Danny Dyer was so furious about daughter Dani going on Love Island they didn’t speak for weeks
DANNY Dyer has revealed he was so furious about daughter Dani going on Love Island they didn’t speak for weeks.
The 43-year-old actor was left fuming when he discovered that his eldest was set to appear on the reality dating show.
The pair revealed they had stopped speaking in the lead up to the show, with Danny telling his daughter to "f*** off" as she departed.
Dani, who was working as a dental nurse, decided to pack her job in for a chance at finding love on the ITV2 show in 2018.
Dani said: “I loved being a dental nurse but it wasn’t somewhere I wanted to be forever. Then Love Island happened."
The EastEnders star said: “Everything was going all lovely and you were getting on with it and all of a sudden you sat me down.”
Dani said: “He didn’t like me. We didn’t really talk. It was very awkward. Oh my god, I’d walk into the room and it would be so awkward."
He added: “No we didn’t talk. I think I was upset because we were very close and you’d spoke about it to everyone, I was the last f***er.”
The reality beauty explained: “Because you kept saying to me, it sort of came out a couple of months before that I was supposed to be going on Love Island and in my brain I wasn’t.
"Then you said to me ‘am I going to go on Love Island?’ and I was like ‘no it’s all a rumour’. But that was a rumour then and then I sat there and thought maybe I should consider it.”
The soap actor was still raging as his daughter headed to the airport, admitting that he was "petrified".
He said: "I set you off, I put your suitcase in the boot all f***ing angry and I said 'go on just f***ing go and do what you got to do.'"
Danny then praised his daughter for being the perfect "loyal" contestant showing her "vulnerable" side.
He added: "I was petrified but it turned out well. I just became a viewer like everyone else and I didn't have any contact with you and I just watched this very authentic vulnerable thing unfold.
"If you could write a script for doing eight weeks on Love Island that would be the script you would write, because you were loyal in there and you turned your life around."
Dani coupled up with Jack Fincham on the first episode of the 2018 series, staying together throughout before winning the programme in the final.
They remained loved-up until April 2019, when they broke up after realising they were "not compatible".
Nine months after their split, Jack welcomed a baby of his own; sending fans into meltdown as he announced daughter Blossom's arrival in January of this year.
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Meanwhile, Dani was quick to reignite her love with former flame Sammy Kimmence, and welcomed baby Santiago in January.
Jack proved that there is no bad blood between him and his former flame, he previously gushed: "I'm so happy for her. She'll make a brilliant mum as well."