Love Island contestants

The hit UK reality TV show returned this week with a new host, contestants, and a change to its social media policy.

However, popular contestants have gained huge social media and public followings from the show and gone on to lucrative careers as influencers and presenters. Banning use of these accounts will limit contestants’ ability in these areas until they leave the villa. Love Island has had an unpleasant run of tragic news in the past few years. But this time, the fresh-faced stars of the latest series won’t have active social media profiles for the duration of the show. If it passes, social media platforms will be more responsible for ensuring children only see age-appropriate materials. Instead, friends or family have operated the accounts.

Tasha Ghouri's dad Tarek has got very important advice for fellow parents of Love Island stars (Picture: Instagram/Twitter/Getty).

It was a couple of days after that that we were like, we need to tell people that this isn’t okay. ‘You start believing there are more negative than positive when you start reading all the negative and it’s not true. At the time, he reached out to Luca Bish’s sister, who was managing his account. Those people will always find a way to get to you. Initially, Tarek shares that he did try and engage with the trolls. Life changed after me and my ex-wife decided to stop looking at the bad stuff.’ ‘She was in tears and getting death threats and all sorts of stuff. We already had a very strong bond, but it’s brought us even closer together which is a big positive.’ [Love Island](https://metro.co.uk/tag/love-island/?ico=auto_link_entertainment_P1_LNK1) well underway, a parent of a former islander has shared crucial advice for fellow family members on how to deal with trolling. I was told there were psychologists on site too. ‘It was difficult,’ he remembers. There was a time that the abuse was so bad that he even considered flying out to Majorca to pull her out of the villa.

As we return to a new series of ITV's Love Island, we take a look back at the past contestants from London.

[Tyler Cruickshank](https://www.instagram.com/tylercruickshank_/?hl=en), now 27, coupled up with Clarisse Juliette and Kaz Kamwi, and went on to finish in fourth place with Kaz. They went on to receive the fewest public votes and were dumped from the villa. [Shaughna Phillips](https://www.instagram.com/shaughnaphillips/?hl=en), now 28, coupled up with Callum Jones three times, however, Callum then chose to re-couple with Molly Smith, leaving Shaughna single and dumped from the villa. He finished in third place with India, and they stayed together for four months after the show. [Jack Fowler](https://www.instagram.com/_jackfowler_/), now 27, coupled up with Laura Anderson, before re-coupling with Laura Crane. [Mike Thalassitis](https://www.instagram.com/p/BuozZ-qBY_8/), then 24, from North London, initially coupled up with Olivia Attwood, but after receiving the fewest public votes was chosen to leave the villa. [Amelia Peters](https://www.instagram.com/ameliapeters1/), now 24, entered the Casa Amor villa on day 26 and two days later she failed to couple up, so she was dumped from the island. [Marcel Somerville](https://www.instagram.com/marcel_rockyb/), now 37, finished in fourth place alongside Gabby Allen, after leaving the villa they stayed together for nine months before calling it quits. [Daniel Lukakis](https://www.instagram.com/daniellukakis/), now 30, initially coupled up with Olivia Buckland and then Zara Holland, but in week three the other islanders chose to dump him from the island. [Luis Morrison](https://www.instagram.com/luismorrison39/?hl=en), now 28, finished in fourth place alongside Cally Jane Beech, and they went on to become the first islanders to have a baby together - but split shortly after. Advertisement New host, [Maya Jama](/topic/maya-jama), 28, from Bristol, eagerly introduced the new group of singletons who are set to take on weekly challenges and make their re-coupling choices.

Ron Hall · Tanya Manhenga · Kai Fagan · Tanyel Raven · Haris Namani · Anna-May Robey · Shaq Muhammad · Lana Jenkins.

[Lana Jenkins](https://thetab.com/uk/2023/01/16/lana-love-island-2023-289948) is 25 years old and is from Luton. [Haris](https://thetab.com/uk/2023/01/16/haris-namani-winter-love-island-2023-289945) is a 21-year-old TV salesman from Doncaster. Love Island 2023 continues at 9pm on ITV2 and ITVX. Anna said she is still single because she is “fussy and gets the ick easily”. Haris is the youngest boy in the villa. Love Island seems to get younger and younger as the years go on and this year a lot of fans are not convinced by how old some of the Islanders have been saying they are.