How Love Island's Ekin-Su Became Reality TV's Best Bombshell of All Time

18.08.2022 - 18:53 / glamour.com

contestant as Maura Higgins and Megan Barton-Hansen. All bombshells in their own right, they’re the kind of girls that I’d most probably keep at arm’s length upon first meeting IRL—through intimidation and little else, to be honest—but who each grew on me in the same way my desire for 13 new does every summer. Slowly, surely, and with conviction.Yet this week, as the nation basks in the wonderful news of Ekin-Su and fellow Love Island season eight winner Davide Sanclimenti’s upcoming series—they’re going to be cooking and eating their way around Turkey and Italy—it’s the Turkish Delight of Love Island UK whom I’m declaring the most iconic bombshell of them all.

Period.Not all Love Island bombshells are created equal, after all, and there's something a little different about Ekin in comparison to other popular Islanders like Higgins and Barton-Hansen. They’re all beautiful, sure. And each have an unapologetic and unrelenting commitment to causing complete and utter chaos.

But what sets Ekin-Su apart is exactly what made Charlie (remember him?) call her a “weirdo” when she impersonated Voldemort in an early-July Unseen Bits episode. She’s funny, she’s intelligent, and she paves the way for women to act in the same way as their male peers. Yep: Ekin-Su regularly and admirably exhibited the brazen behavior that’s so often praised in men on shows like these—and yet wrongly proclaimed as women behaving badly. She shouted. She crawled on her hands and knees to orchestrate a display of affection with fleeting love interest Jay Younger.