BARRY MCGUIGAN might go away the boxing jungle for one more sort on our tv screens.
The 63-year-old former WBA featherweight champion is rumoured to be participating within the newest collection of ITV’s I’m A Celeb…Get Me Out Of Right here! which begins on November 17.
Hosted by presenter duo Ant and Dec the long-running present takes place within the Australian jungle with a variety of celebrities. The contestants participate in a variety of ‘Bushtucker Trials’ which determines what sort of meals the campmates will eat.
The Irish boxing legend will give the present a sporting presence which seemed set to function ex-footballer turned pundit Ally McCoist. Nevertheless, the favored Scot has reportedly had a change of coronary heart.
McGuigan had an eight-year profession from Might 1981 to Might 1989 together with his most well-known win coming in opposition to Eusebio Pedroza at Loftus Highway in June 1985. Victory over the gifted Panamanian gave McGuigan the WBA world title in entrance of a raucous outside crowd. The identical yr ‘The Clones Cyclone’ gained the BBC Sports activities Persona of the Yr and in 2005 he turned a member of the Worldwide Boxing Corridor of Fame.
If McGuigan does journey Down Below to TV’s most well-known jungle he’ll observe within the footsteps of Amir Khan who completed fifth within the competitors seven years in the past. Khan made a second look on a spin-off present – I’m A Celeb…South Africa – however made an exit after a secret poll voted him out.
This yr’s rumoured line-up is: Coleen Rooney, Danny Jones, Oti Mabuse, Alan Halsall, GK Barry, Dean McCullough, Tulisa, Jane Moore, Barry McGuigan, Melvin Odoom, Maura Higgins and Rev Richard Coles.
