I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! fans were left ‘in tears’ after Danny Jones made an emotional confession to Barry McGuigan.

During Friday’s instalment of the ITV show, the celebrity campmates individually gave heartwarming speeches, and once the McFly star, 38, made his speech there was not a dry eye in the house.

Joining his campmates by the campfire seating area, Danny confessed: ‘Just like I was scared to do this speech, I was scared to do this show.’

‘I was exposed, and I couldn’t you know hide behind my guitar, and it’s been the most uplifting empowering experience I’ve ever had.’

He sweetly gestured to Barry, 63, with: ‘And I’ve also found a dad. I love you all.’

Barry looked emotional as the pair shared a sweet hug and later in the bush telegraph he confided: ‘It’s lovely that he feels that I am a fatherly figure.’

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I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! fans were left ‘in tears’ after Danny Jones made an emotional confession to Barry McGuigan

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During Friday’s instalment, the celebrity campmates individually gave heartwarming speeches. However, once the McFly star, 38, made his speech there was not a dry eye in the house

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During his speech, Danny confessed that he was ‘scared’ to do the show but so far it has been an ‘uplifting experience’ and claimed he has also ‘found a dad’ in Barry, 63

The Irish promoter and former professional boxer added: ‘He’s such a great kid, I hope I will be friends with him for the rest of my life.’

Fans then flocked to X, formerly Twitter, to reveal they were ‘sobbing’ and ‘couldn’t cope’ with how sweet Danny’s speech was.

One fan wrote: ‘Danny saying he has found a dad in Barry (crying emoji) #ImaCeleb’; ‘oh god danny and barry i am SOBBING #imaceleb’; ‘I can’t cope with Danny & Barry! (crying emoji’s)’

Earlier this week, Danny’s ‘estranged father’ lifted the lid on their decades-long rift for the first time, revealing he hasn’t seen the star for 18 years.

In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, Alan Jones, 72, believes a bitter divorce from Danny’s mother Kathy tarnished his relationship with his son, who he describes as a ‘lovely lad’ with a ‘heart of gold’.

He claims they had an ‘excellent’ bond throughout the McFly guitarist’s childhood in Bolton and he ‘dedicated his life’ to helping kick-start his successful music career.

The radio DJ, who now lives in Benidorm with his current wife Sharon, has yet to meet his six-year-old grandson Cooper, who Danny shares with his wife and former Miss England Georgia Horsley – but he is holding out hope that ‘one day it will happen’ and that he’ll ‘finally get that pint with his son’.

Danny has never visited his father in Spain, where he moved to in 2016, and Alan was not present at his daughter Vicky’s wedding last year. He was also not invited to Danny’s nuptials with Georgia in 2014.

Barry looked emotional as the pair shared a sweet hug and later in the bush telegraph he confided: ‘It’s lovely that he feels that I am a fatherly figure’

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The Irish promoter and former professional boxer added: ‘He’s such a great kid, I hope I will be friends with him for the rest of my life’ (Danny pictured)

Speaking from his radio station in L’Alfas del Pi, Alan explained how his marriage to Kathy went south when Danny and Vicky left home in the early 2000s.

Danny was in London after signing a record label alongside Tom Fletcher to form the band McFly – which would go on to sell more than 10 million records worldwide.

Alan said: ‘It should have been a time where the marriage got a bit closer, but it didn’t.’

‘I can’t explain why but it didn’t, so we had two very bad years, and in fact, Danny saw this with his sister and they wrote a song about it… and then I met Sharon and that was it.’

Danny was 19 when Alan walked out on the family in 2005 and has previously revealed how he sought therapy for anxiety over the incident.

He broke down in the jungle this week when discussing his condition with his campmates, revealing how he once had a panic attack during a live TV interview.

Alan met his now-wife as friends in 2004, a year before he left Danny, Kathy and Vicky.

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Fans then flocked to X, formerly Twitter , to reveal they were ‘sobbing’ and ‘couldn’t cope’ with how sweet Danny’s speech was

He recalled: ‘This sounds strange, but I used to hang out with a gang of girls who were worse than the blokes, and Sharon was part of that group.’

‘We used to go out and get drunk in the town, it was good fun, and me and Sharon got closer and closer.’

It was on the night of January 8, 2005, when their friendship became intimate while Danny and his McFly bandmates made a cameo on the BBC1 medical drama Casualty.

He explained: ‘It was the night that Danny was on Casualty, that was the night we actually got together.’

‘I was sitting in the pub watching on my own, then all the girls came in and we went into town afterwards and that was it.’

That same year, Alan and Kathy split, causing an ongoing rift in the family, and they still don’t speak.

He added: ‘It was quite a bitter divorce that dragged on far too long. It could have been resolved a good few thousand pounds earlier.’

And it’s Danny’s love for his mother that Alan feels is putting him off rebuilding bridges as he said: ‘I feel as though he’s painted himself into a corner and he doesn’t know how to get out.’

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Earlier this week, Danny’s ‘estranged father’ Alan Jones lifted the lid on their decades-long rift for the first time, revealing he hasn’t seen the I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! Star for 18 years

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In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, Alan, 72, believes a bitter divorce from Danny’s mother Kathy tarnished his relationship with his son (Danny pictured with his mother Kathy)

‘I think because he loves his mum so much he’s protected her, and I think any reunion with me, and this is only my opinion, would upset his mum, and I don’t think he wants to do that, and I understand that.’

However, Danny recently insisted that he believes it is his parent Alan’s job to make the first move and get in touch.

He told The Star on Sunday: ‘If you’re a dad then it’s your job to do it. It shouldn’t be my job to do it. It’s his. He decided to have me.’

Speaking on the White Wine Question Time podcast in 2022, Danny said he used to ‘idolise’ his father while growing up, but that it all changed when Alan left.

The guitarist said he stayed close to his mother and still gets ‘angry’ every Father’s Day.

Danny has never met Alan’s now-wife Sharon, a fact that neither side seems eager to change. However Alan said Sharon has always encouraged him to reach out to Danny and stay in contact.