{"id":491407,"date":"2026-06-09T22:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/491407\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T22:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:19:10","slug":"irish-woman-victoria-onanusi-joins-fitzy-in-love-island-villa-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/491407\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish woman Victoria Onanusi joins Fitzy in Love Island villa \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Victoria Onanusi has joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/love-island\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/love-island\/\">Love Island<\/a> villa alongside fellow Irish contestant, Se\u00e1n Fitzgerald, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/galway-gaa\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/galway-gaa\/\">Galway<\/a> footballer and teacher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The 25-year-old, originally from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/kildare\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/kildare\/\">Kildare<\/a> and now living in Manchester, is a personal assistant and part-time model. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Onanusi featured in several fashion and beauty campaigns in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/united-kingdom\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/united-kingdom\/\">UK<\/a> before entering the villa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Kildare contestant has never \u201chad a boyfriend before\u201d and does not \u201creally believe in competition,\u201d but she says she believes if she is meant to find her first boyfriend in the villa, love will come her way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Victoria said: \u201cI have a really strong belief in myself, and I think what\u2019s meant for me will always be mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Love Island airs tonight at 9pm on Virgin Media Play and Virgin Media Two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victoria Onanusi has joined the Love Island villa alongside fellow Irish contestant, Se\u00e1n Fitzgerald, a Galway footballer and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,1397],"class_list":["post-491407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-love-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491407","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=491407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}