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Harry Redknapp took his most surprising career move to date by swapping the dugout for the jungle by joining the latest series of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.

The former football boss, 71, has managed seven English clubs, during which he cultivated a reputation as one of the game's primary wheeler-deals, but surely no-one saw this switch coming.

Redknapp has managed Bournemouth, West Ham, Portsmouth, Southampton, Tottenham, QPR and Birmingham City, as well as the Jordan national team.

Prior to that he played as a midfielder for six different clubs, most notably West Ham and Bournemouth in the 1960s and 70s.

But Redknapp is not just known for his on-field antics; he has a remarkably noticeable showbiz side as well.

Here is all you need to know about Redknapp's life...

Wife

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Redknapp has been married to wife Sandra for 51 years, first meeting her at a pub in Stratford when he was 17 and she was working at a hairdressers.

He has said that she wouldn't often come to watch him play football as "she worked Saturdays anyway", and later in life would only listen to games on the radio or watch on TV when he was managing.

Sandra has been involved in charity fundraising and a south coast development company with Harry.

Redknapp infamously told the press that "his missus would have scored that one" after his Tottenham forward Darren Bent missed a late chance in a 1-1 draw with Portsmouth in January 2009.

In 2016, the couple were involved in a nasty car accident when Sandra's coat caught in Harry's Range Rover and she was dragged under the vehicle, injuring her foot badly.

House

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Redknapp bought a £4m property in the exclusive Sandbanks peninsula in Poole, Dorset in 2015, moving just around the corner from his previous home.

The modern beachside property boasts five bedrooms, all of which include an ensuite bathroom, and also has a lift which was crucial for Redknapp at the time as he was recovering from knee surgery.

Once valued at £9.5million, the property backs onto the beach and presents visitors with a stunning view of the Isle of Wight.

Dog

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Yes, his dog.

In January 2012, Redknapp was the subject of a tax case in which a court heard that he received almost £200,000 from former Portsmouth chairman Milan Mandaric, with the many paid into a Monaco-based bank account named after one of his dogs.

The "Rosie 47" account referenced both Redknapp's pet and the year of his birth, with the prosecution alleging that the manager made money from player transfers out of the club, most notably the £4.5m sale of Peter Crouch to Aston Villa in 2002.

Redknapp and Mandaric were charged with two counts of cheating the public revenue.

The trial at Southwark Crown Court lasted two weeks, after which the pair were found not guilty on both counts.

Jamie Redknapp

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Harry's son Jamie managed to outdo his father's success on the pitch, winning 17 caps for England.

Harry gave Jamie, a midfielder, his senior debut at the age of 16 at Bournemouth in 1989, and after just 13 league appearances for the south coast club he was spotted by Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish, who paid £350,000 to take him to Anfield in 1991.

He would stay on Merseyside for 11 years, become one of the most recognisable faces in the Premier League as the new division was formed, and frequently coming up against his Dad's sides.

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After a spell at Tottenham, Redknapp Jnr would team up with his father at Southampton in 2005, but the pair were unable to save the Saints from relegation.

Jamie married Louise Nurding, formerly of girl band Eternal, in 1998.

They have two sons, Charles William and Beau Henry, with Louise revealing that the latter's second name is a tribute to Harry, who was born Henry James Redknapp in 1947. The couple divorced in 2017 .

Jamie works as a pundit for Sky Sports, and serves as a team captain for Sky One's popular sports quiz A League Of Their Own.

Frank Lampard

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Harry Redknapp is also related to former Chelsea and England midfielder Frank Lampard, who is these days managing Championship side Derby County.

Lampard's father, Frank Snr, was a teammate of Harry's at West Ham, and he married Sandra's sister Pat having met her not long after Harry met Sandra.

"Neither of the girls had ever seen a game of football, and it was just an absolute coincidence that a couple of weeks after I’d started going out with Sandra, he met Pat," Redknapp wrote in his 2013 book Always Managing .

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"It was a bit strange, becoming related to a teammate, but it was great because we were marrying into a lovely family.

"Their dad was a great big guy and a lovely man, but he was a foreman on the docks and you’d never have wanted to upset him.

"When we took the girls home, if we stayed longer than 10 minutes, he’d bang on the floor and that was it, time to go."

Wheeler Dealer

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Over the years Redknapp came to develop a reputation as a 'wheeler dealer' within football due to his almost constant buying and selling of players, although he says he doesn't like that tag.

He hit out at Sky Sports reporter Rob Palmer when he put the term to him during an interview in 2010, saying: “I’m not a f***ing wheeler and dealer, don’t even, don’t say that, I’m a football manager.”

Viewers of Sky Sports News' coverage of transfer deadline day would come to claim that the sight of Redknapp rolling down his car window to talk to reporters about the latest transfer deal he was involved in was a staple of the day.

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He signed 17 players on January deadline days alone, including bringing Robbie Keane back to Tottenham from Liverpool, signing Jermain Defoe for Portsmouth and signing five players for QPR in 2014.

His methods were often successful though, with his career highlights being winning the FA Cup with Portsmouth in 2008 and leading Tottenham into the Champions League quarter-finals in 2011.