Love Island star looks unrecognisable in throwback selfie as we reveal show favourites’ radical villa transformations
A NEW batch of perfectly plucked and preened singletons are heading into the Love Island villa next week.
The whole line-up has been released - and is full of sexy young things hoping to find love in the villa.
Among them is Michelle Keegan’s body double Olivia Hawkins entering, who looked very different before her Love Island makeover.
She’s not the only one, with a whole raft of contestants over the years making sure they've bulked up, slimmed down, or dyed their hair just in time for their TV debut.
We reveal the other Love Island stars who looked very different before they shot to fame…
Faye Winter
Faye Winter has now had most of her filler removed, but when she entered Love Island in 2021, she had a very big pout.
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The reality star was also very open about her cosmetic procedures, revealing she’d had lip fillers, breast implants and Botox.
But in pictures before the show, Faye looks totally different.
Posing with her lookalike sister Joanne, Faye could be seen smiling and posing for selfies on a girls' night out.
Although still clearly a fan of all things glam, her look was much more natural, and her lips noticeably thinner.
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Millie Court
2021 winner Millie Court has sported a very chic, platinum blonde bob since she’s been in the public eye.
But that wasn’t always the case, as a family snap taken in 2015 showed.
Millie’s mum Esme shared a picture standing between Millie and Millie’s sister Jessie.
And Millie had dark brown hair rather than a blonde barnet.
Megan Barton Hanson
When Megan Barton Hanson walked into the Love Island villa in 2018, she absolutely wowed with her stunning looks.
But pictures emerged of her looking extremely different when she was younger - having reportedly spent £40,000 on cosmetic surgery.
Megan has said she had her first surgery when she was 17, getting her ears pinned back after years of bullying in school.
She also opted to have rhinoplasty right before she approached her 20th birthday.
On top of that, Megan also had her lips injected with filler and completed her final procedure with a boob job, allowing her to enter the villa with an entirely new look.
Molly-Mae Hague
Molly-Mae Hague immediately turned Tommy Fury’s head when she entered the villa in 2019 - and is still with him now, pregnant with their first child.
But the peroxide blonde looked very different before, sporting natural brown hair in old photos.
Ahead of her telly stint, Molly-Mae had lip and jaw filler, plus composite bond veneers put in - all of which she’s now had removed.
And the old photos show her looking much more natural than she did in the villa - if anything, more like she does now!
Maura Higgins
Molly-Mae’s mate Maura Higgins also looked unrecognisable before she entered the villa as a bombshell in 2019.
In photos taken in 2012, Maura’s plumped-up pout is noticeably thinner.
Her figure is nowhere near as toned as it was when she was on Love Island either, and her pert bum is flatter.
Olivia Attwood
Olivia Attwood has always been very open and honest about cosmetic work and surgery she’s had done.
It was actually Olivia who posted her own before and after pictures showing how different she used to look before she was in Love Island’s 2017 series, and before she’d discovered filler.
Olivia has had lip filler and filler under her eyes, which she says she’s been having “for years”.
But after she looked back on her Love Island stint, she had some of her top lip filler removed, and said she had taken getting it done “too far”.
Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu
Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu has been very open about the amount of cosmetic surgery she had prior to appearing in Love Island.
The 2022 winner has detailed getting £1,200 worth of filler in her face, £4,000 veneers and a boob job.
And pictures of her emerged from her uni days while she was in the villa looking so different.
Not only was her caramel hair much darker in the old snaps, but her entire face was unrecognisable.
Andrew Le Page
While most people bulk up before going into Love Island, Andrew Le Page did the opposite last year.
In pictures from 2016, the reality star - who’s still dating co-star Tasha Ghouri - looks much more muscly, posing in the gym.
But that’s not all, as he also had long hair, as well as a beard, which he’d obviously cut for the show.
Luca Bish
Andrew’s Love Island co-star Luca Bish also had long hair before the show.
In an old video of Gemma Owen’s ex, which was shared on TikTok, Luca is sat in the back of a car with a very different look.
The video is also of Luca and his ex-girlfriend Sophie Floyd going to get veneers done together in Turkey.
Jacques O’Neill
Former rugby player Jacques O’Neill had a major glow-up in time for last year’s series of Love Island.
Pictures of him playing rugby show him looking slightly bigger than the muscly six-pack he had on the show.
He also managed to grow a beard, get a tan and a better haircut ahead of his TV stint too.
Shaughna Phillips
Shaughna Phillips revealed she lost four stone before she appeared on Love Island in 2020.
But she recently admitted she “used to be obsessed” with her weight, and she wasn’t happy.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, she said: "Before I went into Love Island, I had a really negative relationship with food and working out.
"I was like a drill sergeant, I was very disciplined, not really happy and still very, very insecure."
The reality star has shared many pictures of her weight loss journey, but that’s not all she changed about herself before the show.
Shaughna had a breast enlargement prior to Love Island, as well as lip fillers.
Eve and Jess Gale
When identical twin blonde bombshells Eve and Jess Gale walked into the Love Island villa in 2020, jaws dropped.
But pictures emerged of them looking so different - and their natural brown hair was just the start of it.
The girls have been very open about the work they had done before the show.
Sharing videos of some of their procedures on social media, the girls have had temple filler to lift the brows, cheek filler for "that snatched look" and anti-wrinkle injections.
Brad McLelland
Brad McLelland completely transformed his body in the years before he signed up to Love Island in 2021.
Brad documented his dramatic body change on Instagram, revealing how in just 10 weeks he stripped away his body fat to reveal lean muscle.
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In an interview with The Sun, he explained that he'd followed a carb-cycling diet plan, which involves going back and forth between high-carb days and low-carb days.
Showing off an impressive eight-pack while standing in his boxers, Brad was proud of his results.