Victoria Hervey slams Maura Higgins’ claim that Scott Henshall ruined her Fashion Awards experience

Lady Victoria Hervey has hit back at Maura Higgins’ claims that designer Scott Henshall ruined her British Fashion Awards experience. 

Maura, 32, claimed she didn’t go to the event because Henshall, 47, brought her an inappropriate dress,  didn’t bring the right shoes and abandoned her in her hotel room for three hours, 

But Victoria, 46, who was also dressed by the designer that night, told MailOnline: ‘What Maura is saying is not true at all.

‘Scott didn’t ignore her. Maura had her own glam team in her room and what I heard is that she liked the dress but Scott’s PR, who was in charge of bringing her shoes, brought her ones she didn’t like. 

‘Scott was mad because he did not like the ones the PR chose.’

Victoria continued: ‘It’s absolutely not true to say that Scott left Maura for three hours. 

Maura ‘pulled out of Monday’s British Fashion Awards after Scott created an inappropriate dress, left her alone for over THREE hours and failed to arrange her shoes, it has been alleged

‘He is a professional and the weakness is unfortunately in his PR team. Maura wanted to get her own makeup and hair team in her room.’

MailOnline has contacted a spokesperson for both Maura and Scott for further information. 

Maura pulled out of Monday’s British Fashion Awards at the last minute after claiming her racy custom-made outfit was ‘not very appropriate’.

It’s also been claimed she was left upset with top designer Scott after he ‘left her alone for over three hours’ in favour of Victoria before the event.

The Love Island star allegedly also became agitated by Mulberry’s former  creative director when he failed to ‘arrange a selection of shoes for her to wear’, as previously promised.

Friends in high places:  Victoria pictured with Scott at the British Fashion Awards on Monday night 

A source told The Sun at the time: ‘Scott was dressing Maura, Victoria and model Talulah Eve. 

‘Maura’s gown was meant to resemble Paris Hilton’s chainmail dress from 2002. Ultimately, it looked nothing like it and she wasn’t happy.

‘Scott was also supposed to arrange a selection of shoes for her to wear, which he didn’t do. He then left Maura waiting in her room alone for over three hours to go to help dress Victoria.’

The reality star was preparing to mingle with the great and good of the style world on Monday night, but ‘decided not to go’ just minutes before she was due on the red carpet after not feeling comfortable in her custom-made gown. 

The Irish TV personality shared an Instagram clip from her hotel room, wearing a full face of a makeup and the dress in question, which she said she had ‘zero control’ over.

Maura styled her long brunette tresses poker straight as she revealed she was ‘still in the hotel’ when fans were asking where she was. 

Eek! ‘Scott was also supposed to arrange a selection of shoes for her to wear, which he didn’t do. He then left Maura waiting in her room alone for over three hours to go to dress Victoria’

Maura said: ‘So guys, everyone is messaging me like, “Where are ya and where are the red carpet pictures?” I’ve had a bit of a nightmare. 

‘So obviously you can see I am fully ready. Glam team are on point as usual. Basically…. the dress, the shoes, everything wasn’t something I’d wear. 

‘I don’t really know what to say, it’s like, I just feel it’s not very appropriate for the Fashion Awards. 

Iconic: The source added: ‘Maura’s gown was meant to resemble Paris Hilton’s chainmail dress from 2002 (pictured). Ultimately, it looked nothing like it and she wasn’t happy’

‘I obviously do like to go daring, you guys know that, but I just feel, I don’t know. It’s just not right. So yeah, I’ve decided not to go. I’m still in the hotel as you can see.’  

A number of big names at the British Fashion Awards 2022 donned head turning glamorous gowns.

Earlier in the day, the reality star shared a selfie to her Instagram Story while getting glammed up in her hotel room ahead of the star-studded evening. 

Beaming while holding up a piece sign, Maura revealed the designer Scott Henshall, was behind the gown which she disapproved of. 

The penned: ‘BFA tonight… first time to have zero control on my outfit… excited to see what @scott_henshall has designed for me’. 

Scott burst onto the fashion scene in 1998, at the young age of 22, being the youngest designer to show at London Fashion Week. 

Previously, he was hailed ‘King of the Red Carpet’, after creating a series of iconic dresses including dressing supermodel Jodie Kidd in a web of lace for the first Spider-Man premiere.

In 2004, he attracted global media attention, after designing the World’s Most Expensive Dress, a £5 million diamond-encrusted cobweb dress worn by Samantha Mumba.

Scott famously appeared in the 2006 series of I’m A Celebrity but was the second campmate to be voted out. 

He said at the time: ‘Most people in the fashion would be disgusted that I’m even doing a reality TV show.”

‘But as far as I’m concerned it’s as good being in Heat magazine as it is being in Vogue.’

He added: ‘Most people in the industry I’m in are evil and horrible and I don’t even mix with them. This is why I’m doing this kind of show.

‘Because you work in fashion, people sometimes think it’s pretentious, it’s all glamour, and to an extent it is, but at the end of the day I’m still a good Northern boy and I’m just doing fashion as my job.’

He previously said: ‘I love dressing supermodels like Naomi Campbell, Petra Nemcova and Adriana Lima because they look like goddesses.

‘I also like dressing, as I call them, “little pop tarts”, like the members of B*Witched or Tina Barrett from S Club 7. When I put Tina in a red dress for the S Club 7 film premiere I told her, “I want to give you a J.Lo moment.” 

‘She has an amazing body, so I put her in a dress from my catwalk show that supermodel Erin O’Connor had worn. To be honest, Tina killed it even more than Erin. It’s all about having the right outfit on the right celebrity at the right time.’

Legs for days: Talulah-Eve, also dressed by Scott, is pictured on the night