Love Island 2019: The first 12 hopefuls are unveiled ahead of their villa debut… including a scientist, a fireman, a rugby player, and the brothers of Strictly’s AJ Pritchard and boxer Tyson Fury
- The fifth season of the ITV2 show launches on Monday June 3, with 12 hopefuls heading to the Mallorcan villa
- This year’s initial line-up features SEVEN men and only FIVE women
- Two of this year’s male contestants are already known to the public – Curtis Pritchard being a pro ballroom dancer and brother to Strictly star AJ, and Tommy Fury being boxer Tyson’s brother
- The show’s format sees extra contestants sent into the villa as the weeks progress while others are voted out
- Caroline Flack is back as host of the series – having gone through her own love life woes during the last season, splitting from her fiancé in the process
- Earlier this year Curtis’ brother AJ, 24, was reportedly caught in a romantic clinch with Caroline, 39
The line-up for Love Island 2019 has been unveiled by ITV, with just a week to go until the nation becomes besotted with a new batch of singletons.
12 hopefuls have been announced – with seven men outweighing just five ladies, promising a far from smooth-sailing start to the first coupling up of the fifth season.
Two men will reportedly be left out in the cold straight away, leaving the boys to battle against each other for the attention of the bikini-clad beauties moving into the Mallorcan villa.
Looking for love: 12 new singles are set to enter the famous villa on June 3 – with some already-known faces included in the 2019 line-up
Back for more: The series is to be fronted once again by Caroline Flack who, this time last year, was engaged to former Apprentice and Celebrity Big Brother star Andrew Brady
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As usual, Caroline Flack will be presiding over matters – having gone through her own love life woes during the last season.
She launched Love Island 2018 with a fiancé – The Apprentice star Andrew Brady – and showed off her ring to the girls on the show. But midway through the season she split from him.
She was even linked to Strictly Come Dancing’s AJ Pritchard at one point this year – and his brother is now one of the housemates due to enter the famous villa.
Curtis – who is a pro dancer on Ireland’s Dancing With The Stars as well – isn’t the only famous sibling set to appear on the show. Boxer Tyson Fury’s brother Tommy will also take part this year, after much speculation over the past few weeks.
Joining this pair are five other men – a catering company owner, a fireman, a gym owner, an aircraft engineer and a semi-pro rugby player who doubles up as a chef.
The first five women set to saunter onto the show next week include a beauty therapist, a scientist, a pharmacist, a surfer and an air hostess.
LOVE ISLAND 2019: MEET THE CONTESTANTS
Strictly speaking: Curtis is AJ Pritchard’s kid brother
Name: Curtis Pritchard
Age: 23
Occupation: Latin and Ballroom Pro
Location: Shropshire
Claim To Fame: Curtis is a pro dancer on Dancing With The Stars in Ireland, and is the younger brother of Strictly Come Dancing’s AJ Pritchard
Thoughts On Dating: ‘I’ve probably been on less than ten dates, maybe five. I’ve never used a dating app. All of this meeting people on social media and apps is fake,’ he says
Ever Cheated? ‘I have cheated before. I will always be loyal from now on’
Exotic: Anna boasts a Middle-Eastern heritage
Name: Anna Vakili
Age: 28
Occupation: Pharmacist
Location: London
Claim To Fame: ‘I ended up on the Iranian News earlier this year when my sister and I were away in Qatar with two Iranian footballers who have a huge following. Suddenly my followers went up by 20,000 and I started being tagged in fan pages!’ she recalls
Marks Out Of 10? ‘I would rate myself an eight. My best feature is my eyes, I get compliments on my eyes a lot. I wish I had a penny for every time I’ve had a compliment on my eyes’
She blinded me with science: Yewande has been unlucky in love
Name: Yewande Biala
Age: 23
Occupation: Scientist
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Thoughts On Love: Yewande says: ‘I don’t think there is a science to finding love and if there is then I have clearly been reading the wrong books’
Celebrity Crush: Anthony Joshua
In It To Win It? ‘I am a terrible flirt but I’m such a girly girl and I can’t imagine stealing someone’s man in there. I don’t think I’d be that type but never say never,’ she says
Too fast, too fury-ous: Tommy’s a boxer… like his brother
Name: Tommy Fury
Age: 20
Occupation: Boxer
Location: Manchester
Looking For? ‘Blonde hair, blue eyes, good tan, gym girl… Ariana Grande. That girl is fire!’
Claim To Fame: ‘It’s probably my brother, Tyson, but I’m my own man and I’ve said it throughout my whole boxing career. I don’t want to be labelled as his little brother, I’m my own man and I’m doing the best that I can do in life and that’s all I’m setting out to achieve,’ Tommy says
Hot stuff: Fireman Michael wants to be ‘someone’s personal hero’
Name: Michael Griffiths
Age: 27
Occupation: Firefighter
Location: Liverpool
Marks Out Of Ten? ‘I get complimented on my smile a lot. People seem to be obsessed with my lips. I’d rate myself ten out of ten, I would have said nine but I’m a hero so it bumps it up,’ is Michael’s modest answer
Ever Cheated? ‘Once. It was a revenge cheat’
Up and away: Welsh Callum works in aviation
Name: Callum Macleod
Age: 28
Occupation: Aircraft Engineer
Location: South Wales
Disastrous Dating Story: ‘I went to the cinema with a girl and she sat on a piece of chocolate that melted onto her leather trousers,’ Callum recalls. ‘She shot off to the toilet to clean them and didn’t come back for ages. I watched the majority of the film on my own. I later found her fretting in the toilets because she couldn’t get her trousers back on’
Cocky? Amber rates herself 10/10
Name: Amber Gill
Age: 21
Occupation: Beauty Therapist
Location: Newcastle
Disastrous Dating Story: ‘I was speaking to this guy and he lived in Manchester and I got the train down to see him,’ Amber recounts. ‘I was nervous because he was really good looking and a bit older than me. I had five Cosmopolitans in a can and I drank them on the train. When the train got to Manchester I got up and I was drunk! He was waiting for me at the train station and when I got off I fell through the gap between the train and platform. What an icebreaker though!’
