Kerry Katona has slammed Love Island after her daughter Lilly-Sue McFadden declined the ITV2 reality programme twice.
The 20-year-old son of former Atomic Kitten singer and ex-Westlife star Brian McFadden was approached by producers to come on the show, which has lately been chastised by viewers for casting ‘nepo babies.’
While Kerry, 42, originally pushed Lilly to enter the villa, her daughter opted against it because it’s ‘just not her,’ with the Celebrity Big Brother star later calling it ‘fake.’
‘Love Island – Bore Island, it’s wrong, I can’t believe it’s still on,’ she screamed.
‘Our Lilly got asked to do it twice. I went “Do it!”, our Lilly is one of these girls, she doesn’t shave her armpits, she’s a stunning girl, she’ll sit there with a rollie looking a mess, I went “Just go on there and show kids [my daughter] Heidi’s age that it’s OK to be normal.”
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‘Our Lilly said no because she’s not one to stroll around in a bikini, it’s just not her.’
The former Dancing On Ice star, who also has Molly Marie, 21, with Brian, Heidi Elizabeth, 16, and Max, 15, with second husband Mark Croft, and Dylan-Jorge, eight, with third husband George Kay, has continued to criticise Love Island, expressing concern about its impact on her children.
She told the Mirror: ‘It’s all fake, I’ve not watched it, I can’t believe it’s still going – I think it’s shocking.
‘It’s fake and foggy, it gives young kids the wrong impression and wrong idea – it’s like these filters on Instagram, the ones that make you look drop-dead gorgeous, they should be banned.
‘They should be taken off, that’s affecting my kids, that’s affecting so many teenagers.’
While Lilly-Sue has rejected Love Island, the programme has featured a number of renowned parents as their children search for love throughout the years.
Dani Dyer, the daughter of soap icon Danny Dyer, participated on the popular show and won in 2018 with her then-partner Jack Fincham.
Tommy Fury revealed he was Tyson Fury’s brother when pursuing his fiancée Molly-Mae Hague the next year in 2019.
Molly Marsh joins the group this season as the daughter of a soap star, while Amber Wise is the daughter of ex-Chelsea player Dennis Wise.
Love Island airs tonight at 9pm on ITV2.
Source My Celebrity Life.