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I’m A Celeb’s Harry Redknapp feared heart attack before signing up to the show
I’M A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! star Harry Redknapp was worried about having a heart attack before going on the show and quitting football.
He has revealed the stress of management was causing him health problems.
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And if his team lost he would shun wife Sandra who he has gushed about during the ITV show, melting the hearts of viewers.
Harry, 71, said: "I was getting funny feelings, my body ached and my chest felt tight. I was really worried that I was going to give myself a heart attack, or a stroke.
"The stress levels that I must have put myself through that day were surely dangerous, and I have already had one heart scare. ‘How much longer can I keep going on like this?’ I thought. ‘How much longer can I do this to myself?’
“I did worry that something serious was about to happen. My blood pressure must have been through the roof.”
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Harry won over fans when he spoke about how much he loves his wife.
He told fellow campmates: “When you get older… I do love her too much, and if anything happened it would just kill me.
“We just get on so well. I only want to be with her.
“Saturday nights we would go out, have something to eat, I could never wait to see her, we’re great friends.
“If I’m out, I ring her about 10 times a day. It’s crazy.”
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But it’s not been all rosy for the couple who have been married for 51 years.
Harry says he wouldn't speak to her when his team at the time, Queens Park Rangers, lost.
Writing in new book Always Managing: My Autobiography, he said: "I can’t have been much fun to live with over those months, either. A lot of managers say they are lousy to be with on a Saturday if they have lost, but I cannot imagine too many would be worse than me.
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"It’s sad. Pathetic, really. The day we lost at Everton, I couldn’t even speak to Sandra when I got home. A couple of days later, when I can look back at it all rationally, I do think there is something wrong with me. Why am I like that? I get so low it is frightening.
"Losing produces a weird reaction in me, no doubt about that. I surrender all sense of perspective. I don’t want to talk to anyone, I don’t want to go out; I don’t want to mix, I can’t bring myself to socialise.
"I just want to go home, and sit, and stew. It’s just a horrible feeling. I know it’s terrible, I know it’s wrong, but I feel as if something really bad has happened in my life, as if someone has died.”
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