Maura Higgins invites her rumoured new beau Giovanni Pernice home to Longford to meet mammy

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Loved-up Maura Higgins deployed some covert moves to keep her budding romance ‘strictly secret’. New couple Maura and Strictly dancer Giovanni Pernice wanted to ‘get to know each other in private’ before revealing they were a couple.

And now EVOKE has learned the Love Island star and the dancer enjoyed ‘secret dinner dates’ away from the prying eyes of the public at a top London restaurant.

A source revealed: ‘They have been together for a while now. But, obviously, because their love lives are a source of interest they wanted to see how well they got together before it was in the news.’ ‘For Maura especially, every time she is seen with anyone it’s in the papers then it’s news again when there’s a break-up, so they both just wanted to see