Boxing champion Joe Bugner has claimed that ITV’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! is fixed.

Joe claims that he had no chance of winning his task against Stuart Manning, as it involved reading letters using an ultraviolet light and he has bad eyesight.

Bugner told The Sun: “I’m convinced it was a fix. In fact I know it. Do I think they wanted to keep Stuart because of his lovey-dovey friendship with Sabrina? Well, of course I do. It’s obvious. It was rigged – absolutely!”

However, an ITV spokesman said: “I can categorically tell you that Joe’s eviction was not rigged.”

On whether a romance is brewing between Manning and Washinton Bugner said: “There is definitely something in the air. All they have to do is come out and say they like each other.

“The reason there has been no romance on the set is because there is no place you can hide. My advice to Stuart is this – Don’t be a coward. If you are going to move on a girl, then move.”