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I’m a Celeb… viewers predict one thing of a clumsy encounter between Maura Higgins and her new campmate.

The most recent season of the ITV sequence is nicely underway with late arrivals Higgins and Reverend Richard Coles coming into the jungle on Thursday’s episode (21 November), which led to the very best one-liner of the sequence but.

The Love Island star, 33, and priest, 62, are becoming a member of current campmates together with Coleen Rooney, GK Barry,  Tulisa Contostavlos, Alan Halsall, and Oti Mabuse.

For now, Higgins and Coles have been stored principally separate from the opposite stars, who’re staying in the principle camp. The latecomers have been assigned luxurious lodging within the misleadingly named “Jungle Junkyard”.

Viewers, although, are getting ready for what may very well be a clumsy encounter between Higgins and one among her fellow campmates after recalling a shocking connection between the 2 stars.

Higgins was romantically concerned with Barry McGuigan’s son, Shane, earlier than she appeared on Love Island in 2019.

Shane, 36, has adopted within the footsteps of his dad and works as boxing coach in south west London, the place he owns a health club. He has skilled various up-and-coming boxers together with Lee McGregor and Chantelle Cameron.

Higgins and Shane first met in 2018 at a David Haye vs Tony Bellew rematch at which the fact TV star was working as a hoop lady and Shane was commentating for a radio present.

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It’s not identified how lengthy the pair dated, however reviews declare that they have been a pair for a couple of yr earlier than calling it quits.

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They reportedly discovered it troublesome to proceed the connection long-distance provided that Higgins was dwelling in Eire on the time and Shane was in London.

Whether or not Higgins ever met Barry throughout their relationship isn’t identified, although the pair are sure to deal with the scenario after they lastly meet on I’m a Celeb…

Shane is now engaged to singer-songwriter Taylor West. The pair share two sons, Finley and Calean, who have been born in 2023 and 2024, respectively.

In an earlier episode of I’m a Celeb, McGuigan opened up concerning the grief he skilled after the dying of his daughter.

Requested whether or not he goes to church, the featherweight boxing legend mentioned: “I used to go to church rather a lot however after my daughter… you understand, not a lot.”

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“She had leukaemia, after I was making The Boxer with Daniel Day-Lewis, three weeks from the top I needed to go away as a result of she’d been recognized with leukaemia,” he recalled in tears.

“They thought she wasn’t going to get higher however she fought again and he or she gained it. She had two years of chemo.”

McGuigan’s solely daughter Danika died in July 2019, aged 33. She recovered from leukaemia after being recognized on the age of 11, however she was recognized with bowel most cancers in 2019, and died inside a month.

Hours after the second aired on TV, Shane posted on Instagram to thank the campmates for “supporting” his father. “We recognize it immensely,” he mentioned.

New episodes of I’m A Celeb… Get Me Out Of Right here! air on ITV1 and ITVX each evening at 9pm.

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