Love Island 'signs first ever deaf contestant' as model Natasha Ghouri 'set to step into villa'

Tasha Ghouri is currently soaking up the sun in the Love Island villa, but back in the UK she has a lavish home in London. The model and dancer, 23, has already caused a stir in the villa, with both Andrew Le Page and Luca Bish fighting for her affections in recent episodes.

Love Island finally returned to screens on Monday night (June 6) for another summer of love but it was host Laura Whitmore who was heaping the praise. The presenter made her first appearance of the 2022 series during the launch show as she headed to the new villa for the first coupling up.

Love Island’s Tasha Ghouri has been praised by fans for raising deaf awareness in the villa. In Monday night’s premiere episode of season 8, the 23 year old dancer and model made her debut on the ITV show as its first ever deaf contestant. On their first night in the villa, Tasha rounded up the rest of her fellow islanders by the fire pit to announce her deafness.

We're ready to move mad over the return of Love Island on 6 June, especially now that the line-up for this year's summer of fun in the sun has been announced. With eight weeks of drama, iconic chats by the fire pit and jaw-dropping tasks ahead of us, narrator Iain Stirling has promised the new series to "be the sexiest yet". Love Island is never short of headline-making antics, and with seven seasons of romantic history behind us, there are plenty of stories to tell.

Love Island has finally released a snippet of the first episode of the new season, as fans can get even more excited about the impending launch show on Monday, 6 June.The two-minute clip shows all of the islanders in their natural habit and a taste at their personalities as each soon-to-be contestant gets ready for a summer of love. Amongst the hair-twirling, dancing and cheeky flirting, all the islanders also revealed their occupations - all as they're about to give them up for three months.The video begins with paramedic Paige Thorne biting into a bap as she sees a billboard sign teasing the show of the summer. "The OG dating show is back!" the poster reveals, drawing her in to the show.

Love Island’s Tasha Ghouri has revealed her biggest turn-off ahead of entering the famous villa in Mallorca - messy men.The show’s first-ever deaf contestant has confessed to being a bit of a control freak and desires someone who shares her standards of cleanliness. Speaking to OK!, the 23-year-old says: “Things like chewing with your mouth open – I don’t want to see your food when I’m having my dinner! I’m a bit OCD, so I don’t like really messy people either. I want someone who’s organised and clean.” However, while the model and dancer from Thirsk, North Yorkshire, has OCD tendencies, she has teased that she has a wild side, which she attributes to her star sign.

That's right, your favourite slice of reality TV is back for a summer of single men revealing themselves... wait, wrong show. Then again, there's little left to the imagination when it comes to the bikini-clad, ab-tastic singletons in the Love Island villa, and we're ready and waiting in the wings to lap up every sexy second.

Love Island fans don’t have long to go until the next series of the hit dating show is back to TV screens. With the countdown well and truly on, the lineup for this year’s show has been released and next up is Tasha Ghouri.The blonde beauty is a first for Love Island making her the show’s first ever deaf contestant.Tasha, 23, is a dancer and model and hails from Thirsk in Yorkshire. She said her past relationships have been disasters and prompted her to apply for Love Island.

Love Island is all about gorgeous, gorgeous people trying to find love in the villa of dreams, right?Over the years, we've fallen in love with many Islanders (Chris Hughes, Ovie Soko, Tommy Fury), but the latest confirmed contestant may just trump them all.Yep, 2022 is the year we finally get to see a true ITALIAN GOD enter the villa. Say hello to Davide Sanclimenti who has already made it his mission for the whole nation to fall in love with him in a couple of months.Honestly, there must be something wrong with this man because he looks like he was carved by ANGELS.Davide will join the original Love Island 2022 line-up and will join Welsh paramedic Paige Thorne, model and dancer Tasha Ghouri and microbiologist Dami Hope.He is one of the oldest Islanders this year at 27 years old.You'll be shocked to know that he isn't a model, he's a business owner.He's from Rome, Italy and boy does he know it, "I’m going to be the Italian stallion in the Villa! "With my Italian charm, I can also be a very romantic guy.

Love Island, we're often teased about potential contestants that could be part of the starting line-up. Sure, sometimes we never see them again, but sometimes certain contestants get leaked waaaaay before the series starts.Turns out some of the rumoured this year were in fact true, as dancer and model Tasha Ghouri has now been confirmed as one of the contestants in the Love Island 2022 OG line-up.Over the weekend, Natasha hit the headlines as she was rumoured to be joining the show, making her the first ever deaf contestant to take part.Recently, Natasha, who was born deaf, modelled for ASOS showing off her cochlear implant, “That’s me! Also just for confusion - this is a cochlear implant which is more advanced than hearing aids.”She said that she was proud to prove that “no matter what disability you’ve got, you can do it”.She will join Welsh paramedic Paige Thorne, microbiologist Dami Hope, waitress Indiyah Polack and student Liam Llewellyn.She is 23 years old.Tasha is from Thirsk, a town in Yorkshire.She's a model and dancer and has modelled for ASOS.