Olivia Attwood has revealed she doesn’t think she and her husband Bradley Dack would be together now if she hadn’t gone on Love Island.
The TV host, 33, found fame on the 2017 series of the show where she reached the final with Chris Hughes, who she split from the following year.
Olivia and Brad were in a relationship prior to Love Island but they broke up so she accepted the producers offer to enter the villa.
Speaking on the How To Fail podcast with Elizabeth Day, she said: ‘If I hadn’t gone on Love Island, I don’t think we would be together. We had to pull away for us to both get perspective.
‘Brad is the first male, dating relationship I’ve had where he has his own thing, his own job, his own goals and I have mine and he wants me to have them.’
The couple tied the knot with footballer Bradley, 31, in a lavish ceremony at the five-star hotel Bulgari in Knightsbridge in June 2023.
Olivia Attwood has revealed she doesn’t think she and her husband Bradley Dack would be together now if she hadn’t gone on Love Island
The TV host, 33, found fame on the 2017 series of the show where she reached the final with Chris Hughes, who she split from the following year
Love Island producers had their eye on Olivia for quite some time and she had turned down offers to be on the show before.
She said: ‘I’d turned Love Island down twice for boyfriends. I had a bit of a come to Jesus moment where I said, what are you doing? You have to go and do something.
‘The easier thing would be to just stay here again and argue with this guy I’m seeing about why he’s not treating me right.’
Elsewhere during the chat, Olivia told how she hardly ever cries which she put down to the emotional toll of past relationships.
She said: ‘I cried a lot in those past relationships, cried until I could pass out, as if someone had died in these breakups and arguments. Now, I don’t want go back to her so I’ve shut it.’
Olivia recently revealed she and Bradley are ‘prioritsing their careers’ before starting a family.
Bradley has continued with his football, Olivia’s career has gone from strength-to-strength with her TV shows, podcast and numerous appearances on Loose Women.
Opening up to Daily Mail about her future plans, Olivia said: ‘I feel like we are in that point in our life where Bradley and I are both prioritising our careers and relationships, we are going after our dreams and goals in our separate fields and then the time we spend together is really precious.
Speaking on the How To Fail podcast with Elizabeth Day, she said: ‘If I hadn’t gone on Love Island, I don’t think we would be together. We had to pull away for us to both get perspective’
Olivia said: ‘Brad is the first male, dating relationship I’ve had where he has his own thing, his own job, his own goals and I have mine and he wants me to have them’
‘There will be different eras in our life and like when we start a family I will automatically, naturally have to be more present, as will he.’
On the idea of becoming a mother, she continued: ‘I think its not something I fear, or it’s like OK I’ve a year until the cut off, because I think there is a way of existing in both worlds but we are enjoying what we have right now’.
Indeed, while the presenter is opting to prioritise work for now, she has plenty of things to keep her busy with plenty of projects in the pipeline.
As well as the release of Olivia Attwood: Getting Filthy Rich season three earlier this month, fans will also get to see her star in season three of Olivia Attwood’s So Wrong It’s Right (13 Feb) as well as the second season of Bad Boyfriends coming in September.
