OHMYGOSSIP — Amber Gill doesn’t want to see a gay version of ‘Love Island’.
The 25-year-old reality star won the hit ITV2 dating show in 2019 with then-boyfriend Greg O’Shea and is now in a relationship with footballer Jen Beattie but explained that ahead of the launch of the new series on June 2 because it would be “too hard” to cast.
Asked if she wanted to see any changes to the format of the show, she told RadioTimes.com: “Not anything in particular for me. I know there’s a lot of people that say they would like to see a sort of LGBTQ+ Love Island. I think it would be hard to cast for something like that. I think that it’s hard in itself to cast it now and I think adding that in would make it even harder.”
The former ‘Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins’ contestant went on to add that the concept of a gay dating programme could be a “possibility” but thinks that it would end up becoming an entity completely different to ‘Love Island.’
She added: “I think it is a possibility, but I think if that was a show, it should be a different show altogether because then I think it makes it so different from what it is.”
In 2021, ITV’s commissioner Amanda Stavri claimed that the inclusion of gay contestants would prove to be a “logistical difficulty.”
She said: “In terms of gay Islanders, I think the main challenge is regarding the format of Love Island. There’s a sort of logistical difficulty, because although Islanders don’t have to be 100 per cent straight, the format must sort of give [the] Islanders an equal choice when coupling up.”
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