Love Island star cheekily slams Manchester United legend's appearance

02 June 2024 , 21:54
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Love Island's Jess White has cheekily hit out at a Manchester United legend

New Love Island star Jess White has revealed her surprise encounter with a Manchester United legend.

The retail manager is set to head into the Love Island villa for the latest series of the ITV2 dating show. Before going into the villa, Jess has shared an insight into her life at home in the UK. She works in an affluent suburb in Cheshire at a Marks & Spencer supermarket. Jess has revealed the football icon she once spotted browsing the aisles.

The 25-year-old shared: “I did think 'maybe this is where I'll meet my future husband' but I feel like work uniform doesn't really go hand in hand with meeting a footballer." She cheekily added: "But I had Wayne Rooney in the other day... it's not doing well for him, the old age. I was shocked."

She is hoping to find love on the ITV2 show and revealed to The Mirror that her mum took her shopping for seductive lingerie to boost her chances of finding love in the villa. Jess admitted: “My mum said I needed to get some sexy underwear as mine wasn’t great, so we went shopping. It was wild. Who does that with their mum?! She was saying, ‘That’s a showstopper, that’s the one. That’s a Hideaway outfit’.”

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Love Island star cheekily slams Manchester United legend's appearanceShe hit out at Wayne Rooney's appearance (Getty Images for Disney+)

Jess is looking for a strong man who won’t give her an easy life, saying her previous boyfriend was too much of a pushover. She shared how she had “put on quite a bit of weight” while in a relationship with her last boyfriend, and said she was “eating what I want” because she was happy.

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The TV star underwent a 1.5st weight loss transformation ahead of appearing on Love Island. “It got to a point where I thought, ‘no, I’m not actually happy.’ I was still confident in myself, I just thought ‘no, I’m not happy,’” she told The Mirror. “My friend had qualified as a (personal trainer) and she was like, ‘Why don’t you be my first client, and we’ll do it together. And then we started going to the gym, she started using me as her kind of portfolio, and honestly, I just realised how much I loved it.”

Jess added: “I think I lost about a stone and a half, so I was nowhere (near) overweight, but I just wasn’t comfortable in myself." She confessed going to the gym was her “me time”, and she’s now so happy with how exercise makes her feel she joked she’d become “obsessed”. “I also started running… I feel like any form of fitness I just enjoy it, I feel it’s good for your head, just to clear your head… so yeah, definitely into my fitness.”

She also spoke about her job and said after working there for eight years, the door has been left open for her to return to her role. “Literally, I can walk back into that job, so it’s a really nice position to be in,” she shared. “It wouldn’t be a problem if I only lasted a week and I was back in M&S stacking shelves.”

Mia O'Hare

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