'Love Island, where is the South Asian representation?'
appearance fee to NHS Charities Together, spent a week on the show in 2021, being dropped in on Day 42 as a bombshell.enabling fans to choose which of them goes into the villa first., as she called for better Asian representation and improved body diversity among contestants shortly after the summer 2022 cast for the show was announced."Diversity comes in lots of different boxes, it's not just ethnicity," she said in reference to the 2022 casting announcement.
"While I do think it's great that you know, close to 50% of the cast will be diverse or from a different background, I still think we're not seeing any Asians in the original line-up."And again, there is a little bit of more diversity than other previous series in terms of body size, but again, I'd still think that the producers could have done a little bit more in terms of body diversity," she continued.
"We stereotypically see men with six packs, women being very, very petite. There are still mid-size and plus-size people out there who are looking for love and would make great contestants on the show so I feel like they're still being overlooked."starts on Monday, January 16 with new host Maya Jama. It airs on ITV2, and is available via catch up on ITVX and
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