How stunning Maura Higgins became TV’s top heartbreaker after romances with Strictly star, Prem striker & Hollywood hunk

SHE’S the perfectly beauteous brunette who seems to person each the astir eligible bachelors falling astatine her feet.

In fact, Maura Higgins is presently linked to TWO Strictly Come Dancing stars - having been seen getting precise cosy with some Pete Wicks and Kai Widdrington astatine the Pride of Britain Awards.

The 2 celeb men are not the archetypal to autumn implicit themselves trying to get adjacent to erstwhile Love Island prima Maura, arsenic she’s been linked to a drawstring of good-looking men, from a Premier League prima to adjacent a Hollywood hunk.

But what makes her specified a catch?

Psychologist and narration adept Jo Hemmings reveals: “Maura has 3 cardinal characteristics that marque her consistently desirable to men. 

“She’s beautiful, of course, but she besides has a uncommon chameleon-like quality, wherever she tin alteration her look – whether it’s a Hollywood hyper-glam benignant and abbreviated bob oregon a casual jeans and tee combo and inactive look stunning and authentic.” 

Jo continues: “She has self-deprecation by the lorry load.

"She tin poke amusive astatine herself and not instrumentality herself excessively seriously, nevertheless palmy she becomes.

“Just look astatine however she laughed disconnected the rumours of her and Pete, wearing a T-shirt saying 'We can't beryllium friends'!

“She besides has powerfulness – she is tenacious, determined and successful, managing to container the Love Island USA presenting job, arsenic good arsenic Selling Sunset prima Christine Quinn’s publicist - and yet nary of that makes her look self-important oregon arrogant.

“She inactive retains an important constituent of ‘Maura from Love Island’.”

We uncover the men who person fallen for Maura’s charm…

James Finnegan 

Before she changeable to fame connected Love Island successful 2019, Maura was engaged to Irish car salesman James Finnegan.

The 2 met successful schoolhouse arsenic teens and dated for 9 years, with him popping the question successful 2013, erstwhile Maura was 23.

But the puerility sweethearts called disconnected their engagement 4 years later, arsenic her modelling vocation took disconnected - and James was near heartbroken.

A root told The Sun: "She stayed with James arsenic she got bigger and amended astatine modelling and she did effort to marque it work.

"James was her archetypal emotion and her anchor for a portion but their narration was bound to endure arsenic she travelled much and followed her dreams.

"He didn't privation to divided and was near drowning his sorrows.”

Curtis Pritchard 

After entering the Love Island villa successful 2019, Maura was ne'er abbreviated of antheral attention.

But it was Curtis Pritchard who she was drawn to, and ended up successful 5th spot with him.

They stayed unneurotic for 8 months aft the show, but it wasn’t to be.

At first, their divided seemed amicable, but aft photos emerged of Curtis kissing dancer Amber Pierson, Maura seemed to beryllium angry.

She told Fabulous: "Everything happens for a crushed and, to beryllium honest, I privation him each the best. I'm successful a bully spot now. It’s not bully to see, but I’m fine."

She continued: "It’s benignant of a footwear successful the teeth that I’ve been cheated connected by my past 2 boyfriends, but I volition beryllium stronger for this." 

She besides tweeted, "The information ever comes retired successful the end."

Curtis has ever denied cheating.

Instead, helium was near “betrayed” by the adjacent narration Maura had…

Chris Taylor

Maura and Chris Taylor became adjacent friends aft appearing connected Love Island together, but they announced it had go much than that successful November 2020.

Curtis was near fuming, claiming he’d been “stabbed successful the back”.

 He told The Sun astatine the time: “I consciousness betrayed by them some — 2 radical I was precise adjacent to.

“When I saw the pictures, I’d beryllium lying if I said I didn’t consciousness hurt. I was upset. How agelong has this genuinely been going connected for?

“At the clip I was accused of cheating, but I ne'er did. I was ever faithful to Maura.

“If you look backmost connected everything — and I americium looking backmost connected it present — I’m like, ‘Curtis, each the signs were bloomin’ there, wherefore didn’t you realise then?’

“You conscionable don’t erstwhile you are successful that situation. You spot what they say. Now her existent colours are shown.

"They said they would ne'er ever beryllium together, and present they are.”

Just 4 months later, Chris and Maura split.

And Chris opened up connected their narration arsenic helium appeared connected Celebs Go Dating earlier this year.

He said: “I became friends with Maura, and then... yeah, like, we were mates for ages, and past it benignant of progressed into different things.”

Revealing helium loved her, Chris added helium didn’t judge the feelings were reciprocated.

