Kerry Katona slams Love Island saying show is ‘for kids now’ and begs bosses to let her host middle-aged version
KERRY Katona thinks Love Island is for “kids now” and she’s desperate to host the middle-aged version.
The 42-year-old slammed the current version of the show as she insisted she has just what it takes to be the face of the new spin-off.
Writing in , Kerry explained: “I think I’d do an amazing job hosting it. I also have life experience and kids – part of the show’s format is that it’s the grown-up children who put their single parents forwards!
“I’d love to watch people my age fall in love. Love Island is like a kids’ show now, it doesn’t feel natural.”
Earlier this month ITV announced they were doing a Love Island spin-off as they appealed to love-lorn ageing wannabes to apply.
The series will be called The Romance Retreat and air on the main channel, as opposed to the younger-skewing sister network.
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Producers are inviting "single parents" to audition for the eagerly anticipated Love Island-style series.
The blurb for the show reads: "ITV1 are looking for vibrant single parents from across the UK who are in search of love, for a brand new dating show!
" This is the ONLY dating show where single parents can search for love, by spending time in a luxury retreat, where all the parents have been nominated by their grown up children."
Kerry already has competition to take the helm thought because Kelly Brook – who presented the first ever series of Love Island – has thrown her hat into the ring.
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And Davina McCall has made no secret of the fact she has begged to host an older version of Love Island.
The star - who shot to fame in 1998 as the presenter of Channel 4's dating show Streetmate - pitched the idea to ITV bosses who said they were working on a similar concept.
Davina, 55, said: "I've got no embarrassment or shame in emailing a TV company and going 'have you thought about this? What about this? Can I do this?'
"I'm literally begging ITV to let me present mid-life Love Island.
"I could fill a villa in Love Island with middle aged people with the best back stories you have ever heard in your life.
"They've lived a life, they're widows, they're people who have been through horrific divorces."
