Love Island’s Sophie Piper and This Morning sister Rochelle Humes met long lost sibling after 23 years apart
24.01.2024 - 13:39
/ ok.co.uk
Love Island star Sophie Piper and her famous sister Rochelle Humes met their long-lost sister last year after 23 years apart. Sophie, a 25 year old is set to return to the South African villa for the All Stars spin-off series.
The reality star will be back on our screens on Wednesday, January 24 four years after her first appearance on the show. She grew up with Rochelle, raised by their mum and famous footballer uncle Paul Ince after their parents split.
They had another sister, Lilli, from their dad's side, who Rochelle met once when she was five. In an unexpected turn of events, it was Rochelle's This Morning co-star Kem Cetinay, the winner of Love Island 2017, who brought the sisters back together. Former The Saturdays singer Rochelle revealed the news — and Kem’s link to her family — on Giovanna Fletcher’s Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast back in 2019.
She told the mum-of-three: “I grew up with my mum and sister, all my siblings are half siblings. My dad was never around. “I’ve never told anyone this before.
Two years ago, I was at our management's Christmas party and Love Island's Kem was there.
“He was chatting away and said, 'I got to talk to you... as soon as I became a celeb, I promised my friend Lili that I would talk to you as she's your sister on your dad's side.'" Rochelle added: “I knew of her and met up with her when I was five, but it was so complicated as they were a lot younger and my dad wasn't involved. “On a drunken night out, Kem asked me if he could give her my number.
She WhatsApped me and I didn't reply till the morning. “We planned to go out for dinner with my other sister and brother and I made Marvin come with me because I was so scared. “We are literally the same people, Marvin was like, ‘OMG,
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