Molly Mae Hague's brutal comment as Love Island co-star Maura Higgins joins I'm A Celeb

Love Island prima Molly-Mae Hague tuned into I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! connected Thursday erstwhile her co-star Maura Higgins yet entered the jungle aft days of speculation

Love Island's Molly Mae Hague declared "the bid has begun" arsenic her co-star Maura Higgins yet entered I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! connected Thursday.

Molly Mae, 25, expressed her excitement astatine her pal's accomplishment successful a savage Instagram post, penning the 4 words alongside a representation of Maura, 33, connected the ITV show.

Both world stars changeable to fame during Love Island successful 2019, initially vying for heavyweight hunk Tommy Fury's heart. While Maura clinched 4th spot with Curtis Pritchard, Molly Mae secured 2nd spot alongside Tommy, and the duo aboriginal delighted fans by introducing their babe Bambi past year.

The mates parted ways this August aft a five-year romance. Molly informed followers done Instagram astir the extremity of their narration and chose not to divulge further details publicly.

There had been murmurs of Tommy making an quality successful this year’s I'm A Celebrity... Get Me retired of Here!, reports OK!. An insider was near gobsmacked by his abrupt determination to driblet out, telling The Sun: "Bosses are amazed Tommy has pulled retired of I'm A Celebrity astatine this precocious signifier arsenic it would person been a large accidental for him.

"Thankfully, execs already had immoderate large names waiting successful the wings truthful they'll beryllium looking astatine which ones acceptable champion into the line-up already booked truthful they tin present a genuinely large series."

Maura Higgins made her entranceway connected I'm A Celebrity during Thursday night's episode, joining Reverend Richard Coles successful the Jungle Junkyard. There could beryllium hostility successful the aerial arsenic she's poised for an uneasy catch-up with Barry McGuigan, having antecedently dated his lad Shane McGuigan.

Before becoming a household sanction connected ITV, Maura and Shane were an point for a year, their paths crossing erstwhile she was moving arsenic a ringing miss and helium was ringside commentating. Following successful his father's footsteps, 36-year-old Shane is present a respected boxing manager with his ain gym successful South West London, grooming up-and-comers similar Chantelle Cameron, George Groves, Carl Frampton, and Lee McGregor.

A root revealed to The Sun: "Maura has brains and beauty, and she rapidly caught Shane's eye." Maura and Shane's romance was reportedly short-lived owed to their hectic schedules and region betwixt them. According to the Express, a root revealed: "They went connected a fewer dates and had fun, but Maura lives successful Ireland, Shane is moving his palmy boxing gym successful London, and past she was travelling for enactment truthful it wasn't casual to propulsion off," adding: "There were nary hard feelings erstwhile it ended. It turned retired to beryllium abbreviated lived and the spark fizzled out."