Fans were stunned to see Maura Higgins using an old sock to exfoliate in the I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here jungle following her gruesome Bushtucker Trial

Maura Higgins took to the freezing camp shower in I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here wearing a skimpy black bikini.

However, it was her use of an old sock that grabbed the attention. The former Love Island star, 34, had faced her worst fear of spiders in the Bushtucker Trial Fright At The End of The Tunnel. Immediately after rejoining camp with Jane Moore, the Irish beauty decided she had to wash away the trauma.

As she head to the wash base, she popped an old red sock over her hand and began to rinse herself. And stunned fans shared a number of reactive posts on Twitter /X following the scenes. Sharing an image of a shocked face, one user wrote: “Maura exfoiliting [sic] her skin with a dirty sock, having had bugs thrown down at her on a bus, traumatised on a trial and an apple for her birthday for her gift #imaceleb #imacelebrity #IMA2024 #imacelebrity2024.”

Maura used a sock in the shower ( 
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Another asked: “Maura exfoliated her skin with an old sock – what on earth could’ve made a sock that rough?…,” while a third joked at Maura’s plight: “Spent her birthday being tortured on a bus, got an apple when everyone else got treats, had to do a trial with Jane and now has to exfoliate with a dirty sock. Our maura is suffering on a biblical level.”

Prior to her shower scenes, v iewers saw Maura shouting “a**hole! ” at Jane during a tense Bushtucker Trial. The two ladies were chosen to take part as Maura had to crawl through cages to find hidden four letter words written on signs covered by sand. Jane, meanwhile, had to swim through an underwater obstacle course to find correlating word padlocks that she could unlock with the words Maura was sharing with her. However, Maura’s accent seemed to cause confusion when it came to spelling the word Boat.

Despite spelling it out clearly and loudly, Jane wasn’t able to understand the letter “A”. As Jane repeatedly asked what the letter she couldn’t understand was, Maura was seen losing her patience and snapping: “A! For a**hole!”Before the clip was shown, Jane’s family arrived Down Under. When asked about how their mum would fare, her daughters admitted their the Loose Women star “asked for this”. Speaking to the Mirror and other press, they said: “She’s wanted to a do a trial since the beginning. I think she’s going to absolutely smash it.” However, revealing a trial with water would have been Jane’s least favourite task, they said: “Probably something with water [would be the worst], which happens to be the one we’ve got her into, but she asked for it.”