Love Island’s Zara Holland: ‘I’m more of a role model now than ever’

Yes, Zara!

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by Georgina Terry |
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Sophie Gradon may be the *Love Island *queen of our hearts, especially after that empowering speech, but the person we've loved to watch the most is Zara Holland with her terrible luck in love.

Let us remember: she got together with Scott Thomas who dumped her in favour of Kady McDermott.

She then, sadly, chose Daniel Lukakis (who has since left her a very weird message) over Javi Shephard to stay in the villa, only to realise that she found pants model Dan physically repulsive.

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She had a one night fling with Alex Bowen who really preferred Olivia Buckland, and so wound up with Adam Maxted who doesn't seem to have much respect for women.

Added to her love woes, she was stripped of her Miss GB titlein a move straight from the Middle Ages, and then had to leave because of family illness.

Blimey.

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But we spoke to her and found that you just can't keep a good girl down.

"The petition [to re-instate Zara as Miss GB] has gone up to 19,000 people now.

"I’m getting support every day from the public, and there’s a lot of people that say 'you’re more of a real role model now more than ever, you’re very relatable too'".

Is right. And while the newly instated Miss GBsays that Zara would have been told by the pageant organisers to behave herself on the telly, she says that absolutely was not the case.

"The Miss GB organisation did not say to me 'Zara, you can’t have sex on TV'.

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"They wrote a permission letter to ITV saying 'we 100% support Zara' and they were really behind me when I was going into the villa. I had their a million per cent support."

Stick that in your pipes and smoke it, Miss GB organisers. We say.

But despite being distraught about being unfairly dismissed as Miss GB, Zara told us she had the best time in the villa, although she was beauty queen diplomatic when we questioned her about her relationship with Olivia.

"I think everyone will speak to each other at some point," she told us.

"I've no grudges with anyone, we’ll all bump into each other."

*Love Island continues tonight at 9pm on ITV2. *

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