Barry McGuigan has revealed ITV bosses held talks with I'm A Celebrity contestants to avoid any offensive terms being used in camp.
Former boxing champ Barry, 63, welcomed the move and admitted he was still learning when it came to addressing people in the correct way with an expanding number of terms for gender identity.
Barry said: "I'm sure there will be altercations, as it were, and people falling out. It's simply impossible to be in a sort of pressurised environment like that for three weeks. I would like to be, in those scenarios, I'd like to be somebody that would pour cold water over it and just cool it down."
He added: "I mean, it's virtually impossible, with how the world is evolving, with all the politics that are involved in everyday life, it's virtually impossible not to be occasionally politically incorrect. I've just had a number of discussions this morning with the production people, so that you do your best not to offend people, or not to say something that would be... but you know, you're always learning, you're always trying, and as we evolve as human beings and as we interact and all of that, there are certain ways of saying things and certain ways that you don't say things."
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PA)He added: "So if I offend anybody, or if I say something wrong, I will ask them how they would like me to address them. And therefore I want to get it right, and I want to hear it from them.
"So I'll do my best to do that. But you know, am I going to put my hand on my heart and say I'll go through the potentially three weeks without saying something politically incorrect? No, I can't say I'll do that. But of course, that's always a possibility.
"Political correctness changes every day. And how you address people, how you address sexes and race and all of that, you have to be politically correct, especially when potentially 10 to 12 million people watch it.
"So you know, it's just trying to not hurt people's feelings. I don't want to do that. So you do your level best to (make sure) that you're politically correct."
Barry, who won reality show Hell's Kitchen on ITV in 2004, also insisted he should be up to most challenges despite being the oldest campmate this year.
He said: "I look after myself. I don't drink, I don't smoke. I work out a couple of times a week, you know, I haven't blown up in weight that much, I'm still the same as I've always been over the last 20-30 years.
"I wouldn't say I'm super fit, but I'm in pretty decent condition, so I don't worry from that perspective, you know.
But this is the thing about I'm A Celebrity. You cannot prepare for that, you know, you can train and do all you like, but that's not preparing you for this show. And that's what makes it intriguing, in the sense that that's what the challenge is.
"Without a doubt, it's very much a mental challenge.
If you put yourself in the same position you're in a fairly closed environment with people who you haven't known or you haven't really grown up with, you don't really know them, your thrown a whole load of tasks, you're put in uncomfortable positions the whole way through. How do you possibly prepare for that? You can't."
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