New Love Island star George Fensom has apologised for historic tweets containing homophobic slurs that have resurfaced ahead of his stint on the ITV2 dating show.
The 24-year-old - a business development executive from Bedford - will be among the new crop of contestants entering the famous villa this weekend but he has courted controversy before even making his screen debut.
In now-deleted tweets, Fensom is seen telling another user "shut up you f****t" while in another he declares: "Same gay tweets day in day out."
"I honestly just feel absolutely sick about those tweets," he told The Sun. "They are not who I am today, they couldn't be any further from the man I am today and you quite frankly, if I could turn back time I wouldn't even have put those.
"To be honest with you, it's me being really naive at that age. I made the account back in 2011, so it's just stupidity on my behalf and doesn't reflect on who I am today at all."
Love Island begins Monday at 9pm on ITV2 and ITVX.
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