I’m A Celeb’s Barry McGuigan puts his vocal skills down to Eurovision star dad after ‘lovely’ duet

Thanks to his father, who placed fourth at Eurovision, Barry McGuigan’s impressive vocals demonstrate that he has a musical family.

The former world champion performed the McFly song Shine A Light while Danny Jones and the former world champion hit all the right notes. Afterwards, campmate Rev Richard Coles remarked: “Revelation of the evening, Barry McGuigan can sing like a canary. It was lovely”.

It is, however, that Barry, who has a reputation for his song Chance of a Lifetime, was chosen as the son of his father Pat, who won the 1968 song contest at the Royal Albert Hall in West London. Among his rivals that year was Cliff Richard, who came second with his smash hit Congratulations.

Barry has previously described his father’s “hugely important role” in my life, who passed away in 1987 at the age of 52. Pat, who used the stage surname of McGeegan, was also renowned for singing Danny Boy before several of his son’s fights.

Barry, 63, said of him: “He was a travelling musician with great credibility, and he played four or five musical instruments and sang in several big bands, and then sang in a number of show bands. Then, he was chosen for the Eurovision Song Contest. Our hometown was abuzz.

We thought it was very significant. I can recall leaving the road to meet him after returning from Dublin; it was very exciting as a child.

“And I suppose that was one of his most significant and most well-known moments, which made the Eurovision festival so important to my life in many ways.” Funnily enough, my biggest moment occurred on the BBC at Loftus Road against Eusebio Pedroza, at a venue with an audience of almost 20 million.

Barry famously defeated his Panamanian rival on that night to win the WBA featherweight title. The Northern Irishman believes that his beloved father, who lost to Massiel to the Eurovision Song Contest, was a performer during the song competition’s height. When my grandfather was involved with it for so long, Barry said, “I would like to think it had a little more credibility.

” The year that dad took part… we had Cliff with Congratulations. And shortly afterwards, ABBA won. It had more gravitas, but now it’s more of a throwaway. After surviving the most recent Bushtucker Trial, Spiralling out of control, Barry has lived to fight another day.

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Source: Mirror