{"id":2031,"date":"2019-09-26T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T09:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2019-09-26T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T09:51:00","slug":"love-islands-maura-higgins-is-confirmed-for-dancing-on-ice-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/love-islands-maura-higgins-is-confirmed-for-dancing-on-ice-2020\/celebrity-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Island&#8217;s Maura Higgins is confirmed for Dancing On Ice 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Love Island&#8217;s Maura Higgins has been picked to take part on Dancing On Ice 2020. It was rumoured to be Amber Gill however the producers ended up picking Maura to take part in the show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since Love Island finished everyone wanted Maura back on their TV screens and now she is back on the screen with some ice skates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Dancing on Ice Twitter page first released teaser pics which showed a part of the contestants and after one close look fans realised one was Maura. They rushed to the comments to give their guess as Maura Higgins and were excited for her new TV role.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We can&#8217;t wait for this celeb to get their skates on&#8230; \u2728 <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DancingOnIce?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DancingOnIce<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LAbE5y7l2V\">pic.twitter.com\/LAbE5y7l2V<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014 Dancing On Ice (@dancingonice) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dancingonice\/status\/1174941554512842752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2019<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MauraHiggins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MauraHiggins<\/a> is taking part in dancing on ice this is amazing news\u263a\ufe0fThis is gonna be so good\ud83e\udd29I just love her !!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014 Gemma (@Gemma28680929) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gemma28680929\/status\/1175002600791519232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2019<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Definitely <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MauraHiggins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MauraHiggins<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m5SaiTPHEA\">pic.twitter.com\/m5SaiTPHEA<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014 THE DEVIL&#8217;S ADVOCATE (@polymorph2) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/polymorph2\/status\/1174941818170929153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2019<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Maura appeared live on\u00a0<em>This Morning\u00a0<\/em>to reveal the news. She said:<\/strong> &#8220;I&#8217;ve skated twice in my life just for fun, so I&#8217;ve no experience at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m up for the challenge. I&#8217;m more excited than scared. I&#8217;m brave and competitive so I think that will drive me.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since leaving Love Island Maura has found herself TV role of the agony aunt on This Morning and she secured a fashion deal with Boohoo.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">She had a great summer, but how will she handle the ice? \u2744\ufe0f Please welcome to the Class of 2020&#8230; <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MauraHiggins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MauraHiggins<\/a>! <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DancingOnIce?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DancingOnIce<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T1bc0Ayehq\">pic.twitter.com\/T1bc0Ayehq<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014 Dancing On Ice (@dancingonice) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dancingonice\/status\/1176450850157473793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2019<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love Island&#8217;s Maura Higgins has been picked to take part on Dancing On Ice 2020. It was rumoured to be Amber Gill however the producers ended up picking Maura to take part in the show. Since Love Island finished everyone wanted Maura back on their TV screens and now she is back on the screen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":2032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[859,330,467,715],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-dancing-on-ice","tag-itv","tag-love-island","tag-maura-higgins"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}