He has entertained his campmates with his anecdotes about how he run over his wife Sandra and accidentally destroyed her beloved flowerbeds with a jet-wash.
But Harry Redknapp left his pals in tears on Thursday night as he talked about his enduring love for his 71-year-old partner on I’m A Celebrity.
The football manager, also 71, who has been married to Sandra for 54 years, melted viewers hearts as he revealed he calls her 10 times a day and likened his relationship to ‘winning the lottery’.
Sweet: Harry Redknapp left his pals in tears on Thursday night as he talked about his enduring love for his 71-year-old partner on I’m A Celebrity
During a chat with Fleur East and Sair Khan, Harry, who has two sons with Sandra, said: ‘Even when I’m out I ring her 10 times a day. She’s my life. I’m a bit scared, getting a bit older. I love her too much, if anything happened it would just kill me.
‘We just get on so well, I only want to be with her. I can never wait to see her.’
‘Jamie (his son) says “you’ve won the lottery”.’
True love: The football manager, 71, who has been married to Sandra for 54 years, melted viewers hearts as he likened his relationship to ‘winning the lottery’
Soulmates: During a chat with Fleur East and Sair Khan, Harry, who has two sons with Sandra, said: ‘Even when I’m out I ring her 10 times a day. She’s my life’
The heartwarming conversation left viewers taking to Twitter in their droves to remark on his deep love for Sandra.
One wrote: ‘I want to have a relationship like Harry Redknapp and his wife!!’
‘How endearing #HarryRedknapp bet his wife is proud to have a husband who’s love for her is just beautiful’, with another fan chiming: ‘The way Harry Redknapp talked about his wife Sandra was just so beautiful and touching #truelove. I love Harry more and more every night what a guy.’
‘Harry Redknapp talking about his wife and how much he loves her made my heart melt. The don’t make men like that anymore,’ another added.
Touching: The heartwarming conversation left viewers taking to Twitter in their droves to remark on his deep love for Sandra
The couple met at a dance above London’s East End pub the Two Puddings more than 50 years ago, when Harry was just 16.
They went to have two sons; retired footballer Jamie, 45, and Mark, a model.
During his stint in the jungle Harry and John Barrowman, 51, struck up the ‘loveliest’ of friendships when the pair shared the stories of how they both met their partners.
The former Birmingham City manager revealed how his wife Sandra, picked him over his ‘good looking’ friend at the dance.
I’m A Celebrity: John Barrowman, 51, and Harry Redknapp, 71, have struck up the ‘loveliest’ of friendships as the pair shared the stories of how they both met their partners
Speaking to his camp-mate, Harry explained: ‘Me and my mate Macca, he was a goalkeeper for West Ham, saw these two lovely girls and I said to Macca shall we have a dance with those two.
‘Macca is a good looking geezer and I look back on it now and think Sandra must have seen us both coming over and thought “I hope I ain’t got him” (referring to himself) and she went for me, 54 years later we’re still going strong.’
The uncle of Chelsea legend Frank Lampard laughed: ‘And Macca ended up as an undertaker so really Sandra had the better deal in the long term.’
Talking in the Bush Telegraph, John said of his chat with the ex-footballer: ‘We needed to get wood for the campfire so Harry and I went down to collect some wood and we had one of the loveliest talks I’ve had in a long time.’
While Harry cheekily added: ‘While John was having dinner with Cher I was with Sandra at the Two Puddings, I know who got the best of the deal.’
Oh dear: And while their meeting was romantic, Harry left his campmates in stitches when he Redknapp recalled the ‘nightmare’ moment in 2017 he accidentally ran over his wife
Telling all: Harry Redknapp recalled the ‘nightmare’ moment he ran over his wife in 2017 during his first challenge on the new series of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here
Loving family: The couple went to have two sons; retired footballer Jamie, 45, (pictured with Harry) and Mark, a model
And while their meeting was romantic, Harry left his campmates in stitches when he recalled the ‘nightmare’ moment in 2017 he accidentally ran over his wife.
During his first challenge, which saw him in the passenger seat of a jeep, the sports legend said he used to consider himself ‘a good driver’ until the accident.
He said: ‘I used to think I was a good driver but I had a nightmare and ran over my wife one day.
‘She got out the car and I thought she’d crossed the toad and I pulled forward she fell into the road a bus stopped literally yards away and the most amazing part of the story probably, my grand-daughter is sitting on top of the bus and sees all of this. Unreal.’
‘Shall I turn the engine off so everyone can hear you scream’ said Nick as the football manager prepared to put his hand in the hell hole.
Sandra is the twin sister of footballer Frank Lampard’s late mother Patricia, who passed away in 2008.
Before Harry entered the jungle, he admitted being away from Sandra would be his biggest struggle.
He told The Sun: ‘That’s the biggest problem I have got. We do everything together.
‘I have been with Sandra for 54 years and I hate being away from her.’
Oops: During his first challenge, which saw him in the passenger seat of a jeep, the sports legend said he used to consider himself ‘a good driver’ until the accident
