explained: "I don't usually get worked up, it takes maine a lot, but to see, adjacent erstwhile Rosie died, I kept it unneurotic for them, my mum and dad.

"It's erstwhile you're distant and successful antithetic environment. It's erstwhile you've got clip to halt and think.

"Rosie's day is January. She was 14 erstwhile she died, she’d beryllium 26 now."

Dean McCullough

Radio One prima Dean McCullough had nary fixed code erstwhile his parents separated erstwhile helium was a child.

He ended up sofa-surfing aft moving to London arsenic a teen trying to prosecute his imagination of moving successful the West End.

"We weren't surviving connected the street, we were surviving connected my aunt's location connected a sofa. I was moving betwixt houses connected a regular basis.

"I person problems with my possessions and feeling similar I request to instrumentality attraction of perfectly everything astir me.

"That comes down to moving from location to location and not ever feeling similar thing was ever genuinely mine."

He besides spoke astir the instinct to fly astatine the archetypal motion of trouble, saying: "As soon arsenic I sensed immoderate benignant of danger, I'd beryllium consecutive retired of [where I was staying]... for a agelong clip I had nary fixed address. I would spell retired connected the Thursday and conscionable enactment retired each play due to the fact that I conscionable didn't privation to spell home."

As good arsenic homelessness; Dean has spoken honestly astir going sober, "Alcoholism runs successful my household and I've got a batch of friends that person been intoxicant babelike truthful I conscionable thought it was my turn."

"I looked astatine my bins successful my flat and it was like, 3 bottles of red, a vessel of vodka, a vessel of prosecco, I was similar 'who drank that? ' Oh it was me."

Maura Higgins

Love Island prima Maura was near devastated by the decease of her champion person Andrew Rowan.

He died aged 26 erstwhile his motorbike collided with 3 cars successful Co Athlone, Ireland successful 2017.

She said she blames herself for what happened hours aft she turned down meal plans.

Maura admitted her regret that she "couldn't beryllium bothered" to get retired of her pyjamas and spell retired with her pal connected that fateful night.

Her grief contributed to the breakdown of her narration with her father.

The 33-year-old cut interaction with her "heartbroken" dad aft a "horrendous" telephone call.

Maura has 2 sisters and a brother, calved to mum Sharon and lorry operator dada Seamus Higgins.

She told Paul C Brunson, connected his podcast We Need To Talk: “It's benignant of weird. We haven't spoken successful a fewer years now.

"I deliberation if I excavation deep, I don't deliberation I've ever forgiven my dada for not being determination for maine erstwhile my champion person passed away. And helium wasn't determination for me.”

Reverend Richard Coles

in 2019, Reverend Richard Coles' hubby Rev David Coles, a Church of England vicar, sadly passed away.

There was constricted detail astir his death until 2 years aboriginal erstwhile the I'm A Celebrity prima revealed David had died from alcoholism.

Richard and David had been unneurotic for 12 years and were successful a a civilian partnership.

In an extract from his publication The Madness Of Grief: A Memoir Of Love And Loss, Richard, said: "It was really, truly pugnacious to spot idiosyncratic you emotion destruct himself.

"It is similar idiosyncratic is drowning and you propulsion them a lifebelt but they are conscionable not taking the lifebelt.

"And I did effort everything I could deliberation of to assistance him halt drinking, and successful fairness to him helium did effort too, but it was excessively overmuch for him."

Danny Jones

McFly vocalist Danny Jones broke down successful tears arsenic helium told of his 20-year conflict with anxiety.

Danny revealed to his caller campmates that helium has been successful therapy since helium was 19 to header with the wellness condition.

He has a tattoo that reads “don’t worry, beryllium happy”, explaining: “It’s due to the fact that I’m ever perpetually worrying, but that’s what I’m moving on.”

It started during a unrecorded TV interrogation erstwhile helium was a teenager.

“I was freaking retired and I couldn’t reply the question that got asked to me," Danny said.

“My bosom complaint goes crazy, I went white, and I felt similar I was going to puke.”

When asked by Jane if his anxiousness stemmed from puerility oregon the pressures of being successful McFly, Danny admitted: “I deliberation I escaped a lot.”

He became flooded with emotion, putting his caput successful his hands arsenic tears welled up.