ExCLUSIVE: Jenny Powell claims that her 24th-generation daughter Connie, 24, has been asked to visit Love Island three times but has declined because she is too “old soul.”
Jenny Powell might be one of Britain’s most glamorous TV stars – but don’t expect her eldest daughter to be strutting round the Love Island villa in a tiny bikini any time soon.
In fact, Connie, Jenny’s 24-year-old first-born, has now politely declined an invite to join the smash-hit dating show not once, not twice – but THREE times, her mum reveals in an exclusive chat. “They’ve asked her three times now!” laughs Jenny, who at 57 (and looking about 37!) is still a firm TV favourite, regularly popping up on everything from Loose Women to presenting at this summer’s Rewind Festival.
Jenny, who has a 16-year-old daughter Pollyanna and her boyfriend Martin Lowe, 51, live in South Manchester, and expresses her secret relief that Connie isn’t interested in becoming a reality star.
She said, “I was on Loose Women and I suddenly received a call.” She was at the time of lockdown, she said. She said, “I’m studying art history at UCL, and I’m not interested in doing that!” She turned it down three times, in my opinion, which is quite cool! It really appeals to me. They are completely unimpressed if we ever meet them. They don’t care, either.
While Jenny and her youngest, Pollyanna, both claim that Connie and other 20-somethings are cut from a completely different cloth, as are many others.
“Connie posts on Instagram about once a year. Do you know what I mean? She’s not that person. And therefore I don’t think she would even realise the pressure and the attention she’d get. I think I’d worry for her.”
Connie’s grounded attitude, according to Jenny, was a result of a strong upbringing and the knock-on effects of a difficult few years during the pandemic.
“I just think we don’t realize in this day and age that despite all these young people, they all have this facade, are all so self-assured, and look a certain way, and all that.” However, in reality, I believe there is a significant fragility in the last couple of generations, particularly those who have experienced terrible suffering from COVID.
She actually earned a degree on her own, sitting in a room, for her. Those incredible undergraduate studies at UCL, which rival Oxford in terms of majors, were incredible. Three A stars surround her. Connie was a Mayfair resident at Maddox Galleries.
She now feels like she has accomplished enough there. She then moves to Knight Frank and lives with a friend in Manchester. She has a lovely boyfriend. She is very old. Old soul . Both of them are. Because these are difficult times, I believe it will help them get through them.
While Connie is not the only daughter of a famous British celebrity to be associated with the show, Princess Andre, 18, was also rumoured to be entering the villa but dad, Peter, quickly turned down those rumours.
In his exclusive weekly column about the rumours that eldest daughter Princess, who just turned 18, could be signing up to Love Island – he admits that he doesn’t know where the rumours came from, and says at 17 she can’t legally apply yet anyway.
He says: “There’s been a lot of talk about Princess going on Love Island, and I don’t know where it came from. She’s not 18 yet, so it’s not even an option.” He adds that, though he would support her if she wanted to sign up to the ITV2 show, it’s not something he’d ever choose for her.
“Whether she chooses to do it in the future is up to her, but of course it’s every dad’s nightmare. Then again, I look at people like Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury, and others, and see how happy they were in their relationships that came from the show. It’s about what makes Princess happy at the end of the day. I wouldn’t stop her, but if she asks my opinion, I’ll be honest.”
In a recent episode of her podcast, Katie Price revealed that she has tried to encourage her daughter Princess Andre to sign up for competition show Love Island. However, the model and entrepreneur has tellingly responded that she doesn’t want to be known as a ‘Love Islander’.
Source: Mirror
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