There wasn't a dry eye in the I’m A Celebrity campsite - or for many viewers - when Barry McGuigan openly grieved the loss of his daughter on the ITV show earlier this week. But for some watching at home, the pain went much deeper, as it brought back their own devastating memories. Brave Barry broke down as he described his daughter’s final days, when she passed away of bowel cancer aged 33, saying: "[She] suffered so much pain and said, ‘Mum I can’t hold on.
'” Parents who have lost a child themselves were left in shock, thrown back into their own grief, and wondering why there had been no warning from show producers, or presenters Ant and Dec , of what was to come. Lorna Cobbett, who lost her daughter Essie seven years ago, says: "My husband and I had settled down for our relaxed nightly guilty-pleasure viewing, then the conversation came out of nowhere, and suddenly I was in bits. As Barry fell to pieces in front of us on the TV, we did the same at home, and I am sure any other bereaved parent watching will have suffered the same fresh heartache.
” Triplet Essie passed away after life-limiting complications at birth meant she only survived to be 18 months. Lorna, who lives in West Sussex with her husband and the two triplets Roman and Eva, says: “There is a gaping hole from Essie and always will be, although you learn to get on with the day-to-day. "But grief, especially when involving the death of a child, is so harrowing and hits without warning at the best o.