ITV I'm A Celebrity Barry McGuigan's hidden talent that is a world away from boxing career

Barry McGuigan has unveiled his hidden talent which is a world away from his successful boxing career. The former professional boxer, 63, is amongst the 12 famous faces who are living in the Australian jungle for this year's series of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here.

In Tuesday's episode (November 26), viewers saw each of the celebrities take part in the challenge Fright Bus. Sat in rows of three, the celebrities had to guide three red tokens along the bar in front of them to push the stop button and exit the bus, taking an item of luggage each with them.

But of course, the campmates were joined by critters which were continuously falling down onto them. As part of the task, Danny selected a guitar-shaped box as his chosen piece of luggage, as he shared: “I am hoping that this lovely shape is gonna be a guitar."

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Once the campmates had returned to camp after a terrifying trip on the Fright Bus, they took the opportunity to open their luggage. Oti found a Shewee in hers, Coleen found a neck pillow and Dean some women’s pumps.

However, amongst the clothes, which included a floor length sequined dress that Dean decided to try on, were a few tasty treats including maltesers, skittles, popcorn and cheesy wotsits. Birthday girl Maura sadly had to make do with an apple, which she was less than impressed about, as she asked: “What did I do to deserve this?”.

Alan found a disposable camera in his luggage, and so all the celebrities gathered around for a camp photo, with Maura taking the selfie. Lastly, Danny received a guitar and he treated the camp to a rendition of the McFly song ‘Shine A Light’. With the camp joining in, Dean and Melvin took turns to sing a solo.

It was then when Barry shocked the camp with his lovely vocal ability as he took his turn to sing 'Shine A Light', with Richard remarking: “Revelation of the evening, Barry McGuigan can sing like a canary, it was lovely.” With the camp in high spirits, Barry remarked: “It was brilliant, a lovely end to a traumatic and scary evening."

Barry's hidden singing talent is unexpected from the boxing star, originally from County Monaghan in Ireland, who was known throughout his career as The Clones Cyclone.

He became world featherweight world champion after beating Eusebio Pedroza on points in 1985. Following his historic victory he was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year in the same year.

Barry lost the title to Steve Cruz in Nevada the following year. He was credited with uniting both Catholic and Protestant fans in support at the height of the Troubles. Barry last fought in May 1989, losing to Jim McDonnell at Manchester's G-Mex Centre.

In total Barry fought professional 35 times - winning 32 (with 28 KOs) and losing three times (with one KO). After retirement from the sport, he went on to become a successful boxing trainer and TV pundit.

During his time in the jungle, Barry has shown his vulnerability after he opened up to his campmates about the death of his daughter, who died five weeks after being diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2019.

Actress Danika 'Nika' McGuigan died on July 23 2019 at the age of 33, after her second bout of cancer. The Dublin-based star, who played Danielle in BBC Three comedy Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope, originally overcame leukaemia after two years of treatment when she was diagnosed at the age of 11.

Barry told his jungle campmates: "She had leukaemia, when I was making the movie The Boxer with Daniel Day Lewis, three weeks from the end I had to leave because she’d been diagnosed with leukaemia, they thought she wasn’t going to get better but she fought back and she won it. She had two years of chemo, she was good, she came back."