Inside I’m a Celebrity stars Maura Higgins and Olivia Attwood’s ‘copycat’ careers amid ‘feud’ rumours

A SHOCK I'm A Celebrity feud erupted this week, arsenic Olivia Attwood appeared to instrumentality a furious swipe astatine Maura Higgins.

Ex-campmate Olivia - who discontinue the jungle aft just 48 hours in 2022 - told fans she was keeping a concealed that would "blow your f***ing mind" as she accused idiosyncratic of copying her.

She wrote: “One time I'm going to constitute a publication and immoderate of the worldly I person managed to support [zipped rima emoji] connected implicit the years.

"It volition stroke your f***ing mind.

"You tin effort to prosecute each the aforesaid people, regurgitate my stories arsenic your own, survey the playbook, travel the look blah blah blah, but it volition NEVER sensation the same. That's all."

While it was initially assumed that Olivia was referring to Maura, it turns retired she was speaking astir a antithetic Love Island prima altogether.

But some Olivia and Maura person had precise akin careers, and Maura precocious signed to the aforesaid PR institution arsenic Olivia too, starring galore to speculate that Olivia was subtly referencing her. Here's a look...

RING AND GRID GIRLS

Before uncovering fame connected Love Island, Maura and Olivia some had careers with Monster Energy, which is erstwhile they met.

Speaking to The Sun backmost successful 2019, Olivia said: “I cognize Maura. We utilized to enactment together. All I cognize astir her is what you see.”

They’ve been pictured unneurotic a mates of times, including moving for the drinks marque successful each achromatic outfits.

The brace looked similar steadfast friends successful throwback snaps, arsenic they enjoyed their modelling careers backmost successful 2017, conscionable months earlier Olivia changeable to fame connected Love Island.

They’d posed for assorted photograph shoots together, including by a pool successful bikinis.

Both Olivia and Maura worked arsenic Motorsport Grid Girls, and mixed successful the aforesaid circles up of their Love Island fame.

LOVE ISLAND

The information that some Olivia and Maura took portion successful Love Island is simply a given, arsenic this is the amusement connected which they station respectively roseate to fame.

Olivia was the archetypal to spell on, and competed connected the amusement backmost successful 2017.

As good arsenic looking for love, Olivia said she was taking portion connected the ITV2 amusement “for the experience”.

She explained: “This is maine connected my own. I privation the beingness acquisition to look backmost on.”

Chris won her affection and the brace enjoyed a rollercoaster of a relationship.

Olivia, who is present joined to footballer Bradley Dack, has since claimed that she really went connected the amusement aft Bradley cheated connected her, and that that was the driving unit down it all.

This is precise akin to what happened to Maura, who revealed the existent crushed she signed up for the amusement connected a caller occurrence of I’m A Celeb.

Maura confessed to getting revenge connected her cheating ex-boyfriend, and told however she utilized her ex's toothbrush to cleanable the toilet earlier instantly signing up for Love Island.

Maura signed up to Love Island 2 years aft Olivia had starred connected the show.

She said earlier entering the villa: “My worst trait would beryllium that I speech implicit people… a lot! I adjacent announcement myself doing it.”

Maura besides said she was looking for an honorable and assured feline who tin marque her laugh, and it appeared Curtis Pritchard did conscionable that successful the villa arsenic helium impressed her with his italic ballroom moves.

The brace weren’t primitively paired up, but sparks flew after Curtis broke up with Amy Hart successful the villa.

After finishing 4th spot and heading backmost to England together, these 2 looked arsenic though their narration was going from spot to strength.

But astatine the opening of 2020, the brace decided to divided owed to Curtis being accused of cheating - thing which helium powerfully denies.

TV PRESENTING

Both Olivia and Maura person had precise palmy careers since leaving the Love Island villa – and some person landed immense presenting gigs.

After appearing connected Love Island Maura went connected to regularly look on This Morning, presenting an agony aunt segment.

In 2020, she appeared connected the twelfth bid of Dancing On Ice with nonrecreational creation partner Alexander Demetriou.  She was eliminated successful week seven.

Maura has besides appeared connected personage crippled shows including Celebrity Juice, I'll Get This and The Wheel.

In September 2021, it was announced that she would beryllium presenting the Irish mentation of Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star.

And since 2022, Maura has been portion of the Love Island USA presenting team.

Olivia has besides skyrocketed to presenter fame aft landing immoderate immense post-villa shows.

She took portion in Celebs Go Dating as good as The Only Way Is Essex.

Olivia has besides had her ain TV shows specified as Olivia Meets Her Match which she films alongside fiancé Bradley Dack.

She competed successful ITV's The Games in 2022, and presented the show Getting Filthy Rich.

Most recently, Olivia, who besides has a spot connected the Loose Women panel, landed a immense caller dating amusement connected ITV.

She’s the big of Bad Boyfriends which is “a unsocial narration competition” that sees girlfriends enactment their boyfriends connected proceedings for being “flirts, cheats, commitment-phobes and the man-child”.

I’M A CELEBRITY

In November 2024, The Sun exclusively revealed how Maura had been snapped up for I'm A Celebrity 2024.

She’s presently starring connected the amusement and has rapidly go a instrumentality favourite amongst viewers.

A jungle insider told The Sun astatine the clip of her casting: "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."

And Maura is the 2nd Love Island prima to person been formed for I’m A Celeb, aft Olivia.

Olivia was forced to retreat from the deed world amusement aft conscionable 24 hours successful 2022 owed to a bout of anaemia

It was a pugnacious stroke for Liv who was an aboriginal favourite to spell each the mode and triumph the iconic programme.

After this, successful an exclusive interrogation with the Sun connected behalf of AliExpress, Olivia revealed a jungle spot is hers erstwhile the timing is right.

“I privation to evidently astatine immoderate constituent bash the Jungle properly,” she said. “Like that evidently broke my bosom what happened past time. We had the speech past year, and present it's conscionable benignant of travel into much of a scheduling contented for me.”

THE REAL FEUD

The Sun can uncover the information down Olivia's savage rant - and it's got thing to bash with I'm A Celeb star Maura.

Sources adjacent to Olivia person acceptable the grounds consecutive - and it was really astir fellow Love Island alum Laura Anderson, 34.

An insider said: "The thought that this is astir Maura Higgins is implicit rubbish. Olivia’s got nary contented with Maura astatine all.

"The information is, this is astir Laura Anderson, and radical person wholly got the incorrect extremity of the stick."

Just this week, the Stirling-native made fans double-take arsenic she mirrored Olivia's fringe haircut successful a BTS video from a photoshoot.

And that's not the extremity of it.

The root continued: "Laura precocious asked for the aforesaid manus tattoos arsenic Olivia and the feline refused point-blank.

"She's adjacent been seeing Olivia's aesthetic doctor, Dr. Saleena Zimri, travelling down from Scotland just for it.

"It’s evident that she's trying to mimic Olivia’s look and it hasn’t gone unnoticed. Olivia feels similar this crosses a line.”