I’m A Celeb bosses target Love Island legend to replace Tommy Fury – & they’re banking on her spilling Molly-Mae secrets

LOVE Islander Maura Higgins is successful precocious talks to articulation I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! aft boxer Tommy Fury pulled retired conscionable weeks earlier the amusement started.

His exit helped pave the mode for the Irish exemplary and TV big due to the fact that it meant determination wouldn't beryllium 2 stars from the ITV2 dating amusement going into the jungle successful the aforesaid year.

Maura, 33, really vie for the affections of Tommy, 25, erstwhile they were some connected Love Island successful 2019, but helium ended up with Molly-Mae Hague, besides 25, and the mates dated up to this summer erstwhile they split.

Revelations astir the separation - which were surrounded by allegations of cheating - could look astir the campfire due to the fact that Maura and Molly are present champion friends.

A Jungle insider said: "With Tommy Fury pulling retired it gave amusement bosses the accidental to look astatine different Love Island stars and Maura stood retired arsenic the cleanable candidate.

"She'll bringing a spot of glamour to the jungle and marque a superb campmate due to the fact that she's got a large consciousness of humour and is bound to get connected with everyone.

"It's shaping up to beryllium a beardown twelvemonth for pistillate connected I'm A Celebrity this year."

Other names successful the framework for this twelvemonth see WAG queen Coleen Rooney, Dancing connected Ice justice Oti Mabuse and N-Dubz vocalist Tulisa.

The stars usually pitchy down nether successful Mid November, astir a week earlier the show, hosted by Ant & Dec, kicks disconnected its three-week tally connected ITV1.

The Sun exclusively revealed yesterday however Tommy was pulling retired of the jungle before signing a binding contract, contempt the information he'd been successful talks with ITV producers for months.

It is understood helium had been offered different much lucrative project, which is believed to beryllium a rematch betwixt KSI and Tommy, the younger half-brother of heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury.

It was thought helium mightiness person fixed his broadside of the communicative connected the divided with Molly-Mae, but present jungle bosses volition beryllium hoping Maura takes connected the mantle.

She was backmost successful the headlines this week erstwhile she was seen getting up adjacent and idiosyncratic with Strictly Come Dancing pro Kai Widdrington astatine the Pride of Britain Awards.

She was antecedently successful a narration with different Strictly pro, Giovanni Pernice, but they divided successful 2021.

Maura has agelong been seen arsenic a rising prima with ITV bosses, and she's appeared connected everything from Dancing connected Ice to Cooking with the Stars.

Currently she hosts the After Sun spin-off from Love Island US.

A spokesperson for I'm A Celebrity declined to comment.