EXCLUSIVE: Boxer and former Love Island star Wil Anderson has spoken exclusively to Daily Star about his experience preparing for the ITV dating show back in 2024
Wil Anderson was “on eggshells” as he prepared to enter the ITV villa.
The boxer appeared on the show back in 2024, but before he ever appeared on our screens the former contestant was kept in quarantine away from his co-stars, friends and family.
Speaking exclusively to Daily Star, Wil said: “[Boxing] is definitely physically harder but the build up to Love Island was crazy.”
“You don’t actually know whether you’re going in, they’ll say you’re going in but then your dates get pushed back, something will happen.”
Wil admitted he was nervous while waiting for his turn to enter the villa: “I was on eggshells for ages beforehand – for fights I know what to do, I know what to expect, whereas for Love Island I was in the dark.”
The former contestant then admitted that he found both experiences very difficult, but in completely different ways.
“[Boxing fights are] lot to prepare for physically, but Love Island was [a lot] mentally,” he added.
“I did two weeks in a hotel in Mallorca before I went in. They kept pushing it back and it ended up being fourteen days, it was crazy. They came to see me and sat me down.”
“They said: ‘We’re not going to send you home,’ they’d already sent three people home. Crazy. It’s mad to think there are people that were sat waiting to go and just never went.”
The reality TV star eventually entered the villa and fell head over heels for Uma Jammeh.
The pair hit it off straight away and when Uma was stolen from Wil by Reuben, she immediately burst into tears and shouted: “I’m gonna leave!”
Wil and Uma are still together and have recently moved into their new apartment. He told us: “Things are amazing, couldn’t be better. Quite magical to be honest!”
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