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Love Island star Gemma Owen's St James' Park past as toddler when dad Michael played for Newcastle

The name that raised the most eyebrows from this year's Love Island line-up was Gemma Owen, daughter of football icon Michael.

In a big change of tact to how the contestants for the ITV dating show are revealed to the public, bosses drip fed the unveiling across Monday morning and into the afternoon, with each single being confirmed one-by-one. And it was when clocking Gemma's second name and reading her talking about her dad being a famous footballer, that many viewers clocked whose daughter she was.

Ahead of the new series of Love Island starting on Monday, Gemma has had a lot of people talking about her online, with many questioning whether Michael, an unexpected contestant on the last series of The Masked Singer, will be tuning in to watch.

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