Love Island’s Abi Rawlings urges 2022 contestants to be authentic

OHMYGOSSIP — Former ‘Love Island’ star Abi Rawlings has urged this year’s contestants to “be authentic” as people will “see through” them otherwise.
The 28-year-old tattoo artist from Bournemouth, who took part in the seventh season of the hit ITV2 dating show, gained a huge following on Instagram after leaving the villa, but says people shouldn’t go into the programme thinking about the fame and followers.
She told the Daily Star newspaper: “If you go in there generally for love, it actually doesn’t matter what happens. Say for example when there’s a situation like, ‘I might get sent home here, so I’m going to act out of character and hope to stay.’
“I feel like it’s really obvious when you do stuff like that, and people can see through it; it shows you’re not being authentic.
“So if you actually go in with the attitude of ‘I’m here for love, I don’t care about the Instagram followers or the fame that could potentially come with it’, then I think you’ll show your true self.
“You won’t come across as someone who’s a little bit of a try hard just trying to get a little bit of this where they can. Basically just be authentic or else people will see through it.”
Abi has admitted she “struggled” with all the attention after leaving the villa.
She added: “When I first came out [of the villa] I definitely did struggle a little bit, because I’ve never had so many eyes on me.
“Before ‘Love Island’, I only had a tattoo Instagram account, which was a work profile. I didn’t even have a private profile. But once I got in, I didn’t want people to follow that page unless they actually were interested in tattoos, so I created a personal account.
“Everything was very new, and I did hide away for a little bit to digest it all. At first I found it really scary when strangers would talk to me, and because they watched me on telly they would talk to me like they were an old friend rather than a stranger.
“It would throw me – I’d be like, ‘Do I know you, have I tattooed you?’ ”

Source: VacationHunter.Online

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