Maura is with Curtis to stay on show – Amy

LOVE Island star Amy Hart has cast doubt over Maura Higgins’s relationship with Curtis Pritchard, saying that the Longford woman only needs him as a means to remain in the series.

Amy – who left the show last week after splitting from Curtis, a dancer on RTÉ’s Dancing With The Stars – said that her love rival Maura was forced to focus on her ex because there were no other suitable options in the villa.

Amy, 26, told ITV’s Loose Women: ‘I had said that, once I was out of a couple I won’t be here for much longer, because obviously to stay in Love Island you have to be in a couple.

‘And I think when it got down to it, there was George [Rains], Marvin [Brooks] and Curtis left. Obviously Marvin was out of the equation and Ovie [Soko] was out of the equation too, and George was out the equation, so Curtis was the best option for her at that time to stay in the villa.’

Amy said she did not initially warm to Maura because of how she had treated some of the other islanders, but that they later formed a friendship ‘because she is kind, caring, funny, and we’ve both travelled a lot so we bonded over that’. ‘So for her to then, yet again, move the goalposts to suit her situation, to decide we were never friends in the first place because she wanted to get with Curtis, obviously it’s not the most ideal thing,’ Amy added.

‘But I left on good terms with her because, I want all of my friends to be happy. For example, Molly-Mae [Hague], I utterly adore Molly-Mae, and it’s her 21st birthday next year, and I don’t want her to have to think, “Can I invite Amy, can I invite Maura, can I invite Curtis, is it going to be awkward?” I want her to enjoy herself with all her friends.’