Saturday, December 21, 2019

Who Are These Newbies? - Ex On The Beach Peak of Love: The Brits

Reposted in Shorter Form from Original Post on Thursday

BY DC CUEVA                        
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 GEORGIA STEEL - Love Island UK ðŸ‡¬ðŸ‡§
This year, Love Island became a true global TV phenomenon when CBS debuted the series in the U.S. over the summer and joined reality powerhouses Big Brother, Survivor and Amazing Race in its roster. In Britain, the original iteration of this franchise gave us War of the Worlds finalists Georgia Harrison & Theo Campbell and a rookie on WOTW2, Idris Virgo. Next on its docket is its first series to air during the British winter next month when South Africa hosts Love Island 5 during the heat of their summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and one of its most successful alumni (and Idris' fellow Islander from that summer of 2018) is its first representative to go from Islander to going onto the Beach, no less the first one from overseas to come to America and its own EOTB.
   Georgia Steel grew up in Thirsk, a small neighborhood in North Yorkshire in the Northwest of England, where she balanced studies of entering the acting world at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in London with working as a waitress at the Chelsea location of UK nightclub brand Popworld. She was in a three-year relationship starting at age 15 until going to college in the capital became too much to handle a long-distance affair. Georgia described herself as being a "party animal" who calls her bottom her "best asset" along with her natural lips and eyes, and she's used her Instagram to best show off her outfits of the day both by the pool and before a club night.
   When it comes to relationships, Georgia's ideal date night would be of going out for a drink and then heading to the club... and after having a bad date at a seafood restaurant she will want to make sure to check that menu of the kind of food she and him would like. But she's also one who doesn't like guys who are cringy: "Cringy really turns me off. I like someone who's real and treats me like a lady. I also like someone who is manly, protective and fun. It’s good if they have a bit of banter about them." But most importantly, Georgia touts loyalty as her best attribute, something that she had to deal with after her biological dad, British horse racing jockey Rodney Lappin, divorced from her mom when she was age 4, and she told The Sun that her parents' separation had an impact on how she handles both her love life and herself.
   It was in drama school that, according to her mom Sharon, that she was begged by the teachers themselves to audition for Love Island in which, "It's a good stepping stone for Georgia, It's the best opportunity." And her daughter was chosen for Series 4 of Love Island UK in summer 2018, but she arrived in the Balearic Islands and the famed villa later than the first set of singles who came to Spain, as the first two newbies during the summer's first week and one of four to have gone to college. And she looked to reverse fortunes after dating someone well known but it's best to keep it all inside: "I went on a date with someone famous – but a girl doesn’t tell her secrets. He was quite into me. But I let that go. All I'll say is they had famous relatives. I'm very out there but when it comes to my private life I’m quite reserved."
   Once she moved in on Day 4, a public vote saw one of her two exes this winter, Niall Aslam of Coventry in the West Midlands, go on a date with Georgia and they stayed together in the first re-coupling ceremony until he quit the following week. She then coupled with Londoner and eventual 3rd place finisher Josh Denzel in Week 2 before he got close to a makeup artist & eventual final partner Kazimir Crossley. That helped bring together Georgia with her other EOTB ex, Sam Bird from Norwich in East Anglia, and they went on dates with other islanders (including one week involving that aforementioned Idris) the following two weeks. When Week 7 came along, Georgia and Sam were apart in the villa and were thrown a twist of not being allowed to pick each other in that week's recoupling... but when they did not choose other islanders both Georgia & Sam were dumped two weeks from the end, and it was the start to their magical but later doomed relationship - more on that when he comes to New Zealand.




