Football hero Michael Owen has spilled the beans on why his daughter Gemma always looks so serious and moody in the Love Island villa.
According to Michael, Gemma, 19, has been using her stern demeanour as a 'game plan'.
Eagle-eyed Love Island viewers have been debating Gemma's 'moody' facial expressions and 'cold nature' since the brunette beauty first made her villa debut.
However, as time goes on, audiences 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 sports star has admitted that much like him, his daughter has 'a game face' when it comes to horse dressage contests - and can be a horror' to live with during those times because she's so focused on winning.
"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."
It comes as 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.
Love Island fans began circulating the theory amidst 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.
