Maura Higgins planning red carpet return at TV BAFTAs after explosive Danny Jones kiss

Maura Higgins plans to make her red carpet return at the 2025 TV BAFTAs this weekend - two months after she rocked a marriage at the last glitzy show she attended. The 34-year-old star caused headlines in March when she was caught locking lips with married star 39 at the 2025 BRIT Awards.

The reality star and McFly singer endured damning headlines - while Danny's beauty queen wife 38, was said to be "humiliated" by the extramarital kiss. The Star Girl singer has been keeping himself out of the spotlight in the weeks since the scandal rocked his marriage.

But now it has been reported that is confident and ready to return to the spotlight - and that enough time has passed since the kiss scandal erupted. The 2025 TV have been outlined as the best opportunity for Maura to make her spotlight return.

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While Maura is best known for appearing on Love Island, she expanded her time in the reality show circuit in 2024 as a contestant on The 2024 season also featured Danny - who won the show.

The long-running show has frequently been nominated for TV BAFTAs - but is not in the list of nominees for the 2025 ceremony. Meanwhile, show hosts and are nominated for the Best Entertainment Performance gong for hosting their now cancelled show,

Explaining why Maura is honing in on the BAFTAs for her red carpet return, a source told “She thinks enough time has passed. She can’t hide forever.

“She’s going to spend all morning before the bash getting glammed up and strut down the red carpet with her head held high.”

The source went on to explain that the Irish TV personality will refuse to answer any questions about the kiss at the awards and that she has "put the whole incident behind her and feels she has nothing to be ashamed of."

Danny, meanwhile, is expected to skip the awards despite winning I'm A Celeb - and being a star of ITV's singing contest The Voice where he serves as one of the coaches alongside McFly co-star .

The source claimed: “He wouldn’t do anything to make wife Georgia doubt him and doesn’t want to set a foot a wrong.” The has contacted representatives of Danny and Maura for comment.

Danny and Georgia have been married since 2018 and they share a six-year-old son named Cooper. Danny issued a gravelling apology after his kiss was exposed.

He wrote in an online post: "Hello everyone, sorry it's taken me a while to post this but I've taken some time out to be with those closest to me. I want to deeply apologise to my wife and family for putting them in this situation."

He added: "I love them so much and we'll continue to deal with this privately. I love you guys, thank you for your patience, understanding, and support. See you all soon, Danny."

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