{"id":3297,"date":"2025-03-31T17:34:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T17:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pilotshopworld.com\/?p=3297"},"modified":"2025-04-02T18:37:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T18:37:38","slug":"maura-higgins-downs-shots-with-margot-robbie-during-boozy-lunch-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pilotshopworld.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/maura-higgins-downs-shots-with-margot-robbie-during-boozy-lunch-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Maura Higgins downs shots with Margot Robbie during boozy lunch in London"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maura Higgins is brushing off her recent drama by lunching with major movie stars (Picture: Instagram)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After a turbulent few weeks of intense scrutiny, Maura Higgins<\/a> has been letting her hair down with a Hollywood icon.<\/p>\n

The Irish influencer, 34, and singer Danny Jones<\/a>, 39, made headlines at the start of the month by sharing a drunken kiss at a Brit Awards<\/a> afterparty.<\/p>\n

While Maura, who is single<\/a>, has not publicly commented on the salacious smooch, Danny, who has been married to wife Georgia for 11 years<\/a>, issued an apology, writing that he wishes to ‘deeply apologise’<\/a> to those his actions impacted.<\/p>\n

Clearly keen to put the drama behind her, though, Maura has been brushing shoulders with celebs of a different calibre, as she enjoyed a boozy London<\/a> lunch with Margot Robbie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Barbie actress, 34, has made no secret of her love for Love Island<\/a>, on which Maura found fame in 2019.<\/p>\n

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So, upon discovering they were going to be in the capital at the same time, it seems the Suicide Squad star couldn’t resist a little networking.<\/p>\n

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For me, where you live and what you do have to be simplistic and comfortable; otherwise, how are you possibly going to relax?’ <\/p>\n<p>Margot, who is now married to Tom Ackerley and<a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/11\/07\/margot-robbie-spotted-newborn-becomes-first-time-mum-21951982\/\"> welcomed her first child last year<\/a>, has built up some pretty solid connections with past Love Islanders over the years.<\/p>\n<p>At the Barbie premiere, the unashamed fangirl was more than happy to take selfies with Ekin-Su C\u00fclc\u00fclo\u011flu and her then-boyfriend, Davide Sanclimenti.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"808\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pilotshopworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SEI_185939314-8342.jpg\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22824940\" alt=\"Chris Taylor Instagram\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t<\/div><figcaption>Chris Taylor even bagged himself a role in Greta Gerwig’s movie (Picture: Instagram)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dancing On Ice contestant <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2023\/07\/21\/barbie-margot-robbie-love-island-chris-taylor-role-19172093\/\">Chris Taylor even managed to bag himself a role<\/a> in Greta Gerwig’s film, which Margot also produced.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old had a part less than 30 seconds long as he portrayed a version of Ken, which acting titans Ryan Gosling, Ncuti Gatwa, and Simu Li also played.<\/p>\n<p>Revealing exactly how he booked the job, Chris explained that it was far from a conventional audition process.<\/p>\n<p>While he was busting out some moves at a premiere afterparty, Margot made her way over to him and, to Chris’s astonishment, knew his name.<\/p>\n<p>He told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ok.co.uk\/celebrity-news\/love-islands-chris-taylor-i-30522654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OK! Magazine<\/a>: ‘So, I basically went down the route of telling her about my mate who\u2019s got a micropenis.<\/p>\n<p>‘I informed her of that, and we had a little chat about micropenises, which was lovely and quite funny.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"594\" height=\"396\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pilotshopworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-2074868359.jpg\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22715333\" alt=\"Margot Robbie poses in a gold sparkly corset dress at the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t<\/div><figcaption>Margot says Love Island reminds her of when she lived in London with pals (Picture: Jamie McCarthy\/WireImage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<section class=\"metro-comment-cta\">\n<div class=\"metro-comment-cta__inner\"><span class=\"metro-comment-cta__text-wrap\"><title>Comment now<\/title><span class=\"metro-comment-cta__text\">Who’s your favourite-ever Love Island contestant?<\/span><\/span><a class=\"metro-comment-cta__button\" href=\"#metro-comments-container\">Comment Now<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>‘And then I went on to tell her about my dad\u2019s mate whose balls are so big, he can carry 12 bottles of Budweiser on his ballsack like a tray.’<\/p>\n<p>After that, Warner Bros. gave him a call and asked him to be part of Barbie… the rest is history!<\/p>\n<p>Chris previously added: ‘I’m fairly certain that’s how it went down, but the only confirmation I’ve really got is that her husband, Tom Ackerley, said to me at the (Barbie) premiere that Margot was like, “We have to get Chris in this film”.’<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Got a story?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">If you\u2019ve got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\">Metro.co.uk<\/a> entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@metro.co.uk, calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/submit-stuff\/\">Submit Stuff<\/a> page – we\u2019d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tv\/27179847\/chris-taylor-real-reason-he-wont-appear-barbie-sequel\/#:~:text=Love%20Island%20star%20Chris%2C%2033,and%20leading%20star%20Margot%20Robbie.&text=Lasting%20less%20than%2030%20seconds,as%20a%20version%20of%20Ken.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maura Higgins is brushing off her recent drama by lunching with major movie stars (Picture: Instagram) After a turbulent few weeks of intense scrutiny, Maura Higgins has been letting her<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pilotshopworld.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/maura-higgins-downs-shots-with-margot-robbie-during-boozy-lunch-in-london\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<svg class=\"icon icon-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-arrow-right\" xlink:href=\"#icon-arrow-right\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maura Higgins downs shots with Margot Robbie during boozy lunch in London<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pilotshopworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pilotshopworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pilotshopworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pilotshopworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pilotshopworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.pilotshopworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3305,"href":"http:\/\/www.pilotshopworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions\/3305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pilotshopworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pilotshopworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pilotshopworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pilotshopworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}