'It's not going to be sexy Maura on I'm A Celeb'

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- CHRISTINE SMITH

She caused a splash as a bombshell on Love Island and Maura Higgins reckons she definitely won’t be the sexy late arrival in this year’s I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! as she insists that viewers will see other aspects of her personality.

Speaking to new ahead of her stint in the jungle, Maura warns that she doesn’t look good without fake tan on as she prepares to adopt the natural look on the show.

Asked if she would be packing plenty of bikinis to follow in the footsteps of Myleene Klass’ iconic shower scene, Maura, 34, says, “I won’t have my fake tan. Honestly, I look like a corpse without it. No one will need to look at that. It’s not going to be sexy Maura in the jungle. People are going to get a very different side. But it will be nice to strip back – and I am excited to have a phone detox.”

Maura has been at the centre of a romantic riddle in recent months with things seemingly hotting up between her and Strictly star Pete Wicks. They’ve been spotted snogging in the street and getting very cosy on several nights out together.

But when quizzed if she is dating him, just before she flies to Australia to enter camp, Maura insists she is single. “I mean, I date but I’m very much single,” she says. “And honestly, I just think the interest in my dating life is so boring. Everyone goes on dates, but then you’re like, ‘Maura’s in a relationship with this person, this person…’”

Asked whether she’d been on a date with Pete or not, she chuckles and says, “I mean, I’ve been on a date with many people.”