I’m a Celebrity fans are already convinced they want Maura Higgins to win after being left in stitches of a Reverence Richard Coles one-liner. The TV personalities entered the ITV jungle i n Thursday night’s episode (21 November) ahead of what viewers are predicting will be an awkward reunion with a fellow campmate . Higgins and Coles have become an inadvertent double act after producers kept them separate from the other stars, who are currently in the main camp.
The latecomers have been assigned luxury accommodation. However, the pair are sharing a double bed, with Higgins addressing this fact during a chat with producers in the Bush Telegraph. During the latest episode, the former Love Island star said: “I never thought I’d see the day I’m about to sleep with a vicar – but my friends wouldn’t be shocked.
” Viewers were left in hysterics over Higgins’s comment, with one writing on X/Twitter: “Give her the crown.” Others, predicting Higgins was paid a large amount of money to join the ITV series, suggested she was “worth every penny”, with one viewer calling her “brilliant”, stating: “I’m literally laughing out loud.” Many concluded that Higgins and Coles was the adrenaline shot needed for the otherwise uneventful series, which has seen Radio 1 DJ Dean McCullough been voted to take part in numerous Bushtucker Trials by the public.
This has led to outcry from a contingent of fans, who think producers should create a role whereby people can’.
