Harry Redknapp Almost Quit I'm A Celeb For This Heartbreaking Reason

Updated on December 11, 2018 at 8:01 PM

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Harry Redknapp won this year's series of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! by a significant margin as he beat runner-up Emily Atack to the jungle crown with a massive 68.95% of the votes. But the former football manager very nearly quit the jungle before he'd even set foot in camp when his beloved wife Sandra was hospitalised just before he was due to fly to Australia.

Harry Redknapp Almost Quit I'm A Celeb For This Heartbreaking Reason

Without a doubt, one of the highlights of this year's series of I'm A Celeb has been listening to Harry Redknapp speak about his wife Sandra.

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They may have been married for over 50 years, but Harry and Sandra are clearly still completely smitten with each other and Harry was moved to tears when he finally got to see his wife as she arrived for a surprise visit to camp towards the end of his jungle stint.

However, Harry has now revealed that there was another reason Sandra's sudden appearance made him so emotional...

Check out the video above to see why Harry was so overcome to see his wife... and why he almost didn't enter the jungle at all!