I’m A Celebrity star Amir Khan will tell his fellow jungle-dwellers in Tuesday’s episode (April 25) that he blew £1million on his lavish wedding before inviting 4,000 people to a follow-up party – and he didn’t enjoy a minute of it.
Amir, 36, got hitched to Faryal Makhdoom back in 2013 in a posh ceremony at New York’s famous Waldorf Astoria.
There were 300 guests at that ceremony, but thousands more were invited to the follow-up bash back in the UK in Bolton, where the former boxing champ lives.
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That party included a host of sports stars and celebs as well as masses of members of his family.
(Image: Amir Khan)
Soccer aces Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand were on the guest list, as was boxer Ricky Hatton.
But Amir will tell his jungle campmates in the upcoming episode: “Family, friends – everyone likes to be there.
“If you call one family member, they want to bring their auntie, uncle, cousin, sister. The ice-cream van man got an invitation as well!
“I was not in charge of the invitations. I didn’t get to enjoy it, to be honest with you. There were that many people there.
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“It was like a massive gala, like a big event. That’s why now, if I was ever to do it again, it would be me and the wife, and keep it really simple.”
The huge party included Amir performing a Bollywood dance with his ushers.
One of his fellow contestants in the ITV jungle show takes a dim view of the whole thing, with Fatima Whitbread saying: “What a waste of money.”
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At the wedding in New York a decade ago, Amir wore an Asian Sherwani coat and turban and carried a sword.
At the time, his younger brother Haroon tweeted: “Amazing wedding, a night never to forget.”
Bolton Wanderers fan Amir announced in 2017 that he and Faryal – who have two children – were splitting up, but a few months later it emerged that the pair had reconciled.
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