Amber Gill, the fifth-season winner of Love Island, said she was glad she “felt off” the fame train because it served as a wake-up call in the pressure of post-villain life.
Love Island winner Amber Gill has admitted that she’s glad she “fell off” the fame train after her appearance on the hit reality TV show.
Amber won series five of the show with ex-partner Greg O’Shea. She was in the villa with the likes of Tommy Fury, Molly-Mae Hague and Maura Higgins.
Amber and Greg broke up just five weeks after the pair won the prize money. Shortly after their split, Amber called herself the “first solo winner of Love Island”.
Amber reflected on her life both prior to and right after the show in an interview with her podcast Just Existing. She revealed that she had little to no experience and extreme pressure to produce content after gaining more than two million followers from her show appearance.
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“[Before the show] I didn’t really post anything so it was throwing me very firmly into the deep end,” she said. “It was getting to the point where I was getting like 900,000 likes on an Instagram photo which is insane and I was still thinking, ‘Why is it not a million? How come I only got 2000 comments and why not 3000?'”
“I kind of felt like I needed to go a little off balance just to have a reality check and be grateful for what’s happening around us,” Amber continued. “I feel completely disconnected, and I think that time in my life was very anxious-inducing.”
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Amber remarked that “a lot of pressure is on you to make sure you’re always doing what you’re supposed to do.”
She has collaborated with Misspap to create a clothing line since her appearance on the show. She was underrepresented in the media when she was younger, so she co-wrote a book called Until I Met You, which was based on a Black love story. In July 2022, the book was published.
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Source: Mirror
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