ITV I'm A Celebrity fans furiously demand Barry McGuigan is 'protected' after spotting heartbreaking move

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I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here viewers were both update and furious as Barry McGuigan suffered a devastating moment in the jungle.

The former boxer is among the ten celebrities who have signed up to the ITV reality show this year. Barry has already had an extremely emotional moment in camp having 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. READ MORE: BBC Strictly Come Dancing star says 'he's going to go' in brutal prediction 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." His campmates rallied around the former boxer as he became emotional, with McFly’s Danny Jones and N-Dubz star Tulisa Contostavlos giving him a hug. "You’re a man going through pain and you’re vulnerable about it, that takes strength.