Anthony Mundine unleashes shocking anti-gay rant
After dramatically quitting I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! last night, controversial boxer Anthony Mundine has unleashed an offensive rant about homosexuality.
Lasting less than two weeks in the South African jungle before calling it quits, Mundine doubled-down on his previously incendiary anti-gay remarks and appeared to support the death penalty for gay people in his post-exit interview with News Corp’s Jonathon Moran.
Using Islam and Aboriginal culture as an example, the practising Muslim said capital punishment would “deter” people from homosexuality.
“If we were to live in a society, just like in Aboriginal culture, that homosexuality is forbidden and you do it and the consequences are capital punishment or death, you think you are going to do it? Or think twice about doing it?” he said.
He also claimed that gay people shouldn’t be allowed to be on television, in case it influences children to become gay.
“They are not going to be happy until they have primary school kids being gay,” he said. “I talk the truth. It is the system. I don’t care if you are gay or not, it doesn’t worry me because the creator will judge you later. If you are going to be gay, do it behind closed doors, that is how it used to be in the olden days.”
Mundine was asked to clarify if he thought gay people should be executed.
“The paedophiles mainly, hang them suckers and let’s see if they have the balls to do it again,” he said.
Before entering the jungle, Mundine made headlines for controversially stating his opposition to homosexuality, contraception and abortion.
The 42-year-old sensationally quit the reality show this week, claiming that he was missing his family.
In the episode aired last night, Mundine confided to actress Kerry Armstrong, telling her he was “struggling” and missing his children.
“But do you think, the thing is, they wouldn’t want you to give up, because that would break their hearts?” Armstrong said.
“Look me deep in the eyes, I’m going to tell you something. You will never live it down if you leave here. You will be called a quitter by Australia,” she continued.
“It’s not about quitting,” replied Mundine.
“I’ve never experienced something like this, you know what I mean?”
After the viper room challenge with boxing nemesis Danny Green, Mundine’s mind was made up and he bid farewell to his shocked campmates in a surprisingly emotional speech.
“I made good friends here and I come in here to let people see the real Anthony Mundine, the real me, to know who I really am as a man. I am not the guy they perceive me to be,” he said, before departing the jungle for good.