Former Love Island winner Amber Gill has explained that she refused to kiss boys properly on the show when she was made to during raunchy tasks.
The 23-year-old also fears she came across as rude to other contestants when she first entered the show, and struggled to bond with her fellow contestants.
Amber won the 2019 series of the ITV2 reality romance show alongside Irish hunk Greg O’Shea, 24 – although the pair broke up soon after leaving the series.
With the show returning to screens on Monday night for the first summer series since Amber and Greg won, with the 2020 season cancelled due to the Covid pandemic, the Geordie lass found herself thinking back to her time on the series.
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Fans were begging the star to make a return to the show to show the current crop of contestants how it is done.
A fan asked Amber via Instagram Q&A: “Can you just go into the villa again please? We need you!”
But the star rejected the suggestion, writing: “I didn’t understand the assignment at all.”
Explaining further, she said in a video: “I keep saying this, but do you not remember how s**t I was? I wasn’t getting to know people. I was rude.”
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Amber also hinted she would not have done well on the first episode of the 2021 season as she was aghast that contestants were being made to suck parts of their bodies.
And, indeed, she revealed she would purposefully sabotage tasks when she was a contestant on the show.
She said: “I don’t like toe sucking or s**t like that.
“On the kissing challenge, I purposefully kissed those boys s**t because I didn’t want to touch them.”
Amber also explained that she may have looked blue when she first featured on the series, but she really was thrilled to be there.
She joked via social media: “I remember when I walked in they asked me to give more energy. Go on babes give us nothing!!”
She went on: “I’m so happy to be here. I was happy I just didn’t show it.”
While Amber may not have enjoyed all the tasks on the show, she was finding herself becoming attached to one of the 2021 contestants as she watched the latest series from home.
Newcastle based Amber became protective of 26-year-old contestant Brad McClelland – who hails from Amble, a town which is a 45 minute drive from Newcastle.
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Amber was protective of the young lad as she noticed some viewers were complaining they couldn’t understand his thick Northumberland accent on the show.
She said in an Instagram Stories video: “I can’t let everyone think he said he was a Libra from North London. I can’t do that to him.
“Everyone has to know he said he is a labourer from Northumberland.
“I feel like I’m doing the Lord’s work with this.”
Amber explained to her followers that she would happily translate any words that Brad said that they struggled to comprehend.
She wrote: “Everyone is like ‘why is he saying his star sign’. I couldn’t allow it. I have to look after my own!” – however she did confess she was struggling to understand his accent herself.
Love Island airs on ITV nightly at 9pm
Originally from https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/love-islands-amber-gill-deliberately-24418837