Irish model Holly Carpenter has opened up about her disappointment when she wasn’t cast for reality TV show Love Island, but has since had a change of heart as she doesn’t think she “would have been strong enough for it”.
Revealing that she went through the audition process shortly after Maura Higgins was on the show, Holly shared: “It’s mad cause I look back and I was fully in ITV doing the screen test had gone through the interview process.
“I was so disappointed when I didn’t get the call but then I’m like I actually don’t think I could have handled it.”
Speaking to the Irish Sun at the hayu STELLAR InstaSTAR Awards, the former Miss Ireland continued, “A lot of them that come out talk about the mental health struggles they had and I just don’t think I would have been strong enough for it.
“And it’s one of those things that you just don’t know what way your life could have gone and I definitely think things happen for a reason.
“So even with anything when I’m really disappointed at the time I try and remind myself right grand but it would be good to see those shows a bit more inclusive.
“I don’t know if some of those shows are a bit done to death anyway.”