If you renounce your reality past, will you suddenly make it as a model? Love Island’s Maura Higgins is one of many ex-contestants who think so
Broadly speaking, there are now two types of reality TV star gracing screens. There are those who exist only within the confines of the genre, suspended in a Groundhog Day cycle as they jump from show to show until they land on their own spin-off. And there are those who see reality TV as a stepping stone to something bigger.
Increasingly, contestants are defecting to the second category. Take the breakout star of
Love Island season 5, Maura Higgins, who recently left her management in order to pursue modelling and distance herself from the programme that made her famous in the first place. “She’s desperate to move away from reality TV,” an insider said.