'I met hungover Maura Higgins 24 hours before I’m a Celeb - campmates need to beware'

Head of Showbiz Tom Bryant, who is successful Australia, for I'm a Celebrity reflects connected a riotous gathering with Maura Higgins - and wherefore she tin win

After a 48-hour booze bender, astir radical would astir apt privation to enactment successful furniture with the duvet implicit their head.

But not new I'm a Celeb star Maura Higgins.

Just hours aft landing successful Australia from Las Vegas earlier this week, the erstwhile Love Island prima was tasked with speaking to the property to beforehand her upcoming Jungle stint.

“Honestly, I'm not good….I consciousness similar I'm successful The Hangover, I've adjacent got the shakes,” is the archetypal happening she says arsenic she sits down.

And aft a riotously comic 20minutes successful her company, I came distant with 1 overriding impression.

Namely, Maura is simply a existent contender erstwhile it comes to being crowned the Queen of the Jungle.

Despite being hideously hungover, she was scintillating company: quick-witted, aforesaid deprecating and with bags of charisma.

Viewers person seen glimpses of this already successful the abbreviated clip she has been on-screen. Her chemistry with Rev Richard Coles is accelerated becoming a item of the show.

But I besides detected an inner-steel that doesn’t endure fools gladly.

After all, who tin hide the fireworks surrounding her Love Island quality backmost successful 2019.

“It's been 5 years and I deliberation I've matured, but I inactive person a potty mouth,” she told me, arsenic she reflected connected her debut TV appearance.

“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.”

Currently the campy is simply a harmonious one. After all, we’re lone 1 week in. But arsenic hunger and tiredness sets in… could outspoken Maura beryllium the catalyst for the archetypal cracks to form.

Campmates, you’ve been warned…

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