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Susan Knox

Amber Davies says Love Island is 'too vicious' and she wouldn't appear on it now

Love Island winner Amber Davies has insisted she wouldn't appear on the ITV2 dating show if she were to enter it now.

The 25-year-old star championed the dating show in 2017 alongside her ex-boyfriend Kem Cetinay.

Despite winning the show, Amber admitted that there's not a chance she would appear on it now because it has become 'too vicious'.

The brunette bombshell has also warned that new contestants will need a 'thick skin' because of the abuse they may face on social media.

Amber, who has gone on to have a successful acting and dance career since appearing on Love Island, said the hate that people get from the show is 'savage'.

Amber has gone on to have a successful acting and dance career since appearing on Love Island (PA)
The brunette bombshell has warned that new contestants will need a 'thick skin' (Humphrey Nemar / Daily Mirror)

"When I did it five years ago it wasn’t as vicious as it is now — the hate online that they all get, it’s savage," she insisted.

“I’m so glad I did it when I did. I was only 20 when I won, and when I look back I think, ‘Wow, I was really strong’. The new contestants need to have a good support system and a really thick skin," she told The Sun.

It comes after Amber recently admitted that she wishes she attended therapy sessions after her stint on Love Island.

Amber won the 2017 of Love Island (PA)

During the height of the Covid pandemic, Amber came to the realisation that she should have went to therapy when she left the villa.

Speaking to Roxie Nafousi on The Moments That Made Me podcast, Amber said: "I’ve experienced so much and yet in lockdown I was the saddest I’ve ever been in my life.

“I think that was because I was processing everything, I was processing absolutely everything that had happened.

“All I wished that I’d done differently was that I had therapy as soon as I came out or six months after I came out.

Amber said she should have went to therapy after appearing on Love Island (Rowan Griffiths / Daily Mirror)
The brunette bombshell has put her Love Island stint behind her (amb_d/Instagram)

“I think I would have handled things so differently,” she explained.

Speaking to Roxie Nafousi on The Moments That Made Me podcast, Amber said: "I’ve experienced so much and yet in lockdown I was the saddest I’ve ever been in my life.

“I think that was because I was processing everything, I was processing absolutely everything that had happened.

“All I wished that I’d done differently was that I had therapy as soon as I came out or six months after I came out.

Amber is now a successful actress and dancer (Instagram)

“I think I would have handled things so differently,” she explained.

She admitted that she did have therapy after taking "a bit of a weird turn" during lockdown and that's when she started to open up about the transition in her life.

“That’s all you need, you just need to talk about it,” she confessed.

“I’ve been 100 miles an hour for the last four years so when it all came to this silence I was like, I don’t know who I am, I need to be working.”

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