LOVE Island star Ruchee Gurung will not be having sex in the villa because she doesn’t want to upset her mum or the Nepalese community.
The 24-year-old beautician, who hails from Nepal, explained her family have been ‘open-minded’ about her decision to do the show but she’s aware that more ‘conservative’ Nepalese people might struggle with her doing it.
Asked how her family reacted to her entering the famous villa, Ruchee explained: “My mum didn’t really quite understand it at first because she had not watched it.
“But I came home one day and she was like ‘oh I watched a few videos on YouTube’ and I was like ‘right’, she was like ‘there is a lot of tongue kissing’ and she was like ‘is that what you are going to be doing?’.
“I said I think I am going to have to, if I like someone I will do it, if there are challenges I think I will have to. She was like ‘just do what you need to do but don’t have sex on TV’. I was like ‘no, no, no that is not even an option’.”
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She continued: “My family has been supportive. I think from an Asian background, they can be quite narrow minded or closed off to things like this. But my family is more open minded. We don’t live in very Nepalese community, we live in Surrey.”
However, Ruchee thinks some older Nepalese people might not be quite so supportive.
“They can be quite conservative and some families can be quite judgemental but I feel like once they see me on the show, they will not even think about that,” she said.
“Also when I go back home nowadays and I hang out with my friends in Nepal, they are so open minded. I think the younger generation will be supportive, whereas the older generation might feel some kind of way about it.”
As well as going into the experience to find love, Ruchee is happy to bring more diversity to the table.
She told us: “I am so excited and proud to represent the Asian community, especially being from Nepal. It’s such a small country, I feel like not a lot of people know where Nepal is.
“I feel like once they see me on there and how I am, they will be proud."
