Professional boxer and I’m A Celeb star Tony Bellew has revealed he recently got caught up in a roadside row after a driver gestured to him to pull over, and the tense altercation that followed led Tony’s wife Rachael to beg him to get back in their car.
While appearing on Saturday night quiz show The Wheel in an episode to be shown on Saturday 9 November, Tony, 41, was asked by host Michael McIntyre whether anyone had ever stopped and confronted him in public, and Tony told his story.
He said: “A guy told me to pull over on the motorway not so long ago, so I happily obliged. I pulled over and he pulled in right behind me.
I jumped out of the car and started walking towards him and I got about six or seven metres from him." Tony continued his story, adding: “He looked at me and he just said, ‘I am not a World Champion boxer.’ Then my wife got out, and she said ‘stop, stop, stop it,’ and I said ‘no, he told us to pull over so I’ve pulled over.’ He was a bully and there’s nothing worse in life than a bully.
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