THE racing superbike champion crowned King of the Jungle showed luck was tipped his way when he won a new TV gameshow for charity.

Blackburn-born Carl Fogarty appeared on ITV1’s celebrity Tipping Point at the weekend alongside chef Marco Pierre White and Coronation Street star Brooke Vincent.

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Hosted by Ben Shephard, the celebs had to answer questions to get the chance to win cash for their chosen charities.

The game is based on the old arcade game ‘Penny Falls’.

Carl won £20,000 for children’s charity NSPCC, which helps children who’ve been abused to rebuild their lives, protect children at risk, and find the best ways of preventing child abuse from ever happening.

He said: “On the way down to the show my wife Michaela pointed out that it was about time I won one of these shows.

“I’m not the smartest when it comes to general knowledge so I was a bit nervous, especially because I have never really recovered from my first time on the Weakest Link when I was off first.

“But I think I got around 70 per cent of my questions right.

“To win so much money for my chosen charity, the NSPCC, which I have supported for 15 years, was like standing on the top step of the podium again.

“It was such a great feeling to know how much good that money will be put to.”

The I’m Celebrity Get Me Out of Here contestant helped raise more than £115,000 earlier this year for the NSPCC, as part of the Foggy v Quickenden Iceland Trek.

He and former X Factor and I’m Celebrity contestant Jake Quickenden went head to head with a team of fellow NSPCC fundraisers to trek through Iceland.

Rachel Walker of the NSPCC said: “Foggy has raised an incredible amount of money for the NSPCC over the last 15 years and that money has helped vulnerable children all across the UK.“He really is our little star. We can’t thank the generosity of our fundraisers enough, the money really does make a difference, especially over Christmas.

“There are so many ways you can donate or raise money for the NSPCC, one of them is by buying a little star on Oxford Street via visiting www.nspcc-little-stars.org.uk.”