Love Love Island? Our Factor 50 email brings all the goss direct to your inbox We have more newsletters Love Love Island? Our Factor 50 email brings all the goss direct to your inbox We have more newsletters Five years after winning Love Island, Amber Gill is the happiest she’s ever been and has no regrets about the show. That said, it hasn’t come without it downsides – dating difficulties for one, after she split from Arsenal footballer Jen Beattie – but she’s in the best place she’s ever been. Hot off the heels of a trip to Paris to watch Simone Biles clinch another medal at the Olympics, the 27-year-old Newcastle native is about to publish her second fiction novel, One Summer in Miami , and chats to us about embracing and representing queer joy, her biggest life lessons, and her love of therapy.
.. Hi Amber! It’s been five years since you won Love Island [with Greg O'Shea ], how do you feel about the show now? It definitely got me places in the first year or two after the villa, but five years later I don’t put everything I have down to Love Island .
I definitely don’t regret doing it, it’s opened the door to so many opportunities and experiences, but I think I’ve shaped my journey since into something different, which is what I was always going to do. Did you come out with a strategy to get to where you are now? No! I didn’t understand anything about the TV industry, or the influencer thing, I had no experience of it. I think part of any success aft.