Former world boxing champion Chris Eubank has told how he lost control at his violent father's funeral.

The Hove-based sportsman revealed his rags to riches life story during the Channel Five reality show, At Home With The Eubanks.

Eubank said he had intended to boycott the funeral in Jamaica because of his father's violence towards his mother.

But after being persuaded by her to attend, he got involved in a brawl with mourners, was escorted from the church by police and kept under armed guard until he was deported back to Britain.

He said he was in floods of tears throughout the service, even though he had not cried since he was 14.

Eubank told viewers how he was born in the rough inner-city borough of Dalston and grew up with his father and brothers and sisters after his mother left them to live in New York.

After being expelled from school 18 times in a year, he was sent to America to live with his mother.

Eubank said he asked his mother why she left him and she revealed his father was a womaniser who had given her a number of savage beatings.

He put his past behind him to become a world champion in 1990.