Love Island's Amber Gill opens up on her sexuality saying 'coming out was a weird experience'
Former Love Island winner Amber Gill has opened up about her sexuality, saying that coming out was “a bit of a weird experience.” The star revealed that despite winning the ITV show in 2019 with male partner Greg O’Shea, it was “painfully obvious” she was gay.
Chatting on Timotei’s brand new podcast A Gentle Start: The Showercast, she said: "Sometimes I do take the odd opportunity to look back on when I was on Love Island, and it's quite a strange experience.
I don't think I'm different as a person, but I think that the comparison between then and now is crazy. "I feel like I'm way more confident and comfortable within myself, and I definitely didn't realise when I was there, but it's kind of painfully obvious when I watch it back now that there was something going on, I just couldn't figure out what it was.” Amber, 27, came out in 2022, saying she’d “switched teams” on Twitter.
While she was roundly applauded for her bravery in talking so openly about her sexuality, she admitted then it was “accidental” and an “off the cuff comment.” She says now, looking back, it was a ‘weird experience’ for it all to happen so publicly. “I've embraced all of the opportunities and possibilities that have come my way,” she said on Showercast. “One of the biggest ones is probably my sexuality because that's something that I didn't really explore before, and then dealing with that in the public eye was a bit of a weird experience.
