I’m A Celeb’s Tony Bellew wed childhood sweetheart after she left boxer besotted

Nov 19, 2023 at 6:27 PM
I’m A Celeb’s Tony Bellew wed childhood sweetheart after she left boxer besotted

Tony Bellew can be ready for a completely totally different combat when he enters the wilderness in Australia as the previous boxing champion joins the newest collection of ‘I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!’. The retired fighter can be heading Down Under with the likes of Nigel Farage and Marvin Humes in a bid to be topped king of the jungle, however he could have a troublesome time leaving his household behind.

He can be doing so with a heavy coronary heart after Bellew was hit with the heartbreaking news that his grandmother – on his mum’s aspect – had handed away simply days earlier than he was attributable to head into the jungle.

Posting on Instagram, Bellew penned a tribute to his beloved member of the family: “Goodnight Nan! I’ll love you forever girl… An amazing mother to me Mum in what I can only imagine was a difficult time. You carried me and my 3 brothers like we was yours! I can’t lie it was like having 2 Mums! You always put us straight and told us off! You was the boss of our house.”

Bellew, who fought the likes of Oleksandyr Usyk and beat David Haye twice in his glittering boxing profession, hung up his gloves for good in November 2018.

Who is Tony Bellew’s spouse?

Nowadays, he spends the vast majority of his time along with his spouse and their three kids after she warned him off stepping again into the ring.

Bellew is married to Rachael Roberts, whom he recognized since he was 9 years previous. He turned besotted together with her after bumping into her when he was 18 and dealing as a bouncer at a nightclub, in accordance with The Sun. 

The pair tied the knot in 2018 and have three kids collectively: Corey, Cobey and Carter.

Now 40, Bellew as soon as claimed his childhood sweetheart threatened to divorce him if he carried on on the lookout for one other combat. He stated: “If I don’t stop after this then she is going to divorce me and I have only been married four or five months.

“I used to be on my honeymoon and for one cause or one other I used to be watching Usyk beating up Gassiev on a cell phone and my spouse provides me a glance to say: ‘We are alleged to be having fun with our honeymoon, why are you watching that telephone?’

“But then he made the ultimate sin and said my name. I knew straight away, that was it. I had to get it done. When Eddie (Hearn) rang me and told me about the Usyk fight the wife looked at me and said: “Tell him to f*** off’.”

How a lot is Tony Bellew price?

According to Net Worth Portal, Bellew is a multi-millionaire with a fortune totalling £9.6million. The largest payout of his profession got here from his preliminary bout with David Haye, which was reported to be price £2.8m.

His combat with Usyk generated £15m because of an enormous variety of pay-per-view gross sales and gate receipts on the venue. The 35-year-old Liverpool fighter additionally had quite a few sponsorship offers in his profession with the likes of Door Sec, CNP Professional and Signature Bespoke clothes.

Now that he’s not competing and raking in thousands and thousands, Bellew typically seems on as a pundit on Sky Sports and DAZN to make a modest incomes.