CHLOE BURROWS on Life after Love Island | GREAT MOMENTS

It’s Love Island FINAL day! As another long, hot summer in the villa comes to an end, it feels like the perfect time to look back at my conversation with Love Island royalty, Chloe Burrows. Chloe is one of the funniest people I’ve ever met. Since leaving the villa, she’s built an incredible career as a podcaster, TV presenter, and all-round good vibes. In this Great Moment, Chloe reveals what it was really like inside the villa and how it felt to return to the real world after becoming famous overnight. Listen to the full episode HERE https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ZUw6WvnIXyqgr3J9kElf3?si=KzyGxMyfTga546uRFUEpCA! If you enjoyed the show, you can also follow us: Instagram-@greatcompanypodcast https://www.instagram.com/greatcompanypodcast/# TikTok -@greatcompanypodcast https://open.acast.com/networks/611e511b4ec6dc00134bced2/shows/65d737dfdc02e00016c413b2/episodes/www.tiktok.com/@greatcompanypodcast And if you've got thoughts, questions and comments, you can email us at: [email protected] THE CREDITS Producer: Helen Burke Assistant Producer: Issy Weeks-Hankins Video: Josh Bennett Social Media: Laura Coughlan Exec Producer: Ewan Newbigging-Lister & Jemima Rathbone Great Company is an original podcast from JamPot Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• 2:44Jamie Laing?

  Hello, everyone. I'm Jamie Laing and this is Great Moments.

• 2:51Jamie Laing?

  Hey, everyone. I hope you're well and welcome back to Great Moments. Now, if you're new here, this is the place where I'm going to bring you a standout moment from one of my favorite great company conversations. These are the moments that have stayed with me long after the recording and I hope you can take something away from them. Now, if today's conversation leaves you wanting more, you can find the link to the full episode in the show notes. So sit back, settle in, and here it is.

• 3:18Jamie Laing?

  Okay, so you go on Love Island?

• 3:19Speaker 05

  I did.

• 3:21Jamie Laing?

  Okay, I want, I need every detail of how, like, how does that happen? What, what happens? Do they send you a message? Do you do an interview? What goes down when that happens?

• 3:33Speaker 05

  Okay, so I had a friend of a friend who was an exec on a few shows and they were trying to get me to go on Celebs Go Ding as a day tea for Wayne Lineker and Tom Zanetti. But I had, yeah.

• 3:49Jamie Laing?

  That's a big convo. That's a big.

• 3:52Speaker 05

  And I almost didn't. Joking. I didn't.

• 3:55Jamie Laing?

  A little bit, yeah, a little bit.

• 3:57Speaker 05

  I was a bit, yeah, a bit, but no. So they, so she was trying to get me and I had this call, but I had a job like in finance. So I, after cold calling, got moved to, because I got my degree in marketing. I was like head of the digital marketing bit for this, in fact, like finance company. I thought, this is not worth the risk. Because I would be so sacked. Like, there's no way you can go to like Financial Services after being on TV snogging Wayne Lineker. That doesn't happen. So I thought, no, this isn't worth the risk. And then they called again for James Lockey and I thought, no, don't want to do that either. Like, no, no shame to him. But I thought, if I'm getting airtime, he's got to get me a new job. You know what I mean? I'm getting so sacked. So I thought, no, not that one. And then they called me.

• 4:39Jamie Laing?

  Quite entrepreneurial of you to think, like, if this is a stepping stone, it has to offer me something. The risk versus reward has to be good.

• 4:44Speaker 05

  Well, actually, if you want the truth, I was interviewing for other jobs, but I could not get a job. And I thought, well, if I'm sacked, I'm actually fucked. Because I haven't got a job and I've got one. Imagine if I'm unemployed and not being able to interview, like, I can't.

• 4:56Jamie Laing?

  You can't do that. Okay.

• 4:58Speaker 05

  Um, so then there was this other show. It went on ITV2. I can't remember what it's called, but it was basically one single girl and 12 boys and six of them had taken, six of them are single. And she had to like date them all. And at the end, she would pick one. And if he was single, they'd split the money. But if he was taken, him and his girlfriend would take the money anyways. That was the premise of the show. So thinking about it, I thought, should I do it? Should I do it? Should I do it? And I've got, so that was like a few Zoom calls, because I think it was COVID. And then at the end, I was just, I just don't know if I should. And then the girl, oh, I forgot her name, Georgia.

• 5:28Jamie Laing?

  Yeah.

