Ovie Soko thinks ‘Love Island’ should ban social media stars.
The 29-year-old basketball player was a huge hit on last summer’s series of the ITV2 show but he believes producers should recruit people who haven’t been in the public eye before as viewers will find them more "relatable".
He told Mirror TV: "I’ve said that, in my opinion, I would rather [they] go and pluck them from work places and pluck them from all over, people that can really relate to. People will tune in massively because then they’re more relatable, they’re not people who have been in the public eye so they might have learnt how to carry themselves.
"At the end of the day, ‘Love Island’ is a social experiment. so the best social experiment is one that you can have the most normal people possible, not the people whose job requires them to be in the public eye, requires them to maybe carry themselves a certain way.
"People can really, really relate to the postman and to the milkman and the baristas because these are the kind of people you come across every single day."
Ovie also warned fans not to trust everything they see on screen.
He explained: "I think whenever we’re looking as this we need to take more into account the producers. We don’t give them enough credit in the papers and as fans we don’t give them enough.
"The producers, they make the storylines, they put the music behind it, they create the theatrics, they record the storyline that they want to record and they don’t show the parts they don’t want to record."
Ovie Soko’s Love Island plea
