Crowds followed me around the shops when I won the show – I’d love that now I’m not famous! says Love Island winner
LOVE Island winner Cara de la Hoyde has described the fan mania when she left the Majorca villa and her life six years on.
The show favourite won series two of Love Island with Nathan Massey in 2016, and said they were stunned when they found out they were super famous.
The show rebooted just one year earlier, after ten years off screen.
But Cara, 33, left the villa with a million social media followers and was swamped with fans when they landed in the UK atfer being on TV every day for six weeks.
The honest star told fellow Love Island alum Shaughna Phillips: "Series 2 was very different.
"None of us thought we would be working eight years after.
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"We were all sitting around the fire pit, thinking we’ll do a couple of PAs, make some money for our savings, and then we’ll all be back to work.
"And then you get your phone back and it’s mental, you turn your phone on and it's like it’s going to break down. It gets so hot, there’s so much going on."
She continued: "When we flew back, they held the finalists in a hotel so you stayed there to do press and this and the other.
"When we landed they were like, 'you and Nathan are going on (TV show) Lorraine the next day.
"So we were like, we need to go and buys some clothes! We’ve got no clothes!"
Cara explained Nathan's dad joined them for a shopping spree in London and arrived before them to hoards of people waiting to see the winning couple.
She said: "We thought, let's go to Reiss. His dad was like, listen, it’s mental. It is f*****g mental, do not go.
"We got there and out of this taxi and it was mad, I’ve never seen nothing like it.
"They had to stop people coming into Reiss! I was like, this ain’t normal, what is this?"
And Cara joked: "Now, I would love that. I would love that now.
She joked: "Love Island theme tune as your ring tone!"
Cara and Nathan had had a brief seven month split in 2017.
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They reunited a few weeks before Cara was due to give birth.
The couple's first child Freddie-George was born in Decemeber 2017 followed by daughter Delilah in 2020.