Sunday Brunch’s Simon Rimmer reveals daughter rejected Love Island as he slams show for ‘objectifying women’
SUNDAY Brunch star Simon Rimmer has revealed that his daughter rejected Love Island.
Simon, 60, slammed the show for “objectifying women” and called the hit ITV2 dating show “cruel.”
Simon’s 25-year-old daughter Flo caught the eye of Love Island producers after they appeared on their cooking series, named Flo and Simon Taste the World.
But he said she turned it down after being invited to take part via Instagram.
He explained: “My daughter got invited to go on it. Basically, they picked her up from Instagram because she has quite a big following because she has done stuff with me online and she turned it down.
“She's very much not a Love Island kind of person. But I thought it was a weird approach really. She is so not a Love Island person.
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“I wouldn't say it would be my dream job for her.
“But if she decided to do it she would do it for the right reasons, she wouldn't do it to find love she would be like 'you know what, this could be a career opportunity,' she's quite savvy so she would do it for those reasons rather than thinking, 'I'm going to find love,' but I don't think any of them really think that do they?”
Simon continued to tell that he finds the show “hard to watch,” and added that it’s a “massive step back for feminism and women.”
“I don't think it's what I want young people to be doing and how I want males to behave or the way females to behave,” he continued.
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The restaurant owner would also hate for his son Hamish, 20, to join the show, and follow in the footsteps of the likes of Jack Keating, Gemma Owen and Antigoni Buxton, all of which have famous parents.
He said: “It feels a bit weird that we're still having girls being treated like objects and I don't like that objectification.
“As a father of a daughter I don't think I would want… I don't want my son to behave in a way like that towards women and I don't want my daughter to be treated that way by men.”
Love Island’s new series kicks off on Monday, June 5, 2023, at 9pm on ITV2 and ITVX.
Fans will be treated all week long with hour long episodes of Love Island.
The Saturday episode will be a highlights episode, recapping the events of the past week.
