Maura Higgins downplayed being picked for this year’s Dancing On Ice over other Love Islanders – including winner Amber Gill – to just plain old luck.
The Irish lass, who became a Love Island icon thanks to her blunt talk on sex and sexuality, will be getting her skates on for the celeb competition after being the first to be announced for the early 2020 series.
But since then she’s been dogged with rumours that Amber was initially meant to be taking part, but they dropped her when Maura revealed she was interested.
Speaking to Mirror Online, she said: ‘I know a lot of people went for castings for the show, but I was lucky enough to get it.’
She added she was ‘nervous but excited’ and will be using pro-dancer boyfriend Curtis Pritchard for his tips and tricks that could come in handy on the ice.
Whether the rumours about Maura being picked over Amber are true or not, it seems that they’re in a good place – with Amber totally not bothered.
Amber confirmed to The Sun that she was in talks for the show, but ultimately found it too much of a commitment to take on.
She also suggested that it wasn’t just Amber and Maura that were approached for the spot either.
‘I didn’t realise I had a place to lose, to be honest,’ she said.
‘I think a few islanders from this series went to ITV and had a chat about Dancing On Ice, but it’s a super-huge commitment and I went away from that meeting thinking it was probably a bit much, training constantly.
‘I went to see them, though, because I think you have got to find out what something is before you just say a flat-out no.’
To be fair, Amber definitely has more than enough to be getting on with – starting with a £1million deal with Miss Pap.
Dancing On Ice returns in January 2020 on ITV.
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