Who is Barry McGuigan’s son Shane and when did he date I’m a Celebrity contestant Maura Higgins?

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SHANE McGuigan is lad of the satellite champion boxer Barry McGuigan, but Shane has his ain vocation successful the athletics too.

His celebrated dada is acceptable for an awkward brushwood connected I’m a Celeb though, erstwhile helium comes face-to-face with Shane’s celebrated ex-girlfriend.

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Beginnings successful Boxing

Shane was calved successful 1988 and sport was a large portion of his beingness from a young age.

His dad, Barry, is simply a erstwhile featherweight satellite champion who earned himself the nickname The Clones Cyclone, since helium came from Clones, Ireland.

Barry was adjacent inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame successful 2000 and the International Boxing Hall of Fame successful 2005.

Shane has 2 brothers, who person stayed retired of the backstage eye, and a late sister named Danika.

Danika was good known for her relation arsenic Danielle Mullane successful Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope but sadly passed distant successful 2019 from colon crab astatine the property of 33.

Shane has gone connected to go a boxing manager with a gym successful South West London.

He has trained respective rising stars successful the boxing scene, including Chantelle Cameron, George Groves, Carl Frampton and Lee McGregor.

Romance with Maura

Shane met Maura Higgins successful May 2018 erstwhile she was moving arsenic a ringing miss for William Hill.

She was connected ringing paper work for the David Haye vs Tony Bellew rematch, which Shane was covering for a vigor show.

After dating briefly, they decided to telephone it quits and person remained friends.

An insider gave fans a model into their whirlwind romance and said that surviving betwixt Ireland and London made it hard for the mates to spot each other.

He said: “Maura has brains and quality and she rapidly caught Shane’s eye.

“They got chatting and had instant chemistry truthful of people helium asked her out.

“At the clip Maura lived successful Ireland, and Shane was moving his boxing gym successful London, and she was travelling a batch for enactment truthful it wasn’t casual to propulsion off.

“There were nary hard feelings erstwhile it ended.

“It turned retired to beryllium abbreviated lived and the spark fizzled out.”