• 5:29Speaker 05

  She was like, okay, I actually know exactly what show you should be on. And I was like, she was like, right, I'm going to pass your number along, whatever. And then the next day, I was working from home and I just got a call and it was like, is that Chloe? I was like, yeah. They were like, do you want to go for a long hot summer? I was like, fucking yes. It's Love Island. Yeah, I was like, yeah, I do. What do you want? Um, so they'd obviously had my details and producers. And then I think I jumped on a Zoom the next day. And they just asked me a bit about myself, dating history. And I was just saying whatever I thought would get me on that show. And then they called me down to London. They said, yeah, you're going to be the first bombshell. And that was kind of signed to delivered in a month. And I knew when I was flying out. Because I said some horrific stuff, probably.

• 6:07Jamie Laing?

  But I think you're, you're entrepreneurial. Like, yeah, 100%. Because I can see it in the way that you sort of view things, which is a really good way. You're not sort of part of the system. You're always looking at ways that how can something offer me? And if I need to get it, how am I going to find, if I want to get something, I'm going to find a way of getting it.

• 6:26Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 6:26Jamie Laing?

  Right? That's always the, always the really good way of doing things, I always think. What horrific stuff did you say in the interview?

• 6:34Speaker 05

  Oh, I'm sure you might have seen a clip a few years, TikTok or social media. I basically said that I'm partial to a married man and they loved it. The story of that, I have addressed it a few times. Basically, when I worked in finance, I met this man, we fell in love. Obviously, he was my new hyperfixation. And then I found out he had a wife and kids and I dumped him. But obviously, I oversold it. Because the producer's like, oh, you do like married men? And I was like, I fucking love married men. Because I was getting on that show regardless, you know? And they asked you questions like, what if a girl tried to move to a man? I'd be like, well, it's not friend I love. Like, no girl can ever take a man from me. I didn't mean it, but I knew what they wanted me to say. Like, I'm not dumb. So I just gave them what they wanted.

• 7:16Jamie Laing?

  So there's a few things. Firstly, how, not everyone knows that.

• 7:19Speaker 05

  Oh, come on. It's Love Island. If someone tells you a man, you're not going to like, have a nice chat. Fight for him.

• 7:25Jamie Laing?

  No, but, but, but I think no one, that's, that's confidence. Like, whether you're meaning to be confident or it's, it's just like, no, if I'm being so honest here, like, if someone, if someone got me an interview and said that, I would be a bit like, oh, I don't know. I'd probably chat about it and like, see if like, we could like work out some sort of deal. Like, that's what I would have done. Like, having not had the TV experience, like, having had the TV experience now.

• 7:51Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 7:51Jamie Laing?

  I know what they want, but, but being naive to the situation, which you were, how do you, knowing what they want, that's unique, man. I know, it is 100% unique.

• 8:01Speaker 05

  Yeah, perhaps. But then I spoke to Millie. Millie said the same thing. I think everyone who goes on there is a bit ballsky. Well, on our season, it was like quite, all of us, like, you can't talk to my man, you know?

• 8:12Jamie Laing?

  When you go in as the bombshell, how nerve wracking is it?

• 8:17Speaker 05

  It was an out of body experience. I don't know how I did that. They kind of said, you pull up. And they always say to you as well, like, the pressure's on. They say, you are not in that villa until you are in that villa. Like, even if you're waiting outside, they might turn around and say, actually, no. You know, and you don't want to do anything wrong. Because I thought, I'm going in that fucking villa. They put me in a port cabin.

• 8:40Jamie Laing?

  In a porter cabin?

• 8:41Speaker 05

  They have loads. Well, they did. I don't know if it's changed, but they had like port cabins outside the villa. I don't know what for. They were like all the way up the road. And I was held in there and I had my chaperone and we, they don't really, they didn't really tell me what was going on. I knew I was going to be a bombshell, but it was day one. So they were all doing the coupling. So I must have got there like 3 PM. And I was just sat, oh, I got my hair and makeup done. And I thought, yes, please. I shouldn't have done that. I looked unwell. But I'm got my hair and makeup done and then they kind of do the outfit options. And then they came round and said, okay, right, so what you're gonna do is you're gonna send a voice note saying you're outside the villa and give the boys an option to come and meet you. I thought, what? You've set me up here. Just let me walk in and say hello and pull some chat.

• 9:25Speaker 05

  So I was like, okay, obviously I didn't say anything. I was like, great, can't wait. That's exactly what I wanted to do today. And then they came round and were making me do this voice note and I was so nervous. Now I had to be like, hey, boys. I'm outside. This voice came out of me. It was inside. She's like, hey, boys, Chloe here. I don't know. I've never been that way since. I don't know. Yeah. Hey, hey, boys, Chloe here. I'm outside the villa.

