Love Island beefcake Brad McClelland will charm the nation’s women, according to his biggest fan – his doting 75-year-old gran.
But “Nana” Joyce McClelland admits she is a little worried about the 26-year-old hunk she has raised since he was five.
Joyce is sure Brad, who shares her two-bedroom bungalow, will be a huge hit when the ITV show returns tomorrow for a new run.
But she fears he might bring home one of the villa beauties – possibly Shannon Singh, 22. Shannon, who strips on website OnlyFans, has boasted of a huge sex drive and can’t wait to meet fellow islanders on Majorca.
But straight-talking Joyce said: “She says she wants sex eight times a day. I hope he doesn’t end up with her or that back bedroom will be ruined. I’d need the telly on full blast all day.”
Joyce is praying her grandson finds someone special to heal his broken heart.
She was on hand when his seven-year relationship with childhood sweetheart Amy Gibson, 24, came to a sudden end in 2019.
Joyce, who lives with Brad in the Northumberland harbour town of Amble, went on: “When he and Amy split up he was heartbroken. There’s no other word for it.
“He was asking me ‘Nana, what will I do?’ and I just had to say there was nothing he could do. He should try to move on and maybe she’d realise she’d made a mistake.
“They made a nice couple but sometimes these things just aren’t to be and you have to try to get over it.”
Keen gymnast Amy’s family are still close to Brad – and even brought his birthday presents round on the day he jetted off to film Love Island. Retired pub cleaner Joyce shrugged: “I didn’t really know what to tell them so I just said he was out gallivanting – which I suppose he is.”
The bond between Joyce and Brad was cemented at a young age when his mum Kimberley, 44, began a new relationship.
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At the time, she and Brad lived with Joyce and it was decided he would stay while Kimberley moved to Tyneside.
Joyce said: “Me and Brad are like mother and son. He sometimes calls me Mother and I like that.
“It’s just been me in the house for a long time now and we get along together very well.
“His mum came to see me and she was pretty shocked to find he’d gone on Love Island as well.
“They’re in touch and get on fine, but I think I’ve been more like a mother to him most of his life.”
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Brad decided to apply for Love Island after suddenly finding himself single, never expecting to be selected.
Joyce had never even heard of the show until her clean-living grandson told her he’d been chosen as one of the 11 contestants.
“I said, ‘Well, that’s nice, son’, but I hadn’t a clue what he was talking about. I’d never heard of it,” she said.
“I only watch the soaps and then when they’re finished I get off to bed because I need my sleep. “But now I’ve read about it and it sounds like he’ll have loads of fun.
“I bet those lasses will love him because he’s the kindest, nicest lad they’ll ever have met.”
In his teaser video for the ITV2 show, Brad professed that while he may appear to be “a sh**ger”, he is in reality a “nice lad”.
And his gran can vouch for his caring side. Widower Joyce said: “I’m not in the best of health these days – I don’t get around very well but he can’t do enough to help me.
“He does the shopping and every time he goes out, he’ll shout, ‘Nana, is there anything you need?’
“He doesn’t smoke and he doesn’t drink much at all. When he does it’s something like a strawberry daiquiri. And he spends half his life in the gym.”
The evidence of Brad’s fitness regime is there for all to see – and his rippling torso is sure to get plenty of air time on Love Island.
Brad was 18 when left Amble’s Coquet High School and got a job in a furniture factory in the town.
But when it closed, he went on to become a painter and decorator and is now a self-employed “jack of all trades”, who works as a builder and general labourer.
Despite his new-found stardom, Joyce insists her place “will always be his home”.
She added: “I hope he meets a lovely lass, but it will have to be someone good enough for him – or they’ll have his Nana to answer to!”
Originally from https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/love-islands-brad-mcclellands-gran-24404791