It's just days since the 2023 winter series of Love Island launched on ITV2 and already three bombshells have entered the villa to cause a stir among the 10 original contestants. But fans of the reality show have been left a little confused about one of them who has gone 'missing'.
During the launch show on Monday, January 16, it had been teased that either semi-professional footballer Tom Clare or business development executive Ellie Spence would be entering the villa that night after a viewer vote. While 23-year-old Tom was chosen, Ellie has been nowhere to be seen since, despite two more bombshells - model and property developer Zara Deniz Lackenby-Brown, 25, and money advisor David Salako, 24 - making an appearance on Wednesday, January 18.
Ellie has yet to make her entrance despite being heavily promoted by ITV and fans have been left puzzled, reports The Mirror. For more showbiz and TV news, sign up to our newsletter here.
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"JUSTICE FOR ELLIE #LoveIsland," wrote one viewer, as another added: "Are we getting that Ellie girl at some point? Imagine being in that much promo and not getting even a day in the villa. #LoveIsland."
A third shared: "Missing: Ellie Because where is this girl she was supposed to be in the original line up #LoveIsland."
Another asked: "Does Ellie not get to enter the villa or is she coming in much later? #LoveIsland," while a fifth said: "But like what’s up with the Ellie girl? Did the producers forget her on the airport or what? #LoveIsland."
Ahead of the show starting, viewers were given a chance to vote which bombshell they wanted to enter first, with fans being asked to choose between Norwich-based Ellie, who works at a law firm, and Tom, a semi-pro footballer from Barnsley whose manager at Macclesfield FC is former Wales football international Robbie Savage, you can read the club's statement about Tom joining Love Island here.
The viewers voted in Tom who went on to steal Olivia Hawkins from farmer Will Young, which left many viewers unhappy.
Speaking before she joined the show, Ellie said she was ready "to find a husband". She said: I’ve been single for three years and the roster is pretty dry, it’s been dry for the last year, I don’t know what happened, it’s just not been a great time for me so I’m ready to find my husband.
"I’m single because I fall in love really quick, but I fall out of it just as quickly. I could literally fall in love with a chair and then a week later be like, ‘Oh wait, no, that's a chair…’ I fall in love quickly because I build up a character of someone in my head and then they breathe in the wrong direction and I’m like, 'Next!' I fall in love quickly, but I can fall out of it just as quickly."
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