CABIN FEVER
With bikinis, hot tubs and a raunchy line-up, it’s ITV’s trashy alternative to Love Island – so get set for…
LoVE Island may have fallen foul of Covid rules. But, for those eager to watch bikini- clad wannabes canoodling in hot tubs, all is not lost. A replacement show called The Cabins will also feature glamorous singletons yearning for love and hopping into bed – with a twist. While Love Island contestants were nearly all straight, two of this year’s crop are lesbians. The five men and seven women – all under 30 – include an architecture student, an air stewardess, a bingo caller and a binman. Paired up by producers, they will get to know each other in cabins in what ITV would only describe as ‘an idyllic setting in the UK’. After 24 hours, they’ll choose either to stay together for another day or leave the show and hand their cabin to a new couple. There is no winner of the threeweek series and no prize money.
Eldest contestant Charlotte, a 29-year-old operations manager for a coffee company, was previously ‘engaged to a guy’ but has been dating women for 18 months. she said: ‘I feel like I’m still learning my type. I definitely like the more alternative girls.
‘Tattoos, piercings.. .and more tomboy than really girly.’ sarah, a 26-year- old actress who specialises in ‘murder mystery’ roles, has dated men but now goes mostly for women.
she said: ‘I’ve dated men, but not a lot. Primarily I’m into women, but if I fall for a guy, I’ll give them a chance. I do classify myself as lesbian.’
Jess, 24, from newport in Wales, is after ‘a male version of me’ and footballer Mamudo, 23, wants someone to ‘match my energy’. Robyn, 26, is ‘ ready’ for romance after being single for four years and ‘confident’ Will, 28, wants someone to have a laugh with.
Love Island, set in Majorca and south Africa, has taken a break due to Covid. The Cabins, which starts on ITV2 on Monday at 9pm, was filmed in november.
THE Prime Minister’s father is applying for a French passport to maintain his ties with the European Union after Brexit.
Stanley Johnson, 80, a former member of the European Parliament who voted Remain in the 2016 referendum, told France’s RTL radio he wanted to become a French citizen because of his strong family links to the country.
Speaking in French, Mr Johnson explained: ‘If I understand it correctly, I am French. My mother was born in France, her mother was totally French as was her grandfather. So for me it is about reclaiming what I already have. And that makes me very happy.
‘I will always be a European, that’s for sure. One cannot tell the British people, “you are not Europeans”. Having a tie with the European Union is important.’
Now the transition period has ended, British nationals no longer have the automatic right to live and work in the 27 EU member states, but those with dual nationality will still be able to do so.