Rev Richard Coles and Maura Higgins are set to come into the camp

ITV I'm A Celebrity confirms TWO new arrivals as they threaten to shake up camp

20 Nov 2024 by Tom Bryant · Irish Mirror

Former Love Island star Maura Higgins and Reverand Richard Coles have confirmed they are entering the camp to shake things up.

The pair spoke to the Mirror to reveal they are arriving on the show on Thursday. Maura is in Australia after jetting straight into Australia following a boozy, blow-out in Las Vegas. "Honestly, I'm not good….I feel like I'm in The Hangover, I've even got the shakes,” she laughs.

“I have no clue what time it is, I don't know where I am. In fact, I've done the opposite of preparing myself [for the jungle]. I've tried not to think about it because when I think about it, I get so much anxiety.”

She will become only the second-ever Love Islander after Olivia Attwood to appear on the ITV show tomorrow …and is determined to fly the flag for the show’s former contestants. “I just don't want to let people down, because everyone's been DMing me, saying 'Oh my God, I hope you're doing the show.’” she explains. “I don't want to back out of the trials and be the biggest wimp in the camp.”

Maura Higgins is going into the jungle(Image: Tim Merry/Staff Photographer)

She says her mum was left flabbergasted when she told her she’d signed up for the Jungle. “She nearly died. She went: 'Maura, how are you going to do that?’ She is baffled as I'm more of an indoor girl…I like my hotels. I've never slept outside,” she says. She refused to camp even at festivals. “I'm always like, 'no, get me back to a hotel,’” she laughs.

So what can we expect when she enters the camp alongside Rev Richard Coles as one of the late arrivals? "It's been five years and I think I've matured, but I still have a potty mouth,” she explains. “I'm still the same kind of girl but I'm not going to go in and annihilate anyone. However, if someone gets on my nerves, I'm not really one to hold it in. I do speak my mind. If someone patronized me, I get really irritated. Like, that's one thing that really drives me mad.”

Maura: 'I don't know where I am.'(Image: Tim Merry/Staff Photographer)

Reverend Richard Coles says his preparation for the jungle entailed consuming 5000 calories a day on a cruise and avoiding ‘triggering’ nature documentaries. The star said: “I would like to say that I've been lowering my calorie intake to prepare for that, but that's not worked out so far. I've been trying not to look at nature programs about the horrors of Australia.”

The 62-year-old says he is worried about his snoring and “everybody wanting to kill me because I keep them awake at night.” He added: “I am also worried about finding a fear I didn't know I had yet and going to pieces on television in front of a koala or wombat or something.”

But Richard is also thrilled about being the first vicar in the jungle. ”I don't think there are many precedents for this, although, vicars have been going into jungles for years and years and years as missionaries.”

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