Who is Barry McGuigan in ITV I'm A Celebrity 2024?

Another group of famous faces are heading into the Australian jungle for I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here.

The show is back on ITV as 10 celebrities face three weeks of gruelling bush tucker trials and sleeping rough in camp.

Among those who will be taking part this year is former boxing champion Barry McGuigan. The 63-year-old, nicknamed The Clones Cyclone, is originally from County Monaghan in Ireland.

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As an amateur, Barry represented Northern Ireland in the Commonwealth Games in 1978 and Ireland at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. He eventually turned professional in the early 1980s and attracted an enormous following across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Barry became world featherweight champion after beating Eusebio Pedroza in 1985. He was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year in the same year, and was credited with uniting both Catholic and Protestant fans in support at the height of the Troubles.

After retirement from the sport, he went on to become a successful boxing trainer and TV pundit. He lives near Whitstable, Kent, with his wife Sandra.

The couple had four children - however their daughter Nika tragically died in 2016, aged 33, after a battle with cancer.

Speaking ahead of I'm a Celebrity, Barry said: “It can be physically arduous, but it’s the psychological part of it that I want to conquer before I get too old.

“I’m 63 now. I’d like to think I’m a young 63, but that doesn’t mean it’ll make any of these challenges easy. I’d rather do it when I’m 63 than 73, put it that way. I’d like to do well.

“I’m not saying I’m going to win, but I’d like to be in there for a sustained amount of time so that I can get to know all of the guys in camp.”

He added: “I couldn’t refuse to do it. Once you’ve made the decision to get into I’m A Celebrity, you have to be willing to do everything.

“It might be disgusting and you might be tired, but being a fighter and being dedicated and committed to training and getting ready for fights, you have to go through hell, physically as well as psychologically.

“So, I know what I’m letting myself in for.

“It might be very funny, me going, ‘oh no, go on, you do it’, there might be all of that. But at the end of the day I’m not going to refuse.”

Joining Barry in the jungle is Corrie star Alan Halsall, Dancing on Ice judge Oti Mabuse, TV presenter GK Barry, singer Tulisa, WAG Coleen Rooney, radio DJ Melvin Odoom, Loose Women's Jane Moore, musician Danny Jones and radio presenter Dean McCullough.

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here starts on ITV1 on Sunday, November 17 at 9pm.