{"id":463206,"date":"2026-05-23T10:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T10:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/463206\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T10:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T10:07:10","slug":"maura-higgins-among-stars-at-cannes-film-festival-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/463206\/","title":{"rendered":"Maura Higgins among stars at Cannes Film Festival gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irish Love Island star Maura Higgins was among the stars on the red carpet at the annual amfAR Gala Cannes 2026 gala.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Higgins wore an eye-catching pink dress to the event, which also included the likes of Eva Longoria, Heidi Klum, Lizzo and Robbie Williams.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"636\" width=\"953\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/maura-higgins-among-stars-at-cannes-film-festival-gala.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1903849 aligncenter fixed-width-container\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Maura Higgins attends the annual American Foundation for Aids research amfAR Gala Cannes 2026 at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d&#8217;Antibes, southern France. Photo: Thibaud Moritz\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The gala is considered one of the most exclusive events at Cannes. It raises money for HIV\/Aids research, and last year&#8217;s edition took in donations worth $17 million (\u20ac14.6 million).<\/p>\n<p>Higgins recently appeared in the US edition of The Traitors and I&#8217;m A Celebrity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"636\" width=\"953\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779530830_645_maura-higgins-among-stars-at-cannes-film-festival-gala.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1903848 aligncenter fixed-width-container\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Maura Higgins attends the annual American Foundation for Aids research amfAR Gala Cannes 2026 at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d&#8217;Antibes, southern France. Photo by Thibaud Moritz\/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>She described appearing at the gala as a &#8220;dream&#8221;. Higgins said her career had taken &#8220;a whole different turn&#8221; since her appearance on The Traitors.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish Love Island star Maura Higgins was among the stars on the red carpet at the annual amfAR&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-463206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}