Sophie Gradon basically owned 2016. A bit of it, anyway.
She was paired off with Tom Powell on Love Island (and was wasted on him IOO) but still could have won after her [epic speech about women and sex and Zara Holland being stripped of her Miss Great Britain crown](planetradio.co.uk/heat/entertainment/tv-movies/love-island-sophie-gradon-miss-newcastle-great-britain/
).
Then Tom left and she had a short-lived fling with Katie Salmon and they 100% could have won too until Sophie got cold feet and walked off the show.
It was the biggest shame of the year. Apart from, y’know, Brexit and Trump and the big stuff.
But now she has a new Love Island bae, woo! And he’s (drumroll) Ashley Ienco.
You may not recognise him immediately but he was on the show, honestly. He was one of four men the women had to choose between for a place in the villa. They went for Adam Jukes who did precisely diddly squat of interest.
Still, live and learn eh, ladies?
Sophie and Ashley have been looking totally lurved up all over Instagram, posting beautiful, vomit-inducing posts such as this:
And this:
And this:
Rather sweetly, it seems that Ashley has had his eye on Sophie for a long time.
Nawwww.
It’s good to have some nice Love Island news after Olivia Buckland and Alex Bowen were really pretty rude about Malin Andersson.
And Jon Clark’s rage about his ‘girlfriend’ dumping him by appearing on the show without telling him.
Love Island starts on June 5. It’s going to dominate your summer. Might as well face it now.