Olivia Attwood has revealed she finds it hard to feel sorry for herself or others in the influencing industry because of their ‘amazing lives’ and the freedom to walk away from the job.
The 33-year-old took part in the 2017 series of Love Island, placing third with her ex-boyfriend Chris Hughes, and has since risen to stratospheric fame with ITV presenting roles and a successful podcast, So Wrong it’s Right.
But speaking to beauty expert Caroline Hirons on the podcast, Glad We Had This Chat, Olivia said: ‘There’s bad sides to every single job, of course.
‘And we should all be able to recognise the negatives that any job has but I do have a hard time feeling sorry for myself or anyone in our industry.
‘Like, we live the most amazing lives and it’s a very privileged place to be.
Olivia Attwood revealed she finds it hard to feel sorry for herself or others in the influencing industry because of their ‘amazing lives’ and the freedom to walk away from the job (Pictured last month)
Olivia has since risen to stratospheric fame with ITV presenting roles and a successful podcast, So Wrong it’s Right (Pictured last month)
‘When you have a platform and people want to listen to you and they want to engage with you, I think, how lucky can you actually be?
‘And if you don’t like it, you can get out of it, you don’t have to stay in it and keep telling everyone how much you hate it and how miserable you are.
‘You can just go and do something else. I know that sounds a little bit callous, but I just think you have to hit the nail on the head with it a little bit.’
Olivia went from competing in an ITV reality show to hosting her own in less than six years as the show, Bad Boyfriends, aired on the channel last month.
While many former Love Island contestants have struggled when coming to terms with overnight fame, the Celebs Go Dating star revealed she found the whole process ‘freeing’.
Olivia, who had started work as a Grid Girl for Monster aged 19, said: ‘I was working for a lot of like energy drink companies going around doing the F1, and it was a very restrictive existence.
‘We all had to look the same, we had to have the set nail colour, the set hair colour. There was one uniform size. It was a pressure.
‘It was like water off a duck’s back. So coming out of Love Island, I did have the experience of going in with however many thousand followers and coming out on like a million, so that was very surreal.
The 33-year-old took part in the 2017 series of Love Island, placing third with her ex-boyfriend Chris Hughes (Pictured)
But speaking to beauty expert Caroline Hirons on the podcast, Glad We Had This Chat, Olivia said: ‘There’s bad sides to every single job, of course’ (Pictured in July)
Olivia went from competing in an ITV reality show to hosting her own in less than six years as the show, Bad Boyfriends, aired on the channel last month (Pictured on Love Island in June 2017)
‘But I found the whole thing quite freeing because for the first time ever, it was me as an individual and what I had to say people cared about.
‘It was exciting and I think I adapted pretty well you know, the hardest part of me coming out of that show was the relationship and trying to naviate that, and then that fell apart and that was just messy.’
Olivia went on to explain that a diagnosis of ADHD when she was in her early twenties helped her navigate fame because ‘I knew what was good and what was bad for me in terms of triggering those symptoms’.
Caroline Hirons Glad We Had This Chat podcast is available on Apple, Spotify, and all major podcast platforms.
It came after Olivia said ‘consider me available’ to host Love Island following her recent success hosting another TV show.
It came after Olivia said ‘consider me available’ to host Love Island following her recent success hosting another TV show (Pictured in August as the Bad Boyfriends host)
The Bad Boyfriends star, who tried to find love in the villa in 2017, became the face of her own show where she tries to whip a group of boys into respectful partners.
Speaking to The Sun, she said: ‘I have such an emotional connection to that show and the people that make it.
‘Even if I had some reason, I couldn’t turn it down because my heart would feel like: ‘I’m going home! Back to the mother ship!’
‘So if that day ever comes, consider me available.’
