Chris Eubank's beloved monster truck seems to have finally met its match.

The former boxing world champion recently boasted no tow lorries were big enough to take on his ten-wheel Peterbilt rig when parked illegally.

However, the Hove-based celebrity is now counting the cost after the seven-tonne truck was successfully towed to a car pound in west London.

The Westminster City Council parking attendants showed him as little mercy as Brighton and Hove City Council has promised, despite his pleas for special treatment.

Mr Eubank, 36, has claimed he should be allowed to park his 32ft truck for free wherever he wants in his home city because he is a tourist attraction.

He takes the truck on a tour of Brighton and Hove at least three times a week. He recently said: "I am performing a service to the community with this truck. People come to Brighton to see if they can see me.

"If a tow-away truck turns up I just laugh and shrug because the truck is far bigger than the tow-away lorry."

That was not the case when his black-and-chrome American truck was hauled away to a car pound in Park Lane on Monday.

However, it did prove too big to fit in the underground parking area so was left clamped on an entrance ramp.

Brighton and Hove City Council has been just as unimpressed by Mr Eubank's truck.

A council spokesman responded to his pleas for exemption from parking charges by insisting: "We would treat him the same as any other resident in Brighton and Hove."