Got talent? Amy has a crush on David Walliams and Simon Cowell
Name: Amy Hart
Age: 26
Occupation: Cabin Crew
Location: Worthing, Sussex
Celebrity Crushes: Liam Hemsworth, Ashley Banjo, David Walliams and Simon Cowell. ‘You’d never go there obviously but there is something about them,’ Amy says
Claim To Fame: Amy once met Liam Payne and had a photo with him. When she posted it online she was bombarded with hate mail from One Directioners, who thought she was his new squeeze
Food of love: Sherif is a dab-hand in the kitchen
Name: Sherif Lanre
Age: 20
Occupation: Chef and Semi-pro Rugby Player
Location: London
Worst traits: ‘Number one would be that I’m pretty outrageous, that can also translate to the bad side,’ Sherif says. ‘On top of that, I laugh at everything which sometimes gets me into trouble. I can’t really take anything seriously. My actual laugh, my hysterical laugh is pretty ugly’
Fitness first: Anton wants a girl who likes working out
Name: Anton Danyluk
Age: 24
Occupation: Gym Owner
Location: Airdrie, Scotland
Worst Date: ‘I bought myself a Porsche when I was 21, as you do! I picked a girl up in that and she started taking pictures when she was in the car and sending it to her friends. It shouldn’t matter what I was driving whether that be a Corsa or a Porsche so I finished the date right there’
Clumsy: Jack says he’s a total klutz
Name: Joe Garratt
Age: 22
Occupation: Catering Company Owner
Location: London
Marks Out Of 10? ‘Today, I reckon about an 8.5! In the mornings I’m probably like a low 8. I consistently stay around the 8s to 9s in my opinion. Maybe some days I go past the 9, when it’s a really good day…. a suit day. My best feature is my chat. I’m cheeky and a bit of a charmer. Looks wise, I’d say my best features are my teeth or curly hair’
Name: Lucie Donlan
Age: 21
Occupation: Surfer
Location: Newquay
Famous exes? ‘The last guy I was with was Charlie [Frederick] from last year’s Love Island. We got together a few weeks after he came out of the villa. I’ve spoken to Joey Essex on and off because I love his personality, it’s so funny. Lookswise I like Jay Alvarrez. He surfs, skydives and he’s got amazing hair. I would marry him!’
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Iain Stirling also returns with his inimitable take on all the island action as show narrator – remarking as the game of love gets underway.
The show sees the Islanders attempt to couple up in order to secure their places in the villa, with those who stay single finding themselves at risk of being dumped from the show.
When asked if she has ever spotted a Love Island romance before it’s happened, Caroline joked: ‘I can’t even match-make myself! So no, no one should rely on me to match-make them. I will just host the show and talk all about it’
Temptation is always rife for the Islanders, so loyalties will be tested, with surprise bombshell arrivals and unexpected twists and turns proving that the Love Island road to romance is never smooth.
Ultimately the public will decide their favourite couple, who will walk away from the villa with a life-changing cash prize, as they are crowned Love Island winners 2019 – taking the crowns from existing champions Dani Dyer and Jack Fincham, who split a matter of weeks ago.
This marked the final coupling from 2018’s season to end their relationships, with the likes of Wes Nelson and Megan Barton-Hanson, and Adam Collard and Zara McDermott all splitting over the last few months.
Speaking ahead of the show’s launch, Caroline, 39, said: ‘No love situation is ever the same, no relationship is ever the same, we are all either in love, out of love, falling in love or falling out of it. It’s relatable and that is the thing that is never going to change.’
She went on: ‘The Flack Attacks! I love it. I feel like I’m in such a privileged position to do them because it’s the sort of stuff I’d be speaking about anyway as a viewer.
‘I feel like a viewer that’s getting to go in the villa. To deliver that news and be part of the narrative is really exciting. And also hosting [spin-off series] Aftersun, to be able to talk about everything going on in Love Island and to be able to narrate that chat is a real privilege.
‘I’m a viewer first, presenter second but I’m really just a professional viewer. I support them, I can’t be a robot when it comes to the show otherwise I wouldn’t be the right person to do it.’
Socially acceptable: [L-R] Tommy Fury, Joe Garratt and Lucie Donlan are no strangers to flaunting their frames on Instagram
Flashing the flesh: [L-R] Anna Vakili, Amy Hart and Curtis Pritchard already have a sizable following
Pout and about: [L-R] Yewande Biala, Anton Danyluk and Michael Griffiths are far from camera shy online
Hot to trot: [L-R] Amy Gill, Sherif Lanre and Callum Macleod are used to uploading sultry snaps on social media
What a difference a year makes: Ultimately the public will decide their favourite couple, who will walk away from the villa with a life-changing cash prize, as they are crowned Love Island winners 2019 – taking the crowns from existing champions Dani Dyer and Jack Fincham, who split a matter of weeks ago
Sharing her pearls of wisdom as host of the show, Caroline said: ‘Love doesn’t happen easily, it happens over time and don’t worry if you don’t fancy someone at the beginning, you might fancy them by week two.
‘People often talk about how they relate to the dating dilemmas they see in the villa, we all feel that we’ve been there at some point.’
When asked if she has ever spotted a Love Island romance before it’s happened, Caroline joked: ‘I can’t even match-make myself! So no, no one should rely on me to match-make them.
‘I will just host the show and talk all about it!’
Love Island kicks off on ITV2 on Monday June 3.
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