Sophie Gradon crowned Miss Love Island 2016 as she defends Zara Holland saying “girls like to have sex”
Zara left the show last weekend to be with her sick mum after being stripped of her Miss BG title
SOPHIE Gradon was crowned Miss Love Island 2016 on tonight's show after she gave an impassioned speech about Zara Holland.
The Love Island girls paid tribute to beauty queen when they were set the challenge of putting on their own pageant.
Zara left the show last weekend to be at home with her sick mum Cheryl.
Her departure came just days after she found out she had been stripped of her Miss great Britain title for having sex with Alex Bowen on the show.
Her housemates were sorry to see her go and so they held their own beauty pageant in her honour with the boys getting to choose the winner.
Each girl had to show off their individual talent in order to take away the top prize.
Zara broke down on Sunday night's episode when she heard the news.
She blurted out her emotions to her Love Island housemates and said: “I did Miss Great Britain because I wanted to.
"It’s something I wanted to do. And if you put that hard work in and the commitment and the time and the effort…I did and I won, and I worked so hard.
“And now I just made one silly, stupid mistake of being in the moment has ruined everything.”
An official statement from Miss GB officials read: “Following recent actions within ITV2 show 'Love Island' it is with deep regret that we, the Miss Great Britain Organisation, have to announce that Zara Holland has formally been de-crowned as Miss Great Britain.
"As an organisation we have not taken this decision lightly, we are close to all of our winners and wherever possibly stand by them during their reign.
"That said, we feel we have no choice but to make this decision under the circumstances."
Taking another swipe at Zara, 20, she insisted “she can’t be a title holder,” after her very public hook-up with hottie Alex.
The Glaswegian added: “I think the pageant community saw it coming."
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