Kady McDermott says she was replaced by another Love Island star last year
ok.co.ukLove Island OG Kady McDermott has revealed she was due to head back to the iconic villa last year, but she was replaced. Sitting down with Made in Chelsea alum Sam Thompson and TOWIE’s Pete Wicks on their Staying Relevant podcast - dubbed their “weekly quest for fame” - Kady offered insight into her decision making process ahead of her return to the show that first catapulted her into the limelight back in 2016.
The brunette beauty, 27, said: “I originally got asked last year to go back in, instead of Adam Collard but two days before, they called me up, they said, ‘we basically need a bombshell, with how it’s going, we need a boy one, not a girl’.” She added: “So I wasn't massively shocked when they asked me again this year.” The reality star was hesitant about taking part, even after agreeing to join this summer’s series.
She continued: “A part of me was like, ‘I’m not doing it, I’m not doing it’ - I was still 50/50 from the moment I walked into the villa, I was like ‘what am I doing?’ but with me, I don’t want to be like, in 10 years’ time, ‘oh I wish I’d done that’.
I’d rather have been like, ‘oh s**t, I did that’.” Reflecting on her choice further, she said: “I’m 28 this year, I think this is kind of my last time to do it.
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