Love Island fans demand George is kicked off the show before it even starts after vile Tweets are revealed
WITH just days to go before Love Island begins, one of the new singletons has been branded “controlling” and a “cheat” by his ex.
And if that’s not bad enough for George Fensom, a string of his homophobic tweets have resurfaced online.
Viewers rounded on ITV, urging them to reconsider casting the 24-year-old business exec from Bedford.
It comes after the channel was forced to bring in care measures for its Islanders this year after both the boys and girls were accused of gaslighting and coercive behaviour in past series.
Fans yesterday reacted to George’s tweets, posted in 2014, the contents of which I have chosen not to repeat.
A viewer wrote: “It’s clear ITV are full of s**t when it comes to safeguarding & duty of care, they’ve cast a guy called George on Love Island who is V problematic re misogyny and homophobia.”
A second raged: “@LoveIsland get rid of George!! @ITV why do you REPEATEDLY cast people who are publicly problematic?”
George took the chance to defend himself yesterday ahead of the new series launch on Monday.
He told The Sun: “I feel sick about those tweets. They are not who I am today and if I could turn back time I wouldn’t even have put those.”
The account is now deleted, but the contents have been widely circulated since George was announced as part of the 2023 cast.
Separately, an older video from his ex-girlfriend went viral on TikTok.
After they broke up last year, she shared photos of their time together, labelling him a cheat and a narcissist and wrote that he was “controlling over what she wore” and “constantly lied and made empty promises”.
Quizzed by The Sun on her claims, George said: “That isn’t an accusation that reflects me at all and I feel quite upset about that.”
Asked why the girl made the claims, George added: “I didn’t wish to continue with the relationship . . . but I suppose she wasn’t happy with the outcome.
But I’m not this person. I’m a nice, funny guy with terrible dad jokes.”
No one seems to be laughing now.
RUCHEE NAILS IT
THE girls might want to keep on contestant Ruchee Gurung’s good side – because she’s got a secret gameplan.
The beautician joked she could bodge her rivals’ nail paint if they stole her man.
She laughed: “Everyone is like, ‘You’re going to be popular in the villa as everyone is going to want you to do nails’. I can do threading too.
“I was like, ‘Yeah, nobody had better p*** me off!’ I’ll be like, ‘Oops sorry!’”
HYDE HOPES
SEMI-pro footballer Tyrique Hyde wonders if any skeletons will tumble out of the closet when he’s in the villa.
Chatting from his isolation hideout yesterday, the lad said: “I have thought, ‘I wonder what girls that I have been with in the past are gonna say’.
“I feel I’m on good terms with everyone. I don’t think they’ll have anything too bad to say – maybe they will be jealous.
“I’ve got a 90% success rate. Whoever I go for I usually end up getting.”
PRIDE OF PLACE ON BBC
BBC Three will commemorate Pride month with a host of shows celebrating all things LGBTQ+ across June.
Six more programmes have been added into the mix after I revealed that I Kissed A Boy would return for a reunion special this month.
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK is back, while a former winner of the show reunites with her drag family in Keeping Up With Krystal Versace.
Years & Years singer Olly Alexander opens up about his mental health battle and pop culture in Growing Up Gay, plus Lily: A Transgender Story details teenager Lily Jones’ transition from male to female.
Bafta-nominated drama Pride and new mockumentary sketch show This Is Gay are part of the schedule.
THREE COURSE WINNER
IT’S the MasterChef final tomorrow night.
But who will lift the trophy? Here the three finalists, Anurag, Chariya and Omar, open up about their dreams of winning.
Anurag
THE accountant says winning the show would be the springboard to launch his food empire.
He says: “My dream is to launch a chain of Indian fine dining restaurants.
“Most important would be the flavour combinations. They’d have to be mind-blowing.”
Chariya
THE coffee supremo has proven to be a whizz under pressure with a miraculous recovery in an earlier round when she saved her bake.
She says: “I forgot to put 20 eggs in my cake then I realised it tasted like biscuits so I served it as a biscuit base, which worked out well.”
Omar
THE toy developer admits judges Gregg Wallace and John Torode aren’t as scary as they seem.
He says they “feel like your fun, encouraging uncles”.
Omar also says that if he wins, he’s giving the trophy to his mum to “stop the tears of pride from flowing.”
BEAR IS TOP FOR FLOPS
BEAR GRYLLS has branded himself the “greatest TV flop in history”.
He reckons he has earned the title because so many of his shows have been axed.
Bear explains: “I wrote out the number of shows we’ve had, like Get Out Alive, that have been one-season disasters.
“It was something like 32 shows that have been canned before they’ve hardly started airing.
“Technically, on paper, I’m the greatest TV flop in history.
“Nobody in the history of TV has had more shows that they own that have been cancelled than me.”
Bear is in the new series of BBC One’s Who Do You Think You Are? later this month.
Hope that’s not the death knell for that show.