Love Island star Jess Hayes has opened up exclusively to Daily Star about her unexpected arrival in the villa.
During a Facebook Live interview, Jess admitted that she was part of the show’s “test run week” but was abruptly pulled from the lineup.
She explained that before she was due to go on the show, she was “in talks” with Ex on the Beach but after a phone call from Love Island producers, she decided to go for it.
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However, Jess was later told that she was unsuccessful but was asked to take part in the show’s “test run week”.
The week allowed producers to prepare for the real thing by having guinea pig contestants roam the villa corridors and set up residence for 7 days while they test the cameras, angles and general housekeeping.
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ITV bosses loved Jess so much that they removed her from the villa and told her she was to be part of the real series – which she later went on to win.
They told her: “I went into the little cabins, I came out and I was like: ‘Why did you take me out? I was enjoying myself,’ then the executive producers sat me down and said: ‘We’re taking you out because we love you and we want you on the real thing’.”
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The bosses called Jess a “big character” and an excited Jess went to call her mum, who had to “send her some stuff out” as the star had only packed for a week.
Upon realising that she didn’t have enough clothes, the former islander had to ask her co-stars to help her out.
“The worst thing was that I had packed for a week. I didn’t have enough stuff, and [the producers] were like: ‘Well, tough’. My mum sent some stuff out to me.”
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She continued: “I hadn’t prepared myself to be there for six weeks. It was so embarrassing because the girls thought I was a bit, like: ‘Is she alright?’ I had no bl**** bikinis, I was wearing all of Hannah’s [Elizabeth] and she has these massive boobs, they didn’t fit me!”
“I think everyone started to get annoyed with me, a bit like: ‘What’s wrong with her? Why is she borrowing everyone’s clothes? I couldn’t tell anybody that I’d done the test run and that I’d only packed for a week, like: ‘Guys, I need to borrow your s***!’”
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