Kerry Katona slams Love Island but encourages daughter to accept show offers

Kerry Katona’s daughter Lilly-Sue McFadden has been approached by Love Island bosses but has turned them down.

Mum Kerry, 42, said Lilly-Sue, 20 – who she shares with ex-husband and Westlife singer Brian McFadden, 43 – has been asked on more than one occasion to appear in the popular ITV2 show.

Despite the star encouraging her to appear on what she deems to be a “fake” programme, she insisted her offspring didn’t feel it was the right gig for her.

The show has catapulted contestants to fame, including Molly-Mae Hague, 24, Tommy Fury, 24 and Olivia Attwood, 32.

Speaking to the Mirror, the former Atomic Kitten singer said: “Love Island – Bore Island, it’s wrong, I can’t believe it’s still going.

“Our Lilly got asked to do it twice.”

Kerry felt that if her daughter joined the line-up she would contribute to showing a sense of “normality”.

Adding: “I went ‘Do it!’, our Lilly is one of these girls, she doesn’t shave her armpits, she’s a stunning girl, she’ll sit there with a rollie looking a mess, I went, ‘Just go on there and show kids our Heidi’s age that it’s OK to be normal’.”

Lilly stuck to her guns and was adamant that the show was not right for her.

Kerry continued: “Lilly said no because she’s not one to stroll around in a bikini, it’s just not her.”

The hitmaker went on to brand Love Island “fake” and “shocking”, while revealing she has not watched it and couldn’t “believe it is still going”.

She claimed: “It gives young kids the wrong impression and wrong idea – it’s like these filters on Instagram, the ones that make you look drop-dead gorgeous, they should be banned.”

The TV personality said that the use of A.I filters are affecting her kids and many others, calling for them to also be “taken off”.

This week, Kerry is set to launch the paperback copy of her memoir, Whole Again: Love, Life And Me, which documents her battles as a young girl to her turbulent past and finding herself back in the showbiz circle.