• 9:53Speaker 05

  And I kept doing it. And they're like, can you make it sexier? I was like, nice. So I did that. And then they were, they just led me up. They didn't tell me who was coming, how many. Just kind of throw you in.

• 10:04Jamie Laing?

  What is the experience like being in there? Like for someone who, someone who knows it, but also someone who doesn't? It's, it's pretty real. Like, it's obviously structured in a way. Like, I know TV, there's producers and things like this, but it's pretty organic, pretty real. It's a big brother house, but sexy, fun and with a swimming pool.

• 10:20Speaker 05

  Yeah, for sure.

• 10:21Jamie Laing?

  Yeah.

• 10:21Speaker 05

  Um, I think it was just surreal. It's much smaller in real life. I remember walking and thinking, oh, my gosh. But I think, I don't really remember like how I felt during the first week, but it's intense and it's like, go, go, go. And then I think I kind of clocked on earlier because the producers will pull you in the morning and at night. And they kind of suss where your head's at for the day and what you wanna do. And then perhaps they'll say, oh, why don't you go and have this chat? It's not, you need to say this. Do you know what I mean? And they'll kind of nudge you along, but it, it was very go, go, go. I remember, cause I didn't really, like, I got along with the girls, but we weren't like besties.

• 11:01Speaker 05

  Cause obviously I was the first bombshell. They'd already like made their group on the first day. So they did that. And then, um, I didn't really have, I was probably closest to like Kaz and Lib when I first went in there. But then there was a whole situation with Toby, kind of put the cat among pigeons. And then Millie and Lucinda came in and that kind of changed my whole experience. Cause we just got along like from the second we met. And then it was just became a lot more like fun and less serious. Cause when you're in there, like, you're fighting for your life.

• 11:29Jamie Laing?

  You are, right? That's exactly what it is.

• 11:31Speaker 05

  Yeah. And it's intense and you, there is a pressure, you know, to go and speak to that boy. I've met these boys for two days. I ain't got a fucking clue who they are. Oh, and now I'm sharing a bed. Like, it's very, you just, you've got to take it in your stride and just go, go, go. Yeah.

• 11:45Jamie Laing?

  And you've also, you, you also think in your head, you're like, I've made the decision to do this.

• 11:48Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 11:49Jamie Laing?

  And so now I'm in this situation where I'm now gonna be on Love Island.

• 11:52Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 11:53Jamie Laing?

  That means that my life back home is gonna change in lots of different ways, especially from going into like getting a job and things like that, because people rightly or wrongly are probably gonna view you in a, in a different light.

• 12:04Speaker 05

  Ah, yeah, for sure.

• 12:05Jamie Laing?

  And so then you're thinking, well, I have to make this work.

• 12:08Speaker 05

  Yeah. And I thought, you, I've got to be in here more than four weeks. Like, I actually knew in my head to make it worth it. I haven't got a job when I go home. Like, I've actually got to be in here. So.

• 12:18Jamie Laing?

  Wow, that's quite like a d- d- defining like thing to have, like.

• 12:22Speaker 05

  Hmm.

• 12:23Jamie Laing?

  Yeah, I, I, cause I remember when I did Made in Chelsea, I like, I remember that's what my thought process was. It was like, okay, I've decided to go down this show of doing a reality show.

• 12:31Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 12:32Jamie Laing?

  That means this life of going down wealth management or being a broker.

• 12:35Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 12:36Jamie Laing?

  Or whatever I was wanting, that's now gone.

• 12:38Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 12:38Jamie Laing?

  So I've got to make this work.

• 12:39Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 12:40Jamie Laing?

  And that, that was very anxiety. I had a lot of anxiety because of that. Cause I was like, I now have no plan B. And especially at that age, when it's all a lot in the air, it's quite a lot.

• 12:48Speaker 05

  And you're right, like the birth of like people being famous of like.

• 12:51Jamie Laing?

  On social, on reality TV.

• 12:53Speaker 05

  Media. Like, that's even more pressure. I feel like for people from my C's numbers, Love Island been on a minute. There was kind of a blueprint.

• 12:59Jamie Laing?

  Yeah.

• 13:01Speaker 05

  You don't understand the public's perception and it's not a twenty-four seven live feed, unfortunately, and editing, et cetera. So some people do get dealt a bad hand, but you did sign up to do it in a way.

• 13:14Jamie Laing?

  Hmm.

• 13:15Speaker 05

  I don't know.

• 13:16Jamie Laing?

  No, I know. But did, did you, did you, when you came out, did you get, did you feel anxiety or worry or stress or anything like that?

• 13:24Speaker 05

  I think the first three months were just an absolute blur. It was just an absolute whirlwind, you know? I was all of a sudden going to Dubai and like LA and all this. But I'd never been. I was working for like JD. It was like, my life was a movie.

