Where are Maura Higgins and Rev. Richard Coles in I'm A Celebrity? Absence from line-up explained

Love Island prima Maura Higgins and Richard Coles were some acceptable to look successful the latest bid of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! but are yet to beryllium seen successful the camp

The latest bid of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! has begun but 2 contestants are obscurity to beryllium seen!

Love Island legend Maura Higgins and erstwhile Strictly Come Dancing contestant Reverend Richard Coles were thought to beryllium heading Down Under to articulation the star-studded line-up, with Maura replacing her pal Molly-Mae Hague's ex Tommy Fury aft helium pulled retired of the amusement astatine the last-minute.

But arsenic the likes of Coleen Rooney, Danny Jones from McFly and GK Barry got acquainted with each different during tonight's opening show, Maura and Richard wherever obscurity to beryllium seen contempt it being each but officially confirmed that they are acceptable for a stint camping nether the stars successful Australia.

As the motorboat amusement began astatine 9pm, Maura seemingly hundreds of miles distant successful America as she enjoyed a influencer travel with Space NK. So what is happening and erstwhile volition ITV viewers get to spot Maura and Richard conscionable their celebrated campmates and instrumentality connected a Bushtucker proceedings oregon two.

It turns retired Maura is conscionable sneakily throwing fans disconnected the scent and is arriving successful campy astatine a aboriginal date, alongside Richard - akin to erstwhile Matt Hancock and Seann Walsh popped up a fewer days aft the motorboat amusement aired backmost successful 2022. "She volition beryllium arriving this week. The marque travel was ever portion of the docket arsenic Maura had agreed to it and it acceptable into her accomplishment dates for the jungle," a root told the MailOnline this weekend.

Last year, precocious entrants Tony Bellew and jockey Frankie Dettori made waves, with Tony reaching the last contempt joining the campy aboriginal successful the game. Being 1 of the aboriginal additions to the lineup whitethorn springiness Maura an borderline successful the combat for the rubric of Queen of the Jungle; she's presently pegged astatine 7/1 to win.

Not lone that, Maura has immoderate celebrated friends backing her to spell each the way. Former Love Island sensation Amy Hart, who shared the villa with Maura during the 2019 bid of the ITV2 dating show, thinks her erstwhile roomie has what it takes to triumph implicit the federation implicit the coming weeks.

Amy, 31, believes her Irish adjacent has the cleanable premix of qualities to triumph successful the Australian wilderness. Speaking exclusively to the Mirror, Amy revealed: "I'm truly excited to spot her [Maura] spell successful there. She's gonna beryllium truthful great. I deliberation she'll astir apt win. Yeah. People emotion her, don't they? And she's conscionable truthful funny. And I deliberation she'll propulsion herself into it. She doesn't bash things by half. I deliberation she'll propulsion herself into it, and radical volition emotion that."

On apical of her enactment for Maura, Amy besides reiterated her ain tendency to articulation successful connected the world TV action, careless of her caller nuptials and babe joy. After antecedently expressing her willingness to partake, she's undeterred by her caller beingness changes, maintaining a keenness connected tackling caller challenges: "I would emotion to bash thing that's a caller experience, thing that you wouldn't get anyplace else. So I deliberation I'm A Celebrity, Strictly, obviously, MasterChef, Celebrity Big Brother. I'm a large person of world TV. And evidently I'm not eligible for Love Island All Stars."

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