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24th November 2017
08:36am GMT

"There have been rumours of huge sums being paid to the celebrities but they’re often highly exaggerated. "Katie Price got somewhere close, but Amir’s is slightly higher again. "He’s a huge name in sport and current after his recent marriage problems. "He has plenty to gain in improving his public image — but he also wasn’t doing it for peanuts. ITV have dug deep." Khan hit the headlines on the night he went into the jungle after an old tweet of his, in which he claimed that he'd never lower himself to an appearance on the show, resurfaced but was promptly deleted.AMIR TOOK THE SNAKE OUT OF THE HOLE IM DEAD ??#ImACeleb pic.twitter.com/ABvi9Th0ii
— Ali (@TvvitterGod1) November 20, 2017
The former unified light-welterweight world champion insists that he is not done with boxing and, while he is absolutely raking it in by I'm a Celeb standards, his £400,000 is still significantly less than his career-high $9 million which he received for his last bout, a brutal knockout defeat to Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez in 2016.
"I’m still a boxer, I’m training but there’s no fights on," Khan said, via the Mirror.
"So I thought, ‘I’ve got time to do this show, so why not?’
"I’m only going to be away from training and home a few weeks. I’ll use it as a detox at the same time."Explore more on these topics: