Barry McGuigan took half in I am A Movie star… Get Me Out Of Right here! in 2024. The former skilled boxer, 64, opened up in regards to the tragic dying of his daughter on the ITV programme. Actress Danika McGuigan died 5 weeks after being identified with bowel most cancers on July 23, 2019, aged 33. In a tearful admission Barry took to X on Sunday to thank followers for his or her messages days after he marked the anniversary of her dying. Followers rushed to assist him after he shared a heartfelt tweet.

Barry penned: “So many fabulous messages of condolences for our beloved daughter Nika. Our household are grateful for all you lovely messages.” In an earlier put up he accompanied the put up with an image alongside his daughter, writing: “It was 6 years yesterday that we misplaced our valuable daughter Nika. You’re beloved and missed a lot Nika.” Followers rushed to assist the previous boxer as one stated: “Thought are with you and your loved ones at this time my mate.” One other tweeted: “I watched Barry on I’m a Movie star and he broke my coronary heart. What a beautiful form real man he’s. Ideas and plenty of like to you and your loved ones at this time Barry.”

A 3rd penned: “Sending ideas and prayers on your lovely daughter Nika. 5 years gone is a loss no dad or mum ought to must cope with.”

A fourth stated: “Mate we’re all crushed at your loss. Nobody ever will get over the loss of a kid, solely ultimately involves phrases with it at finest.”

“Sorry on your loss sir, it should be so troublesome,” a fifth added.

One other shared: “I hope you might be okay. All of us love you.”

Danika had performed Danielle in BBC Three comedy Cannot Cope, Will not Cope and appeared in a number of movies.

In an emotional dialog, Barry advised his jungle campmates on the ITV actuality present about how she initially recovered from leukaemia as a toddler after two years of remedy.

“She had leukaemia, once I was making the film The Boxer with Daniel Day Lewis, three weeks from the top I needed to go away as a result of she’d been identified with leukaemia, they thought she wasn’t going to get higher however she fought again and he or she gained it,” he stated.

“She had two years of chemo, she was good, she got here again.”