I'm A Celeb's Maura Higgins looks wildly different in old snaps of wild ring girl days

Maura Higgins recovered fame connected Love Island but was brushing shoulders with celebrities agelong earlier that erstwhile she antecedently strutted her worldly arsenic a ringing miss for boxers

Maura Higgins has ne'er been 1 to fell among the shadows.

The I'm A Celebrity contestant, 34, roseate to fame connected ITV's world dating amusement Love Island successful 2019, with the likes of Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury, but she was nary alien to the spotlight anterior to that. The Islander worked arsenic a ringing miss for well-known nonrecreational boxers, including erstwhile heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua.

Maura was 1 of the grid girls erstwhile Joshua had his weigh-in with Russian Alexander Povetkin successful 2018, and she was besides pictured adjacent to 2012 Olympic golden medallist Luke Campbell arsenic helium prepared for his rematch against Yvan Mendy. The Irish presenter would regularly strut her worldly astatine Bellator MMA events and brushwood shoulders with celebs.

Not 1 to fell her airy nether a bushel, Maura told boxer Tommy - younger member of erstwhile heavyweight champion Tyson Fury - astir her ex-profession successful the villa. In a bid to impressment him, she said: "You're a boxer – you cognize I'm a ringing girl? I've lone been doing it similar 2 years. Joshua. His past 2 oregon 3 fights successful London."

While Maura and Tommy didn't enactment out, she has gone connected to day galore celebrated faces, including Love Island's Curtis Pritchard and Chris Taylor, Strictly Come Dancing's Giovanni Pernice and Bobby Holland Hanton, a stunt histrion for Chris Hemsworth. Most recently, she has sparked romance rumours with TOWIE's Pete Wicks.

The brace were spotted kissing astatine the Pride of Britain Awards past month and person hinted astatine however adjacent they are successful interviews. When asked by the Mirror if she had been connected a day with Pete earlier her I'm A Celeb debut, Maura said coyly: "I mean, I've been connected a day with galore people", adding that she is "very overmuch single" astatine the moment.

Maura added: "Honestly, I conscionable deliberation the involvement successful my dating beingness is truthful boring. People spell connected dates. Like everyone goes connected dates, but past it abruptly becomes that I americium successful a narration with this person, oregon that person."

The Irish prima has since spoken astir her emotion beingness successful the jungle, arsenic she told campmates Jane Moore and Danny Jones past nighttime however she erstwhile got revenge connected an unfaithful ex. Maura revealed she decided to spell connected Love Island aft abruptly breaking up with a fellow who she discovered had been sending messages to different women.

Sharing her brutal revenge plan, Maura explained: "I had a program and nary connection of a lie, erstwhile helium went to the gym the adjacent time I got his toothbrush and I filmed myself scrubbing successful the verges [of the toilet], helium had a dentist assignment that day!" She besides candidly told the pair: "I considered taking a dump [in his blistery tub]."

Maura was besides antecedently linked with the lad of Barry McGuigan - boxing manager Shane McGuigan, 36. Maura and Shane concisely dated successful May 2018 aft the brace met erstwhile she was booked arsenic a ringing miss for the David Haye vs Tony Bellew rematch. At the time, Shane was determination covering the match.

The brace dated for a abbreviated clip earlier splitting amicably, and are said to person remained friends. At the clip of their romance, a root told The Sun: "Maura has brains and quality and she rapidly caught Shane's eye. They got chatting and had instant chemistry truthful of people helium asked her out.

"At the clip Maura lived successful Ireland, and Shane was moving his boxing gym successful London, and she was travelling a batch for enactment truthful it wasn't casual to propulsion off." They added: "There were nary hard feelings erstwhile it ended. It turned retired to beryllium abbreviated lived and the spark fizzled out."