Could you tell me a bit about how you came to do Love Island?
I started applying and then it’s like, you have to make a video. I thought, “Oh fuck that.” I just didn’t get round to it because the application is so long. No one tells you how long the application is, it’s like pages and pages and pages of information about yourself. And you have to give really detailed responses. So I’d done all of that and it took me like three days to do it, and I was like, “Can I even be arsed for this?” And then I got to the video and I was like, “That’s my final straw, I’m not doing this.” So anyway, my friend Lauren went to an ITV event, and Mike Spencer was there, who is one of the big dogs at Lifted Entertainment and she said, “Are you still casting for Love Island?” And this was in May, not of this year, the year before. He said yes, and they called me, and the day after I went down to London. So I did everything really quickly – normally you do a call, then a Zoom call, then you have another phone call and you go to London. So I just passed everything because it was so late in the process. I went straight down to London to meet the casting producers, and they basically told me then and there that they were casting for late bombshells and Casa Amor.
And I just said to them, “To be honest, if I was ever going to do Love Island, it would have to be the first week or nothing. Because I have such a steady career and I’ve really worked my way up.” It’s a big risk, but it was always something I wanted to do. I was obsessed with the show since I was 13 or 14, when I shouldn’t have been watching it. I had the water bottles and everything. like, I’d definitely grown up watching the show, but then when it came round, I was like, “Oh, this is a possibility.” But I said no to that year, because if I was going to do it, I’d do it properly. And then, this year they rang me in January really early on and they were like, “Please, please apply, our execs loved you, we really want you to apply.” I went through the whole process and then yeah, I got on as an OG.