Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu Joins US Netflix Reality Show After 'Rock Bottom' Post-Celebrity Big Brother

Love Island’s Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu has signed up to a huge US show after admitting she hit ‘rock bottom’ following her stint on Celebrity Big Brother.

The reality star, 31, was evicted fourth from the ITV series in March 2024, after fellow housemates accused her of being fake and playing up for the cameras.

Earlier this year, Ekin-Su opened up about the difficult aftermath during an appearance on Jamie Laing’s Great Company podcast.

The star revealed she received death threats after the show aired, describing it as the ‘wrong show at the wrong time.’

The backlash took a toll on her mental health, leading her to spend hours crying on the floor before seeking help from a therapist.

Now, Ekin-Su is ready for a fresh start as she has been announced as one of the cast members for Inside: USA.

Love Island’s Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu has signed up to a huge US show after admitting she hit ‘rock bottom’ following her stint on Celebrity Big Brother

The reality star, 31, was evicted fourth from the ITV series in March 2024, after fellow housemates accused her of being fake and playing up for the cameras

Now, Ekin-Su is ready for a fresh start as she has been announced as one of the cast members for Inside: USA

Landing on Netflix on September 21, the reality show is based on a hit format created by UK YouTube group the Sidemen.

The show brings together internet personalities to live under one roof, where they’re constantly filmed and pushed to their limits through a series of challenges for a shared cash prize.

While the setup echoes Celebrity Big Brother – with its confined living space and 24/7 surveillance – Inside: USA introduces a competitive edge.

Contestants must work together to complete tasks and protect their prize fund, with even basic necessities coming at a cost.

Ekin-Su will be sharing the house with a mix of US celebrities, including Selling Sunset star Breana ‘Bre’ Tiesi, along with popular streamers and YouTubers such as Sketch, Jay Cinco, Sydney Thomas, and Max Fosh.

It comes after the beauty shed light on the tough period of her life.

Ekin-Su told how her road to rock bottom started with her split from her Love Island ex Davide Sanclimenti, before she then headed into the famous Celebrity Big Brother house while she still ‘felt worthless’.

On hitting rock bottom, she told Jamie: ‘It was a few times actually, it was after I broke up from my ex because it was hard to beak up with him as I still loved him.

It comes after the beauty shed light on the tough period of her life on Jamie Laing’s Great Company podcast [pictured] earlier this year

Shedding light on the tough period of her like, Ekin-Su told how her road to rock bottom started with her split from her Love Island ex Davide Sanclimenti

‘It was a very low point I felt because I already felt worthless going in the house, coming out to a lot of hate and death threats and people saying, “you don’t deserve to be alive”

‘I didn’t speak about it, my family knew but I didn’t speak about it. I buried that in me.

‘Then I did the Traitors US and then I flew from LA to the Big Brother house… Wrong show, wrong time.

‘You know, I was gone at the time, mentally, I don’t think I was myself. Came back from Big Brother. Obviously, there was a lot of hate going on.

‘It was a very low point I felt because I already felt worthless going in the house, coming out to a lot of hate and death threats and people saying, you know, like, “you don’t deserve to be alive. I’m going to come and find you and kill you”.

‘Like all these really nasty things, like “you should be ashamed to be who you are. You deserve to be bullied”. It is triggering. It triggers things.’

On how she reacted, she continued: ‘And I was in my flat, and I was just sitting on the floor and just burst into tears for a good three hours, just crying, and I just felt like I didn’t know while I was like, touching myself thinking, “is this real? Am I? Is this fake?”

‘It was a really weird mind things I was going through, it felt like this whole thing wasn’t real’, with Jamie then noting that it was ‘disassociation’.

She continued: ‘And I felt like, what happens if I just went away? Surely that would be a good thing? Maybe I… I had weird things going through my head.’

On how she reacted, she continued: ‘And I was in my flat, and I was just sitting on the floor and just burst into tears for a good three hours, just crying’

Ekin-Su then went on to say that she was urged to seek therapy from a worried friend, with the sessions enabling her to turn her life around.

She informed Jamie: ‘After that one session, it kind of was like, “Right. You need to take yourself away for a week of self-care. Y

‘You need to switch off your phone and realise that Ekin, you’re you haven’t done anything wrong. Like the feeling is temporary. It’s not real. This depression, it’s not real. It’s not who you are.'” Took me a while to get out of it.

‘The therapist recommended I speak the truth because if you don’t tell the truth, you’ll always have that anxiety in you.

‘So, I eventually did, and that felt like a weight off my shoulders, but it’s hard, because people look at you, especially in the industry, and think you’re this amazing person.

‘You have everything that’s going for you, but is that the reality of it? It’s not – we’re all human.’