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ISLAND QUEEN

t’s Maura Higgins’ moment. And rightly so: she manifested it. You might have seen the scene-stealing Irish beauty gracing your screens recently as the newly-minted, very social host of Peacock’s “Love Island USA” and “Love Island Games,” but behind every seemingly overnight success story is a long tale of sheer hard work—“graft” in Irish parlance. “I don’t think people ever see the graft,” agrees Higgins, 33, who reveals that she got the call about the career-making hosting gig from the network just two weeks after she created a vision board with her best friend in early 2023. “So now I’m a big believer in all this manifestation stuff,” she

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