Tony Bellew lost his beloved nan just a day after he signed up for I'm A Celebrity(Image: Instagram/tonybellew)

ITV I'm A Celebrity's Tony Bellew's sweet tribute to late nan who died hours before signing up

I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! star Tony Bellew found out his beloved nan, Rose, had died the day before he signed up for the ITV reality show in Australia

by · The Mirror

Family man Tony Bellew gave a quiet tribute to his beloved nan when the camp went to the Jungle Arms pub tonight.

The celebs all got to sing karaoke and Tony opted for Nat King Cole’s L-O-V-E before he could be heard saying afterwards "That was for my little nan". Tony's nan Rose died in November, just 24 hours after he signed his I'm A Celebrity contract.

She was a "second mum" to Tony growing up and he is still grieving her loss. Before going into camp, the sports star paid tribute to Rose and told the Mirror: "I signed the day before she passed away, so there was no going back then. If I sign something, I honour my agreement. In an ideal world I would have left it but I had signed. I was coming, so I am here. But I am going back to bury her on the 15th.

She would have been proud of her grandson in the jungle( Image: James Gourley/REX/Shutterstock)
He said he wanted to keep to his word despite the family trauma( Image: Instagram/tonybellew)

"I was going to renegade if I couldn't move the burial date. I can bury her now when I get back. She was in a home. And she told my mum 'I'll be able to watch that [I'm A Celeb] every night'. So yeah, it is what it is. She'll be watching, you know, from wherever she is and whatever she's doing. She was a diamond of an old lady. She was wonderful.

"I come from a single parent household, my dad left when I was 10. So when you come from where I come from, your Nan helps around a lot because your mother goes to work. So your nan is your second mum. She was a lovely, lovely woman, and she had the heart of gold, so she'll be missed by all of us. Me and my brothers and my mother and my dad by the way as well."

The night in the Jungle Arms also featured campmates eating pizza and drinking beer. Nigel Farage shocked his fellow campmates by singing I'm Too Sexy by Right Said Fred and unbuttoning his shirt.

But the move was not an impromptu one and he and Right Said Fred are friends and they have appeared on his GB News channel a number of times. In May they came on and sang I'm Too Sexy and Farage did the same bizarre stripping off routine.

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