{"id":479379,"date":"2026-06-02T15:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/479379\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:28:27","slug":"sean-fitzgeralds-sister-reveals-what-their-parents-think-of-his-love-island-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/479379\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Fitzgerald&#8217;s sister reveals what their parents think of his Love Island appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSean Fitzgerald&#8217;s sister reveals what their parents think of his Love Island appearance\n<\/p>\n<p>Love Island\u2019s Sean Fitzgerald\u2019s sister has revealed what the family really thinks about his appearance on the show.<\/p>\n<p>The GAA star made his bleach blonde debut in the villa on Monday, but according to his sister Katie, viewers haven\u2019t seen the real Sean in action just yet.<\/p>\n<p>She also revealed that she had to explain the good and \u2018the bad\u2019 points of the show to her parents, who had never seen it before, and how they feel about his being on the show.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780414106_394_li22.jpg\" alt=\"Sean. Pic: ITV\" class=\"wp-image-2151064\"\/>Sean. Pic: ITV<\/p>\n<p>\u2018They\u2019re nervous, they watched it for the first time ever, and they enjoyed it, to be fair. They thought he came across really well and like, natural,\u2019 she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/irelandamvmtv\/reels\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/irelandamvmtv\/reels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told Ireland AM<\/a>, although she added that he did get a talking to from them before he flew out.<\/p>\n<p>Katie also admitted that she was \u2018a ball of nerves\u2019 watching him on Monday, despite regularly seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2026\/06\/02\/sport\/galway-management-no-grudges-fitzy\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2026\/06\/02\/sport\/galway-management-no-grudges-fitzy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">him on screen with his football<\/a> and on TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>One episode down, and she says that Sean appears to be easing his way into the show and that she\u2019s hopeful to see more of his personality as it goes on. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018You can really see his personality on TikTok, and I feel like, so far in last night\u2019s episode, he didn\u2019t really show that side of him yet, but hopefully now in the next couple of episodes.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The first episode saw Sean pair up with Lola, the detective, and Katie approves, for the sweetest reason. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780414107_870_ean.jpg\" alt=\"Sean and Lola couple up on Love Island's launch show. Pic: ITV\" class=\"wp-image-2151091\"\/>Sean and Lola couple up on Love Island\u2019s launch show. Pic: ITV<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I really like her, I feel like so far she\u2019s coming across quite shy, but hopefully in the next couple of episodes she will kind of come out of her comfort zone and stuff, but I think she might calm Sean down a bit sometimes because he\u2019s a bit mad!<\/p>\n<p>Katie also weighed in on Sean\u2019s brave hairstyle, explaining: \u2018Loads of people like it, he [previously] got it done last year and loads of people liked it, so he had to do what people liked.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Fitzgerald&#8217;s sister reveals what their parents think of his Love Island appearance Love Island\u2019s Sean Fitzgerald\u2019s sister&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-479379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}