When boxer Anthony Mundine, 42, became the second contestant to quit I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here in as many weeks, Australia breathed a sigh of relief.
Maybe, just maybe, viewers thought, we would be given a rest from his homophobic and misogynistic views and go back to enjoying footage of celebrities sleeping in the open air, eating bug guts and walking on high tightropes.
But, within moments of the professional boxer and former rugby league player leaving the camp, he was making some of his most controversial statements yet, appearing to support the use of the death penalty to “deter homosexuality”.
