Amber Gill shares thoughts on a queer version of Love Island
Love Island winner Amber Gill has given her thoughts on a queer version of the ITV show (Getty)
Amber Rose Gill, who won season four of heterosexual dating show Love Island in 2015 before coming out as queer, has shared her thoughts on a queer version of the programme.
It’s fair to say that ITV show Love Island, which sees various attractive straight people locked in a villa for a summer with the hopes of finding a good brand deal their one true love, does not have the smoothest relationship with queer people.
Despite multiple former contestants coming out as queer since, such as season four’s Megan Barton-Hanson and season six’s Eve Gale, there has not yet been an LGBTQ+ inclusive season of the show.
Speaking to PinkNews about her upcoming sapphic romance novel One Summer in Miami – available to pre-order now – Amber, who came out after winning the show with partner Greg O’Shea. has also reacted to the idea of a queer Love Island.
“I think that a queer Love Island would be kind of hard to pull off,” she explains, before paying dues to Dannii Mingoue’s I Kissed A Boy and I Kissed A Girl – the UK’s first dedicated queer dating shows.
“I think [those shows] are a good start, but I want more Love Island-esque stuff. You know, like this silliness of Love Island, how long it goes on, it’s on every night, and it’s live.”
Amber Gill continues: “I want to vote for people. I want a public vote, I want people to win prize money at the end, be crowned winners.
“I did love [I Kissed A Boy/ Girl], but Love Island just works really well – and I’d love to see [a queer version].”
Gill also jokes that if straight people were to watch a queer Love Island, they would be, “Eyes wide open, jaw agape. Shocked! For two months as well, all the [lesbians] would come out married!”
One Summer in Miami is available to preorder now, and will be released on 15 August.
