Love Island favourite Maura Higgins may have missed out on the prize money in this year’s final, but she’s already landed her first TV role since leaving the villa.
Just days after arriving home after weeks in Mallorca filming Love Island, Maura has confirmed that she’s joined the team of This Morning, where she’ll be dishing out advice to viewers in a live phone-in segment.
She’ll also be appearing in her own recurring feature called Maura Than Meets The Eye, in which she’ll be travelling around the UK to take on a variety of challenges (quite what “Maura Than Meets The Eye” has to do with challenges we’re not sure, but who are we to turn our noses up at a 10/10 pun?).
Maura told The Mirror: “I’m getting flutters about joining This Morning. I can’t believe it. It’s beyond my wildest dreams.
“I’ve grown up watching Phillip, Holly, Eamonn, Ruth and the team. Mad to think I’m now part of that iconic family. Can’t wait to crack on.”
She’ll be telling presenters Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford all about her new TV role when she appears on This Morning on Monday.
A number of Maura’s co-stars have already landed their own TV roles, with Amy Hart having already appeared on Loose Women on more than one occasion, once as a guest panellist and later to give presenter Coleen Nolan a Love Island makeover.
It’s also been revealed that Curtis Pritchard will appear as a dance coach on the new series of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, though this was filmed prior to him joining the line-up of Love Island.
Earlier this week, Amber Gill and Greg O’Shea were crowned this year’s Love Island winners, beating runners up Tommy Fury and Molly-Mae Hague.
The sixth series of Love Island will air on ITV2 in January, while the seventh will follow shortly afterwards in the usual summer slot.