Love Island pals Maura Higgins and Chris Taylor enjoy cosy weekend locked down at her home
LOVE Island pals Maura Higgins and Chris Taylor enjoyed a cosy weekend locked down at her home.
Chris left on Monday in the same clothes he had worn two days earlier.
An onlooker said: “Chris looked bleary-eyed but he definitely had a spring in his step. He skipped to his car.”
The pair’s closeness has had co-stars buzzing for months.
Last Saturday they met pals Jordan Hames, Michael Griffiths and Danny Williams at Sheesh restaurant in Chigwell, Essex.
Maura and Chris, both 29, left in his Merc and headed to her flat nearby.
He was in a Hera T-shirt, shorts and headband — just as he would be on Monday.
A separate source told how the pair were seen and heard on Maura’s patio last Sunday.
The source said: “They were there hours, chatting away.”
Chris coupled up with Harley Brash in last July’s fifth series but they split soon after.
Irish beauty Maura and Curtis Pritchard came fourth and were an item until she ended it this March.
In September, Chris visited Maura for a night out in Dublin. Days later the pair looked close at the TV Choice Awards. And he often visited her on Dancing On Ice, where she was linked to skate partner Alex Demetriou.
Last month, Chris, who has a pad in London, posted a video of Maura dancing in lingerie — with shots cut in of him in a jokey outfit.
Maura replied: “I couldn’t wait for this.”
A fan wrote: “Just kiss, already.”
On Wednesday, she posed in a Minnie Mouse dressing gown on Instagram and posted: “Just need to find a Mickey.”
A source added: “Chris seems besotted. And now a lot of people who know them won’t be shocked that it seems to have grown into something more.”
Maura’s spokesman insisted their relationship was platonic.
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