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Meet Love Island's Jewish contestant: Eyal Booker
The 22-year-old model is described as the show's 'sexy, spiritual soul'
May 30, 2018 12:19
The 22-year-old model is described as the show's 'sexy, spiritual soul'
May 30, 2018 12:19The latest series of Love island has a Jewish contestant: 22-year-old Eyal Booker.
Booker, from Bushey, Hertfordshire, is a former JFS pupil who studied at Sylvia Young Theatre School and toured across the country with a band.
He is now a model with around 65,000 followers on Instagram.
The show's promo material describes him as "our sexy, spiritual soul".
"I have a fun energy and I am a spiritual person," he says. "I’d like to think I have a depth to me so I guess that stands out and I look at things quite deeply."
Booker will be competing with other 'islanders' for a £50,000 prize.
The 11 Love Island contestants live together in an isolated villa, under the constant eye of the cameras, and have to couple up to avoid being eliminated.
The show was revived in 2015 and became very popular. The new series starts on June 4 on ITV2.
Interviewed ahead of the show, Booker said he was taking part because he was "looking for love".
He said: "I have had quite a few relationships in my time, none have ever lasted that long and now I’m at a point where I’d actually like to find one that can last."
He added he was "a bit nervous" about doing the show but added: "My parents, my sister and my Gran might see something that they don’t necessarily want to see. Besides that, I’m excited."
In 2013, when Booker was 18, he told the JC how he interrupted his performance schedule with his band EverYoung to observe Yom Kippur at Bushey Synagogue.
He said of the band's tour: “We walk into schools and gigs as nobodies, and then we leave with girls screaming and crying. It’s pretty crazy and a dream come true to see fans singing back your lyrics.
"I’m having the time of my life.”
Love Island is on ITV2 at 9pm on June 4.
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