Gone are the days when Love Island contestants were ordinary people with less than 1000 Instagram followers. These days, contestants on the ITV2 dating show are much more likely to be the children of some of Britain’s richest and most famous parents.
Islanders are often discreet about who their famous family is when they first get to the villa, but as the show plays out, some contestants are itching to name-drop their successful parents. Like when Gemma Owen casually admitted her dad was the football legend Michael Owen last summer, or when the son of Boyzone frontman Ronan Keating popped up in the same season. This year, so far, we have one confirmed nepo baby on the lineup, Molly Marsh – the 21-year-old daughter of Coronation Street actor Janet Marsh.
