EXCLUSIVE: Love Island winner Amber Gill split from her footballer girlfriend in December and tells OK! why dating is 'difficult' now, while opening up on going through therapy
Five years after winning Love Island , Amber Gill is the happiest she’s ever been and has no regrets about the show.
Hot off the heels of a trip to Paris to watch Simone Biles clinch another medal at the Olympics, the 27-year-old Newcastle native is about to publish her second fiction novel, One Summer in Miami, and chats to us about embracing and representing queer joy, her biggest life lessons, and her love of therapy…It definitely got me places in the first year or two after the villa, but five years later I don’t put everything I have down to Love Island.
So I wanted to do a queer story, but I didn’t want to make it about coming out or anything super traumatic. I wanted it to be, like, queer joy, because that’s kind of what I believe in. There are a few more difficult themes – like one character has conservative parents – but it’s not “oh, I’m queer and I went through such a traumatic time”, it’s about joy.Yes! For me, on top of not reading about any people of colour in stories, I didn’t read anything about queer people, especially women.
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