They’ve got A-levels and been to university...and yet Love Island stars don’t know what Brexit is!
THEY know all about current affairs on Love Island – who fancies who, how to soothe sunburn and which girl looks best in a bikini.
Just don’t ask them about Brexit. Although this year’s contestants boast a variety of educational qualifications, they don’t have a clue about the most important issue facing Britain today.
In an episode of the ITV2 show last week a group of contestants discussed the issue as they lounged by the pool.
One admitted she didn’t know what Brexit was as others pondered its impact on British trees, cheese – and their holiday plans.
Performing arts student Georgia Steel, 20, brought up the subject that has divided the country, asking ‘What do you think about Brexit?’ Clearly confused, model Hayley Hughes, 22, replied: ‘I don’t have a clue what that is’ – despite having three A-levels and the issue dominating headlines for the past two years.
As contestants, including West End performer Samira Mighty, 22, who trained at the £9,000-a-year Millennium Performing Arts School in London, struggled to explain the implications of leaving the EU, Hayley expressed concern it would rid Britain of its trees. Happily, Georgia, who also works part-time as a barmaid in Chelsea, reassured her Britain’s trees would be unaffected as this was to do with ‘weather’. Hayley, a former Miss British Isles, claims to have achieved A-levels in ICT, science. and health and social care – before going on to study childhood and education at Liverpool Hope University in her home city. She is understood to have left the course.
ITV2’s Love Island, which has been running since 2015, was last summer’s surprise smash hit – with 2.6million mainly young viewers tuning in for the final.
It sees single wannabe celebrities holed up in a Majorcan villa as they forge relationships and vie to be voted the show’s best couple.
It is notorious for its debauched scenes, with contestants regularly having explicit
‘Does it mean we won’t have any trees?’
conversations and even having sex on air. This year Dani Dyer, whose father is EastEnders actor Danny, has already been in floods of tears after finding out her show partner – who she met two days earlier – had cheated on ex-girlfriends.
reality stars have a long history of betraying their ignorance on camera. In 2002, Big Brother’s Jade Goody said she thought that East Anglia – pronounced ‘East Angular’ – was ‘abroad’, while The Only Way Is Essex’s Joey Essex, 27, admitted that he does not know how to tell the time.