Love Island’s winter series will return on January 16 with a new batch of hopefuls looking for romance.
And one of the contestants, Lana Jenkins, already has a famous love life after dating Hollyoaks and I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here star Owen Warner.
The 25-year-old makeup artist enjoyed a summer romance with the famous actor in 2020, following his very public split from Stephanie Davies.
Ex: Following his breakup with Stephanie, Owen found love with celebrity makeup artist Lana Jenkins after being introduced through mutual friends (pictured together in 2020)
Lana and Owen confirmed their romance via Instagram when she shared a sweet snapshot of them together in June 2020.
The duo smiled as they huddled outside in the now-deleted image, holding hands.
While Owen also left flirty comments on the blonde beauty’s posts, and one still remains in a post from July of that year.
They began dating after Owen’s split from fellow soap opera star Stephanie, whom he dated for nine months before their split in September 2019.
Contestant: Lana is a make-up artist from Luton and met Owen through mutual friends two years before she signed up for Love Island.
Story: Owen dated the beauty in the summer of 2020, following his split from Stephanie Davis
Glowing: Sweetly commented on one of Lana’s photos from July 2020, during their relationship
Lana and Owen found love after being introduced through mutual friends when she He worked on CBBC’s So Awkward and was good friends with many of the Hollyoaks cast.
However, just a few months later, it was reported that the couple had sadly decided to part ways.
But keeping the relationship under wraps, Lana revealed a slightly different encounter when asked by ITV2 for a “claim to fame”.
The beauty revealed that she appeared in an episode of the TV sitcom Benidorm when she was six and living in Spain, while today her job as a make-up artist sees her working with ‘a lot of celebrities’.
All in: Revealing that she falls in love quickly, Lana told ITV2: “I tend to find out very early on if I could fall in love with that person and then as long as everything goes well I’ll probably tell them I love them.” About a week’
Social: Lana has almost 4,000 followers on her Instagram profile, which will now remain inactive during her time on the show.
Lana also revealed that she falls in love quickly, explaining, ‘I tend to find out pretty soon if I could fall for that person and then as long as everything goes well I’ll probably tell them I love them in about a week.’
As for what grosses him out, it’s the overzealous texting. “I don’t mind people texting me all the time, but if you send me question marks if I haven’t texted back in a while, you’re gone.” ‘ She insists.
‘That’s a big red flag for me! Also, if I see a guy tripping, that’s an instant turn-off.
Lana has almost 4,000 followers on her Instagram profile, which will now remain inactive during her time on the show.
She will join a host of young contestants looking for love on the show, with the lineup including its first partially sighted contestant, 26-year-old Ron Hall.
The ninth season of Love Island will be hosted for the first time by Maya Jama, after Laura Whitmore stepped down from her role following the tragic death of former host Caroline Flack in 2020.
In an interview with over the weekend, Maya revealed that she did not have to audition to host Love Island and accepted the hosting job immediately.
She said The times: ‘Once you start doing television, you meet a lot of producers, through different shows, and the bosses will notice the talent. . . That’s weird, calling yourself talent, isn’t it? I speak for a living. It’s not exactly tap dancing everywhere or performing a ballad.
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“So I think I’ve always been in his line of sight, but I was very young when the host changes happened in the past.”
The host was having some time off when she got the call about the Love Island concert, explaining, “I got the call saying ‘we want to meet you.’ I’m trying to think! Anyway, I didn’t have to audition.”
Asked if she said yes right away, Maya exclaimed, ‘Right away! Of course! golden ticket.’
Record viewership figures saw the latest series of Love Island, which aired in the summer of 2022, become the most watched series on ITV Hub, amassing over 269 million streams.
The winter debut series aired in January 2020, shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic, and was won by Paige Turley and Finn Tapp.
New recruit: Love Island’s ninth season will be hosted for the first time by Maya Jama, after Laura Whitmore stepped down from her role last year.