Love Island’s Liam Llewellyn breaks silence on his decision to leave the villa

Love Island star Liam Llewellyn has broken his silence on why he chose to leave the villa after just six days on the reality show.

The twenty-three-year-old student, from Wales, was originally coupled up with Gemma Owen before she was put into a new couple with new boy Davide Sanclimenti.

Following the recoupling, Liam became the first contestant to quit the show, with him announcing his departure to fellow islanders six days into the series.

He revealed at the time: “I don’t really think I’ve been giving 100% Liam… I’m miles off that.”

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And now, as this year’s Love Island draws to a close, Liam has broken his silence on his decision, putting his early departure down to the show’s production.

Speaking to the MailOnline, Liam explained: “I thought I was going to have the summer that everyone dreams of but now I’m living with no regrets, I took a chance but I realised I can’t live on TV.

“I was expected to do things for a TV show and I couldn’t be myself. I didn’t want to do it. It is a TV show and it is produced. It’s not all natural.

“In my head I was not in the right position to take part in a TV show because that’s what you’re doing. You have to go on dates, do challenges, and you’re not in control of any of it.”

Liam went on to reveal that during his dates, producers would make him repeat certain sentences because they ‘didn’t quite come through’.

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He continued: “I had loads of meetings with the execs, the series editor, and professional physiologists but after a couple of days of feeling the way I did, I made the decision on my own behalf that it wasn’t right for me to carry on.”

In response, an ITV spokesperson said in a statement: “As anyone who watches the show regularly would know, Love Island is a combination of reality and produced elements that are reflective of what’s happening in the villa, and is a fair and accurate representation of villa life.

“We have always been completely transparent about this and the way the show is made. This is often acknowledged in the voice over by Iain Stirling.

“The opinions they have and the relationships formed are completely within the control of the Islanders themselves. As we have said since series one, Love Island is a combination of reality and produced elements.”