Michael Owen reveals he refused to watch Gemma take part in Love Island’s raunchy challenges

Michael Owen has revealed he refused to watch his daughter Gemma take part in Love Island’s raunchy challenges. 

The football legend, 42, admitted he couldn’t watch his eldest daughter ‘kiss people’ on the ITV2 dating show and told The Sun: ‘It wasn’t the best of conversations when she first asked me about going on Love Island.’  

The international dressage rider, 19, finished in second place alongside beau Luca in the Love Island final, narrowly missing out on the £50,000 prize money.

Michael continued: ‘She’s pretty sensible and she’s a good kid and I had no worries. I just didn’t bring myself to watch some of the challenges and things like that.

‘I don’t like seeing my daughter kiss people, but I probably watched 30 to 40% of the show.

‘On the days that I didn’t watch, I was on the phone to the wife (Louise) at five past ten asking, ‘how did she do?’

The retired England player added: ‘I know it’s been great feedback and she’s done well. I think it’s been good for – she’s had a good time.’

It comes after Gemma showed off the huge training space at her £4million mansion on Sunday.

The reality TV star could be seen demonstrating a number of dressage moves on her horse Sirius in the social media video. 

She shares the stables with her brother James, 16, and sister Emily, 14, and Jessica, 12 at their parents home. 

She also shared the sweet moment she introduced beau Luca Bish to her equestrian life and one of her champion horses.

Gemma, whose riding passion began when she was just aged seven took to her Instagram to share an image of the fishmonger on the grounds of her Cheshire mansion while she was all saddled up. 

Earlier in the day Luca, 23, took to his TikTok account to share the ‘adorable’ moment the couple were reunited after being apart for 24 hours. 

As the Brighton native makes way from his Range Rover, Gemma can be seen running out to him barefoot and leaping into his arms. 

Captioning the fifteen second clip, Luca wrote:  ‘POV: You’ve not seen each other for 24 hours after spending every single together for the last two months.’