Jenny Powell's daughter declines Love Island offer three times for very different path

Jenny Powellmight be one of Britain’s most glamorous TV stars - but don’t expect her eldest daughter to be strutting round the Love Island villa in a tiny bikini any time soon.

In fact, Connie, Jenny’s 24-year-old first-born, has now politely declined an invite to join the smash-hit dating show not once, not twice - but THREE times, her mum reveals in an exclusive chat. “They’ve asked her three times now!” laughs Jenny, who at 57 (and looking about 37!) is still a firm TV favourite, regularly popping up on everything from Loose Women to presenting at this summer’s Rewind Festival.

Jenny, who lives in South Manchester with fiancé Martin Lowe, 51, and their youngest daughter Pollyanna, 16, says she’s secretly relieved Connie has no interest in reality fame.

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“I was on Loose Women and all of a sudden I got a call,” she said. “It was during lockdown and she was at uni. She was like, I’m at UCL studying Art History, I don’t think I’m up for doing that! I think it’s quite cool that she’s turned it down three times! I quite like it. If we ever meet someone famous they are not impressed at all. They’re not bothered.”

While plenty of 20-somethings would jump at the chance for sun, scandal and a six-figure influencer deal, Jenny says Connie is cut from a different cloth entirely - and so is her youngest, Pollyanna.

“Connie posts on Instagram about once a year. Do you know what I mean? She's not that person. And therefore I don't think she would even realise the pressure and the attention she'd get. I think I'd worry for her.”

Jenny says she’s proud Connie didn’t get swept up in the showbiz circus, and reckons her grounded attitude comes from a solid upbringing - and the knock-on effects of a tough few years during the pandemic.

“I just think we don't realise in this day and age, even though all these young people, they've got this facade, they're all so confident and look a certain way and all that stuff. But actually, I think there is a huge fragility in these past couple of generations, especially ones that have been through shit through COVID.”

“I mean, you know, for her, she got a degree on her own, sitting in a room. Those amazing uni years at UCL, which is up there with Oxford, and UCL's major. She's got three A stars. Connie worked at Maddox Galleries in Mayfair.”

“Now, she decided she's done enough there. Then she's gone to Knight Frank, shares a flat with her friend from Manchester. She's got a lovely boyfriend. She's very old school. Old soul. They both are. I think it will help them through these times, because they're not great times.”

While Connie is not the only daughter of a famous British celebrity to be associated with the show,Princess Andre, 18, was also rumoured to be entering the villa but dad, Peter, quickly turned down those rumours.

In his exclusive weekly column about the rumours that eldest daughter Princess, who just turned 18, could be signing up to Love Island - he admits that he doesn't know where the rumours came from, and says at 17 she can't legally apply yet anyway.

He says: "There’s been a lot of talk about Princess going on Love Island, and I don’t know where it came from. She’s not 18 yet, so it’s not even an option." He adds that, though he would support her if she wanted to sign up to the ITV2 show, it's not something he'd ever choose for her.

"Whether she chooses to do it in the future is up to her, but of course it’s every dad’s nightmare. Then again, I look at people like Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury, and others, and see how happy they were in their relationships that came from the show. It’s about what makes Princess happy at the end of the day. I wouldn’t stop her, but if she asks my opinion, I’ll be honest."

In a recent episode of her podcast, Katie Price revealed that she has tried to encourage her daughter Princess Andre to sign up for competition show Love Island. However, the model and entrepreneur has tellingly responded that she doesn't want to be known as a 'Love Islander'.

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