• 13:37Jamie Laing?

  Hmm.

• 13:37Speaker 05

  You're almost like, you get on this treadmill, I think, and you're just waking up and going through the motions. You don't actually sit back and take it all in. And then I think anxiety definitely crept, but maybe it was after my ADHD diagnosis. I started to become more aware of like me and myself. And then anxiety just creeps in. And then you have more time. You, the first six months are just a big blur. Like, if you kind of make it to the final, you don't take a minute. And then after that, I kind of had more time. And then you start to look at the comments and you're just so self-conscious anyways, because you think everyone's looking at you all of a sudden. So I'm just more aware of like me, myself, what I'm saying, what I'm doing. So then anxiety like crept in. But I think

• 14:17Speaker 05

  maybe in the past two years, because the more obviously you do, the more you get like attention and comments and stuff. The past two years, I've definitely had like awful anxiety.

• 14:27Jamie Laing?

  Have you?

• 14:28Speaker 05

  Yeah, but it's not uncommon.

• 14:30Jamie Laing?

  Yeah.

• 14:31Speaker 05

  You know, be, it's not debilitating. I just know, and you know, double black coffee in the morning doesn't help. And I'm very aware, but it's, I, I don't know whether it's just me and myself tough love. It's part and parcel. Like, I asked for this and, you know, okay, cool. If I feel anxious, then you just do.

• 14:49Jamie Laing?

  For some reason, I don't, and I don't want to generalize this, but from, only from my personal view, like, I don't, I don't care about comments. Like, I don't care. I actually lean into it. I find it funny. If someone makes fun of my appearance, whatever, I, it doesn't faze me. Maybe that's.

• 15:00Speaker 05

  So good.

• 15:01Jamie Laing?

  Maybe because I've done it for, I've done it, made whatever it was. But Sophie, and it all makes me so upset. Even though Sophie once, she was very upset. And I said, and Sophie's a tough cookie, right? She's like tough. And she said, I'm, I'm starting to believe the comments. That made me so sad. And I went, you kidding me? You, this, you, you're, you're believing what these people are saying?

• 15:20Speaker 05

  Hmm.

• 15:20Jamie Laing?

  And she said that it was about a couple of years ago. And it made me realise that actually, especially maybe as a woman, people can be really hard.

• 15:28Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's, it's disgusting. And I actually was saying the other day, I wish I could just filter out people, you know? The girls are welcome on my page, unless you are over like forty-five and you just hate me. But it's, it's, what I've noticed is it's men and boys, not every single one, but when you start seeing the comments, the way they objectify you and they think you're dumb and they call you a slag, like, it's so disgusting and degrading and frustrating. I just want them off. Like, go away. I put up a TikTok the other day saying, oh, I've had a really good weekend because I've managed to go to the F1. And I'd read two books and they, the comments under it are disgusting and like dumb, slag. And I just, but the abundance of, it's got like three point two million views and all the comments are disgusting. I thought, what the fuck?

• 16:11Speaker 05

  Has my TikTok done to you for you to take time out of your day? And then I was looking at them, they're all men or boys. And I think, get off, go away.

• 16:19Jamie Laing?

  Fuck them.

• 16:20Speaker 05

  I know, fuck them. I wish they needed a filter to get rid of, I would just love the girls and the gays.

• 16:26Jamie Laing?

  Yeah.

• 16:27Speaker 05

  And I'd have a lovely time.

• 16:28Jamie Laing?

  But, but, but you know, you just, and for anyone who like, any comments, like, and this like relates to like, it's really tough because you're in the public eye, so people feel they have like, they have, they can comment, right? Which is firstly one thing, but then I think about like kids at school who are like getting online bullied.

• 16:47Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 16:47Jamie Laing?

  Just because, I don't know, whatever, they wore a pink jumper and someone wants to take the piss. And you, and as humans, we have to realise that we now live in this space where people just love to comment about it. But those, those people are idiots. They're morons. And it doesn't mean that you're a brilliant, wonderful, beautiful person. Give a shit what anyone else thinks.

• 17:04Speaker 05

  But it's like, it's scientific, isn't it? We look for negative bias. Even if there's loads and loads in the comments, like I'll see one and that's it. And I've started commenting back. If you're allowed to comment on me, I'm commenting on you too.

• 17:15Jamie Laing?

  You bite back.

• 17:16Speaker 05

  Stop. And I'm thinking, no, meet me outside. I'm not saying that. But those are always so ugly. And I say, or post a selfie or. Yeah. If I've got time, I am replying now. It's time to take a stand.

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