David Haye has risked causing more controversy following his I'm A Celebrity...South Africa stint. The boxer, 45, faced significant backlash during his time on Ant and Dec's all-stars edition of the ITV reality survival show, which he first appeared on in 2012.
Before his well-documented fallout with Adam Thomas, in which he accused the Waterloo Road star of using his arthritis condition to avoid Bushtucker Trials, Haye made a series of sexist comments that left co-stars like Coronation Street legend Beverley Callard and Gogglebox's Scarlett Moffatt furious.
Telling his campmates about his girlfriend Sian, who works as a model, he said: "She's like tall, blue eyes. She's lovely. She's got the personality of a proper ugly bird." Despite Scarlett's suggestion he stop there, he continued: "Most ugly girls realise they're not pretty enough to... they gotta have a personality to banter and tell jokes, so people overlook the fact that they're not aesthetically amazing. That's what's called Ugly Duckling syndrome."
David has since stood by his Ugly Duckling theory numerous times, and did so again on Sunday afternoon, just two days after the live final. Taking to social media, he reposted a picture of his girlfriend posing in a mirror with swans, and another from a shoot titled 'Flights of Fancy.' Both Stories were soundtracked with the famous song inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen fable.
This is not the first time David has doubled down. During a recent appearance on This Morning, he told hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard: "Ugly girls have better personalities than traditionally beautiful supermodels. Everyone's looking for something to be offended by. If you get a hundred beautiful girls, a hundred ugly girls, put them in the dark. The ugly girls will have a better personality because they've had to develop it through necessity."
