I'm A Celebrity's Ant and Dec name who they want in the jungle after star's huge admission

Ant and Dec have admitted there is one person they would love to see enter the I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here camp - and the star in question is open to the chance

Geordie duo Ant and Dec have named the famous face they would love to see in the I'm A Celebrity camp.

The presenters said they would be "more than happy" to see Jack Grealish enter the jungle Down Under after the footballer admitted he would love to take part. However, the footballer confessed his Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, wouldn't be as keen.

The England ace said that he was desperate to take part in the future - but that Pep would “not be too happy” if he signed up yet. He said: “I cant lie to you, it’s something that I would absolutely love to do. It’s a show that I have watched for years since I was little.

"It's a show that I love. I don't know how i would get on in there. I don’t think I would be the best to be honest but I would give it a go.”

Ant says he would bite Jack’s hand off to take part. He said: “We would be more than happy to have you in the jungle whenever you are ready and whenever Pep says you are allowed.”

He would be far from the first sports star to enter the camp. Currently, former boxing world champion Barry McGuigan is taking on the jungle life. His fellow celebs and fans watching the show were moved by an emotional scene earlier in the week as Barry, nicknamed the Clones Cyclone, broke down when discussing his late daughter. The pugilist was consoled during Monday night's episode during a candid conversation with radio host Dean McCullough.

Viewers watched as Dean asks Barry if he goes to church and the sport star replied: “I used to go to church a lot but after my daughter… you know, not so much.” Discussing his loss, the 63-year-old star explained: “She had leukaemia, when I was making the boxing 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.”

As Barry became emotional and broke down in tears, all the campmates ralled around to console him, with Danny Jones and Tulisa Contostavlos giving him a hug. Barry said: “Thank you, you’re all so lovely, I really appreciate it.”

Speaking of the second bout of cancer, Barry later told Loose Women star Jane Moore how his daughter had “pains in her tummy but she was making the movie, she put it off and went to the doctor, called us all in. Stage 4 bowel cancer, 5 weeks, 5 weeks she died."

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