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Professional ballroom dancer Curtis Pritchard has shut down rumours that his girlfriend Maura Higgins will be replacing Caroline Flack as the host of the nation's favourite reality TV show, Love Island.

The 23 year old, who debuted his new show with Tommy Fury called The Boxer & The Ballroom Dancer on Monday evening, made the revelation on Hits Radio Breakfast show to hosts Fleur East, Greg Burns and James Barr.

Curtis, who has been the show's Strictly Come Dancing correspondent for the past couple of weeks, was discussing his original predictions for who would win the BBC One show, before Kelvin Fletcher and Oti Mabuse won the crown.

But before signing off, Greg took the opportunity to question Curtis about the rumour surrounding his Irish girlfriend, which has been circulating since last week.

Addressing the pro dancer, who recently confessed his end goal is to become a film star, he said: "Maura's been spotted somewhere pretty glamorous, it's very hot. Could she be heading into the new Love Island villa to do some presenting do you think?"

Greg is, of course, referring to the snap Maura, 29, uploaded of herself on a private jet to her Instagram, which was captioned: "off to the sun to shoot something very exciting..." [sic]

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The picture caused many to believe she's in the running to replace Caroline on the famous ITV series, after Caroline was arrested and charged with assault by beating at her North London home.

Sounding a little fed up by the circulating rumours, Curtis quickly replied: "I am going to put an end to this rumour.

"So no, she's actually working, she's isn't going to do what everybody thinks she's going to do.

"She's isn't flying out there, it just happened to be a coincidence at the timings."

(Image: Instagram/Caroline Flack)

Not completely convinced by his explanation, Fleur said: "Curtis, if you're lying to us, I'm going to be very very upset with you."

To which he replied: "If I'm lying to you right now, that means she's lied to me. So I hope I'm not lying to you."

It comes as Caroline's model boyfriend Lewis recently slammed the "witch hunt" surrounding the star since her arrest.

The 27 year old was confirmed to be involved in the incident at their lavish London home, but has since defended his girlfriend by calling her "loyal and kind" in an Instagram post.

The former tennis player wrote on an Instagram story: "I'm tired of the lies and abuse aimed at my girlfriend. This is not a witch hunt this is someone's life." [sic]

He added: "I have not signed any NDA. Why would I? Caroline is the most lovely girl. Loyal and kind. She doesn't deserve any of this."

Lewis’ denial of signing an NDA comes after Caroline’s former fiancé Andrew Brady uploaded copies of a non-disclosure agreement, thought to be from when he was engaged to the TV favourite last year.

The NDA – which appears to remain unsigned by Andrew in his photo – is dated 14 March 2018 and according to MailOnline, Andrew "was not paid" to sign the document and "seemed happy enough to do so at the time".