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'Love Island bosses may not have been able to show Gemma's famous dad mention', says Shaughna Phillips

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Love Island's Shaughna Phillips has shared a theory over why viewers somehow missed the highly-anticipated reveal that Gemma Owen's famous dad is footballer Michael Owen.

Aftersun viewers were left stunned on Sunday night when dumped star Ikenna Ekwonna told the panel that the Islanders discovered Gemma was the footballer's daughter on the "second or third day" in the villa.

Ikenna told host Laura Whitmore: "'We didn't really know until the second or third day but I don't think the girls knew the guys knew." Talking about why the moment wasn't possibly aired on TV, Love Island columnist Shaughna, 28, exclusively told OK!

during our weekly live Instagram Let's Chat, Hun why this could have happened. After it was pointed out just how random Ikenna's unexpected reveal was, Shaughna guessed: "I think it may be because it happened in a way that they can't show it. "Because when the bombshells come in, we always seem to get a little bit of outside information before they're told to stop talking," the star explained. "So maybe one of the bombshells, probably Jacques [O'Neill], said it, and it happened in a way that they couldn't really air it." The theory would make sense given Jacques and 19 year old Gemma's prior history before he arrived on the show.The pair once dated for around eight months a year and a half ago and as soon as Jacques entered the villa Gemma was taken-aback to discover the latest bombshell was her very own ex.

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