Molly-Mae Hague says no one goes on Love Island to find love as she admits she only took part to ''enhance her career''.
The 22-year-old multi-millionaire - making her the show's highest ever earning contestant - has made her mark after a string of lucrative deals before becoming proud Creative Director of fashion retailer PrettyLittleThing.
The Influencer and model, who of course met boyfriend Tommy Fury on the show, explained her success Love Island has come from hard work and she would have succeeded without the show it simply 'elevated her career.'
She explained: “It gave me a platform, yeah it elevated me but the things I’ve done now are not because of Love Island, they’re because of me and what I decided to do and my work ethic.”
But despite being thrust into near overnight fame on the popular ITV 2 dating show, she fails to credit her appearance in the same way other former contestants have done.
Speaking on The Diary of a CEO podcast with Steven Bartlett, she explained: “It is tricky for me to say the right thing without upsetting people but, put it this way, I didn’t go on that show to find love.”
Molly-Mae added:. “No one does! People go on it for the experience, people go on it for a laugh. And I think, because I went on there with a completely probably incorrect mindset, that’s why I did come out with a boyfriend. You know when you’re not expecting something it happens?”
Molly appeared on the fifth series of the ITV2 dating series in 2019 and finished as runner up alongside boyfriend Tommy Fury.
Despite her glossy image, away from the cameras she's had a tricky year after a harrowing £800k burglary at her Manchester apartment which she shares with Tommy.
She described her "safe haven" being snatched away as the "hardest thing to deal with" rather than financial loss.
Opening up on the podcast Molly-Mae confessed: "The burglary has been the hardest thing because that was snatched away from us. It wasn't the materialistic things that were taken, it was the fact that I knew the minute we found out that we had to leave that place."
She now has 24/7 close protection security to make her feel safer after also facing backlash from trolls on social media.
