I'm A Celeb star Maura Higgins' awkward clash with Molly-Mae over Tommy Fury bombshell

After Love Islander Maura Higgins confessed her feelings for Tommy Fury, it seemed similar she and Molly-Mae could ne'er beryllium friends - but they soon proved everyone wrong

Maura Higgins and Molly-Mae are present champion friends, but they didn't ever spot eye-to-eye successful the Love Island villa.

It's harmless to accidental Maura ruffled her just stock of feathers erstwhile she burst onto our screens successful 2019, truthful we tin expect a full batch of play and amusive successful the jungle. Reality TV prima Maura and Reverend Richard Coles are the 2 caller faces joining I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! tonight.

One idiosyncratic guaranteed to beryllium tuning successful to spot Maura's stint Down Under is chap ex-Islander Molly-Mae Hague, who is 1 of her closest friends. The YouTuber and influencer, 25, precocious divided from her fiancé, boxer Tommy Fury, whom she met connected the ITV dating amusement with Maura 5 years ago.

Molly and Maura were some connected the aforesaid bid of Love Island and awkwardly clashed astir Tommy astatine the start. The Irish prima famously told Tommy she had 'fanny flutters' during their archetypal date, but helium yet chose to prosecute a romance with Molly instead. As the amusement went on, Molly and Maura became ace close.

After leaving the villa, the trio were spotted hanging retired unneurotic and Molly insisted it was each firmly successful the past. She wrote connected Instagram: "I've had truthful galore messages astir Maura being present and hanging retired with maine and Tommy and stuff, you person to recognize that it's truly ok."

"Me and Maura didn't adjacent cognize each different then, we weren't adjacent friends," she continued. "Like it's a antithetic communicative if it's your mate, Jesus. That's conscionable similar a nary go, but it's truly not deep. We weren't friends erstwhile that happened. But now, if she tries to spell for him now..."

Molly cleared up: "Tommy and Maura are similar member and sister now, I cognize that seems weird to immoderate of you guys... but for america 3 it's truly not. We're similar champion mates." On Love Island: What Happens Next, Molly sat down to ticker an unseen clip of Tommy flirting with Maura connected the show.

"Myself and Maura are virtually champion friends now, truthful this is not gonna beryllium amusive to watch. I'm dreading this a lot," she said. A clip past showed Maura asking Tommy: "Does she crook you connected similar I do?" It came aft Tommy admitted helium was "hugely attracted" to her. Molly awkwardly laughed it off.

When Tommy and Molly got engaged past year, Maura was 1 of the archetypal to stock their announcement representation connected her communicative with the caption: "SCREEEEAMING". And aft Molly and Tommy announced their daze divided successful August, Maura took to Instagram to remark connected her champion friend's solo picture, "LOVE & ADORE YOU."

Just weeks later, Molly launched her covering brand, Maebe, and Maura attended the VIP motorboat dinner, sharing connected her story: "Proud of you my angel." Now, Molly has returned the favour, penning a remark connected Maura's I'm A Celeb announcement that simply reads "Queen", accompanied by a emotion bosom emoji.

Speaking to the Mirror astir joining the show, Maura shared: "It's been 5 years [since Love Island] and I deliberation I've matured, but I inactive person a potty mouth. I'm inactive the aforesaid benignant of miss but I'm not going to spell successful and annihilate anyone. However, if idiosyncratic gets connected my nerves, I'm not truly 1 to clasp it in. I bash talk my mind. If idiosyncratic patronized me, I get truly irritated. Like, that's 1 happening that truly drives maine mad."

• I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! airs each nighttime astatine 9PM connected ITV1 and ITV X.