Besides her time on Love Island, Georgia has also appeared two shows for the UK's E4 channel: she was on the winter 2019 series of Celebs Go Dating with two series Ex On The Beach alum, reality veteran and singer Megan McKenna, who's been on MTV, Celeb Big Brother, Britain's Got Talent, The Only Way is Essex and earlier this month won a celebrity version of The X Factor UK (and dated Georgia's fellow LI 4 castmate, the late Mike Thalassitis). Most recently, UK fans saw Georgia on a celebrity version of Road Trip, the country's own take on MTV's Road Rules along with Georgie Shore's Vicky Pattinson and which brought them to the city best known for its annual film festival, Cannes... and she also appeared on MTV UK's version of Cribs - clips below.
   In addition, Georgia can also relate to AYTO'er turned Challenger Kam in having had experiences of where they realized that they were becoming romantic with those who've broken the law. This past spring, she began dating a man she thought was a wealthy American, but more than a month into that relationship The Sun tabloid reported that the person she dated was a fraudster and former footballer from a team in the English Football League's Championship division, Medi Abalimba, who was convicted five years earlier of posing as an former Chelsea player and who spent oodles of money on all sorts of gear and lavish lifestyle based off of stolen credit cards from private gyms in London... think of the Grunt Guy mess of last year but in British soccer.








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 CALLUM IZZARD - Ibiza Weekender ðŸ‡¬ðŸ‡§
In the U.S., there's many destinations to choose from for vacation and pleasure when the mercury rises to its highest levels & hottest temperatures, but when it comes to those in Europe one place almost comes to mind for most come summertime, and it's not far from that Love Island villa. It may share the same latitude as Atlantic City and the the same Mediterranean climate as L.A., but Ibiza has become the nightlife capital of the Union, with its many clubs and EDM playing all night long the same way those in Vegas love to party hard. That is where we find the last of our seven singles who are new to Team MTV.
   Back in 2013, a hybrid of Vanderpump Rules and Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club, Ibiza Weekender, began airing, and the ITV2 show documents young Brits working at a hotel resort first in nearby Magaluf for its first few years, and then moved in Ibiza two years later. The show's star is Welshman Jordan Davies, who's appeared on all eight series of Weekender, and who's been on three series of Ex On The Beach U.K. alongside six future Challengers - Ashley C., Bear, Kayleigh, Joss, Melissa and Rogan, plus his ex in the aforementioned Megan, and Vicky & her Geordie Shore mate Scotty T. And he was a houseguest on Celeb Big Brother UK in 2017 alongside Bad Chad of EOTB2.
   A person who joined Jordan and the rest of the reps and interns who work for the hotel starting with seventh series last year was Callum Izzard, a 24-year-old from Doncaster in South Yorkshire. As a teenager, he took on stage roles in a local production of Grease, won his town's local version of Got Talent, and possesses a drama BA in college while also doing some modeling gigs and having his own trendy streetwear clothing line. And he joined the hotel group during Series 7 of Weekender as an assistant head rep, and made strong impressions of the management team being named him Rep of the Week a few times during the summer.
   Outside work, he earned a reputation as its resident player, where he made out with a few girls in Ibiza including one night where he got to kiss girls blindfolded at the club and brought them home to the villa. He also had a girl he met up with one night get stolen by Jordan, and Cal even had a girl's name tattooed after meeting her... and it made the family of one of his hookups, Chloe Chaloner of Manchester, cringe at their daughter kissing him. But twice Cal has narrowly escaped much harm: while filming he was mugged at knife point while en route back to the hotel, and this past summer was subjected to racial abuse from trolls on the street.
   Like Georgia, Bear and others, Callum has also appeared on Celebs Go Dating - in fact, the 5th series and before Georgia's in fall 2018, and he did something a bit unusual: bringing two girls to the final date of his series. But it was a revelation he made during the matchmaking process that raised eyebrows: when CGD's resident dating agent, Nadia Essex, asked him about the number of girls who he's slept with - it was him revealing that he had slept with 250 women(!?) that had him apologize to Dr. Nadia. And it all came after he was caught kissing his TV ex Chloe that put him in the same words as Dre from AYTO1: they came onto their dating shows not exactly being single. Oops...








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