"It sounds precise painful," said dating adept Anna Williamson, to which Chris replied: "It was."

Giovanni Pernice

Just 2 months aft she divided from Chris, Maura got unneurotic with axed Strictly prima Giovanni Pernice.

The mates teased their romance for weeks earlier yet going nationalist with a loved up representation connected Maura's Instagram captioned "I'm yours" successful July 2021.

They were besides pictured retired unneurotic successful Blackpool and Maura attended the motorboat nighttime of his show.

It each seemed to beryllium going truthful well, arsenic Maura and Giovanni opted to determination successful unneurotic to marque seeing each different astir his hectic Strictly docket easier.

A root adjacent claimed Gio had "never felt similar this astir anyone before".

But things appeared to rapidly crook sour, with Giovanni ending their narration conscionable 4 months later, leaving Maura "blind-sided".

Their divided came aft heart-to-heart talks, during which the dancer admitted he "isn't acceptable to settee down".

A root told The Sun astatine the time: "It's each implicit for now. Maura's perfectly devastated, it appears the Strictly curse has struck again.

“Maura didn’t spot this coming and is uncovering it precise hard to travel to presumption with. She genuinely thought Gio was the one.”

Maura removed each pictures of him from societal media aft their split.

Connor Wickham

In June 2022, Maura started seeing erstwhile Premier League striker Connor Wickham aft being introduced by friends.

The 2 softly dated for a fig of weeks, and adjacent enjoyed a vacation to Paris together.

But it was implicit a period later.

Asked successful an online Q&A if she was single, Maura replied: "This question conscionable ne'er stops coming up.

"Yes I'm single. I'm precise single. I couldn't beryllium much f***ing single.

"I whitethorn arsenic good conscionable spell into Love Island again."

Bobby Holland Hanton

Maura was archetypal linked to Chris Hemsworth’s assemblage treble Bobby Holland Hanton successful May 2023.

Unlike with her erstwhile relationships, the brace tried to support their narration retired of the nationalist eye.

But Maura confirmed they were dating connected the RTE Late Late Show astatine the extremity of 2023, telling big Patrick Kielty she was successful a “happy relationship”.

But successful March 2024, Mauran broke it off, arsenic she realised determination was nary aboriginal for them arsenic a couple.

A root told The Sun: "It was truly amusive for a while.

"But they're antithetic people. It's implicit betwixt them."

The mates besides unfollowed each different connected Instagram.

Kai Widdrington

Maura was spotted getting precise cosy with Strictly pro Kai astatine a Pride of Britain Awards afterparty connected Monday.

According to the Mirror, Kai was seen placing his manus connected Maura's limb portion planting a buss connected the backmost of her caput from behind. 

Onlookers besides seemingly witnessed Maura tickling Kai's chemoreceptor earlier twirling her around.

And it whitethorn precise good beryllium the Hollywood makeover Maura was fixed for the awards ceremonial that caught Kai’s eye.

One of the thousands of radical who liked the Irish beauty’s Instagram station of her look from the awards ceremonial was Kai.

Pete Wicks

Meanwhile, astatine different boozy celeb party, pursuing the awards, Maura and erstwhile TOWIE prima Pete were besides seen snogging - contempt continuously insisting they’re “just friends”.

The Mail said a instrumentality saw Maura "planting a buss connected Pete's chemoreceptor earlier the brace kissed connected the lips". 

A fewer weeks before, the brace were seen "all implicit each other", erstwhile Maura joined Pete and his Strictly co-stars successful a pub.

An onlooker told The Sun: "They were chatting to Pete's co-star Wynne Evans and it was precise wide they were much than conscionable friends.

"Things person intelligibly turned romanticist arsenic they were each implicit each other.

"At 1 constituent she ran her hands done his hairsbreadth nether his hat, and they were cuddling loads too.

"They looked truly cosy and comfy with each other."

The mates archetypal acceptable tongues wagging aft they were pictured snogging successful public successful the summer.

Last month, Maura poked amusive astatine the reports connected their narration status, successful a cheeky photograph with Pete’s champion mate Sam Thompson.

In the photo, Maura is wearing a T-shirt with The Sun’s exclusive photograph of her kissing Pete, on with the words "we can't beryllium friends" printed connected to it.

She besides took to TikTok to stock a video of her and Pete practising immoderate Strictly creation moves together.

Speaking connected Olivia Attwood’s So Right It’s Wrong podcast this week, Pete was precise coy astir his and Maura’s relationship.

He said: “She is lovely, maine and Maura person known each different for a precise agelong time.

"I deliberation Maura is large and we get connected truly good and we person done for a precise agelong time."