Zara McDermott and Lucien Laviscount set tongues wagging at the Brits after they were spotted getting cosy at the star-studded music bash.

The newly single Zara, 28, was seated next to the Emily in Paris heatthrob for the entire ceremony and lapped up the attention she received from him.

An insider said: ‘Lucien was making his move. He was chatting her up all night, whispering in her ear and dancing with her.

‘He seemed really smitten. Zara clearly enjoyed his company as she couldn’t stop smiling and laughing.’

Awkwardly her ex Sam Thompson was seated just a few tables away from the Love Island beauty, as she dazzled in a stunning white gown with feather detailing which boasted a daring thigh high split.

He was joined on the Hitz radio exclusive table with his best pal Pete Wicks, former Love Islander Olivia Attwood, and actress Gemma Atkinson.

Zara McDermott and Lucien Laviscount set tongues wagging at the Brits after they were spotted getting cosy at the star-studded music bash

The newly single Zara, 28, was seated next to the Emily in Paris heatthrob (pictured) for the entire ceremony and lapped up the attention she received from him

But it was only Lucien, 32, which captured Zara’s eye in his striking all white ensemble which perfectly matched Zara’s white dress.

The pair were also filmed dancing to Sabrina Carpenter’s raunchy pre-watershed performance that saw the lingerie-clad pop star get down on her knees in front of a ‘King’s Guard’.

MailOnline has contacted Zara and Lucien’s representatives for comment. 

Lucien is also recently single after dating pop star Shakira.

The 47-year-old Colombian singer fell for the British actor, when they met on the set of the video for her song Punteria and were spotted out for dinner in New York in March last year.

Lucien has been romantically linked to Jesy Nelson, Kelly Osbourne, Brooke Vincent, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Chelsee Healey over the years.

His first high profile relationship was with Kerry Katona in 2011, when he was 19 and she was 31, after they met on Celebrity Big Brother in the UK.

MailOnline revealed Sam and Zara split in December after five years together with the former Strictly stunner revealing shortly after that she had moved out of their Chelsea home.

And ahead of the A-list ceremony the podcast star, and former Love Island bombshell, narrowly missed one another as they posed for pH๏τos on the Brits red carpet.

Awkwardly her ex Sam Thompson, who she split from in December, was seated just a few tables away

An insider said: ‘Lucien was making his move. He was chatting her up all night, whispering in her ear and dancing with her. He seemed really smitten. Zara clearly enjoyed his company’ 

Sam was suited and booted in a black tuxedo which he layered over a stylish navy shirt and posed for solo pH๏τos before being joined by his sister Louise Thompson.

MailOnline can reveal that the I’m A Celebrity winner then very quickly walked the rest of the carpet and didn’t stop as he avoided speaking to press.

However his best pal Pete Wicks exclusively told MailOnline, while speaking alongside Olivia Attwood, that ‘Sam is struggling tonight’.

The former TOWIE star said: ‘I’m not without him, he’s actually right there, just there. It’s hard for him tonight because I have a new work wife and Sam is struggling with that a little bit.’

Olivia added: ‘Sam did grab me earlier and said, “Liv just so you know I will be with you tonight” and I said I fully anticipated that you would be. 

Pete continued: ‘It does feel a little bit weird because I feel like I am’, before Olivia interrupted and joked that Pete is ‘cheating’.  

He jokingly added: ‘Yes it does, nicely done Liv. Because I’ve never done that.’

Minutes after Sam left the carpet Zara made her grand entrance in a stunning white gown which boasted a daring thigh high split. 

Following the ceremony, Sam joined Pete and Olivia at the glamorous Universal Music afterparty which was held at 180 The Strand, while it is believe Zara headed straight home.

It comes weeks after Sam admitted that Valentine’s Day felt like a ‘punch to the gut’ as he opened up about being single following split from Zara.

Speaking on his Staying Relevant podcast on Valentine’s Day, the TV personality told co-host Pete that the romantic holiday was the ‘longest day of the f***ing year’.

Strictly star Pete jokingly begged Zara to ‘please take Sam back’ as the reality star discussed going through ‘tough times’ and explained how he has adapted his home to allow him to ‘forget about the entire world’.

MailOnline revealed Sam and Zara split in December after five years together with the former Strictly stunner revealing shortly after that she has moved out of their Chelsea home; pictured at the BRITs 2024 

Sam said: ‘I’m so happy Valentine’s Day is over. I’m over the moon, longest day of the f***ing year, never realised how long it is before. You just don’t realise until your alone.

‘That day, I did have some time off social media, I played chess with a friend. Marvin [Humes] called me to check in, but you didn’t call me Pete.’

Pete replied: ‘I don’t need to call you you’re a 32-year-old man’.

Sam added: ‘I would have really liked that, just some sort of reach out.

‘I use to love a Valentine’s Day Instagram post, I loved posting it and viewing other peoples, but when your single it hits different, now it is like a punch to the gut.

‘When I wasn’t single I was like, I love love but now I’m like, “no, no, no!”‘