Meet brunette splendor Leah Holly – the Stokie lass who hit our screens last night on E4’s Shipwrecked.
Viewers of the highly brilliant truth display had been delivered to its newest arrival, a 25-year-old Stoke-on-Trent accomplice consultant who additionally works as a glamour version.
And after being selected out of thousands of hopefuls and keeping her look on the show a secret for five months, Leah has found out the once-in-a-lifetime revel in maybe one to consider.
Leah becomes flown to the Cook Islands – wherein the show is filmed – lower back in September and summed up the entire experience as ’emotional.’
She said: “I changed into so excited after I acquired the decision, I couldn’t entirely agree with it. From that moment, I just wanted to go away and get on that plane.
“I suppose I became picked to go on as I wanted to expose all and sundry that it’s OK to be yourself and to be confident without sporting make-up or having your hair achieved.
“I didn’t surely tell plenty of my friends or family, and I suppose a few nonetheless don’t recognize and will handiest see it while it is going live. It’s been difficult. However, I think it will likely be worth the wait.”
The display sees two teams – the Sharks and the Tigers – compete to entice novices like Leah to sign up for their island. The most prominent tribe at the give up of the series will win a £50,000 prize pot.
And alongside the manner, there are many dramas as the castaways fall in love – and out once more.
But for unmarried Leah, romance becomes no longer at the vanguard of her thoughts.
She said: “I was so excited to arrive onto the island, it changed into genuinely stunning, but I became so apprehensive. Meeting a large organization of human beings becomes so horrifying.
“I recall feeling so beaten being at the island and meeting all these beautiful humans. It becomes at that moment I realized what I had signed merely as much as.
“I wasn’t hoping to locate love; I was taking place to have a brilliant time and to have a laugh. I had such a lot of bonds on the island. I loved all and sundry on each team. They are all outstanding; I am so lucky to have had the possibility to satisfy all of them.
“I become very motherly, always making sure humans are OK and if all and sundry wanted to assist with whatever. I am certainly like that.
“The simplest component I changed into involved approximately earlier than I went become the food. I am a fussy eater; however, I managed the whole lot exceptionally.
“I leave out being there and being with each person. We all had the maximum fantastic time, and it went so rapidly. We all try and see each other as an awful lot as we can.
“I would 100 according to cent move returned. I would stay there if I should.”
