Michael Owen has opened up on why his daughter Gemma always seems so serious in the Love Island villa. According to the former Liverpool FC footballer, Gemma, 19, has a game plan and has been using her stern and moody demeanour as a tactic in the luxury Majorcan pad.
Love Island fans have been debating Gemma's facial expressions and 'cold nature' since the international dressage rider first appeared on screens. But as time has gone on, viewers have warmed to the brunette beauty.
While she appears to be popular in the villa - with both the boys and girls - Gemma's dad has revealed that she can be a 'nightmare' to live with at their £4m home in Cheshire. The 42-year-old admitted his daughter has 'a game face', like him, when it comes to her horse dressage contests - and can be a 'horror' to live with during those times because she wants to win so badly.
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"Match day or if it's a big competition, going into that ring, she turns into a horror," he explained.
"It's like that's it - you get your game face on.
"I didn't want anyone talking to me on match day. She's the same, she's horrible. Stay out of her way when a competition's coming round. That's how much it means."
The Mirror reports Love Island viewers have been left convinced that ITV2 producers are keeping Gemma in the villa until her footballer dad Michael can appear on the show.
Fans began circulating the theory after the latest public vote, which saw the 19-year-old saved from the bottom three girls at risk of being axed in a double dumping.
ITV2 viewers have since suggested that Gemma could be kept on the show in a bid to ensure that her football legend dad makes an appearance.
As the series approaches its finale, the contestants’ families enter the villa and they get to meet their relative’s new partners.
Fans have now theorised that Gemma will be kept on the ITV2 dating show until that episode, so that producers can get the famous striker onto Love Island.
Taking to Twitter, one fan speculated: “So anyone with a rich dad who comes on the show is never leaving…”
Another added: “You actually think Gemma won that vote? ekin-su isn’t the nepotism baby here.”
And a third wrote: “I think the reason Gemma is getting a main character edit rn is partly because if she stays till the end, the producers know they could bring her dad into the villa when they do the family visit episode. Imagine the attention that ep would get???”
This comes after Love Island producers are said to be pulling out all the stops to get Michael Owen to appear in the villa during the final week’s “meet the parents” task.
