Former Love Island star Priya Gopaldas has slammed the show’s lack of diversity and 'token' South Asian representation. 'No, dropping someone in a week before the final is tokenism, it doesn’t count.'
Priya’s comments echo those made by Sharron Gaffka last year, who said she believedThe 25-year-old reality star participated in the hit dating show in 2021, however, she has claimed she and other islanders includingpodcast, she said: ‘I feel like Asian women were taken as a token or a tick box in this series.‘I felt like I was scapegoated for a tick box 95 percent of the time I was in the villa.’
She continued saying: ‘It was so nice to have me and another Asian contestant, Shannon, there for the first couple of days but she was booted off within 24 hours and then AJ, I don’t know how long AJ was in there for but Priya wasn’t in there for very long either.’
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