{"id":524380,"date":"2026-06-29T16:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/524380\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:08:12","slug":"who-is-charleen-murphy-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-irish-love-island-bombshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/524380\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Charleen Murphy? Everything you need to know about the Irish Love Island bombshell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Casa Amor returned to  Love Island over the weekend, and with it came a face familiar to many Irish viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Content creator  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/lifestyle\/arid-41185348.html\">Charleen Murphy<\/a> from Dublin joined the show as one of 12 Bombshells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Charleen has a huge social media following and has made headlines on several occasions. Here\u2019s what you need to know about the Irish Bombshell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">Who is Charleen Murphy?<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5137617_3_articleinline_love_island_s13_episode_28_07.jpg\" alt=\"Martha and Charleen on love Island \" title=\"Martha and Charleen on love Island \" class=\"card-img\"\/>Martha and Charleen on love Island <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Charleen is a content creator from Dublin, and is well known as a podcaster and social media influencer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">She co-hosts the popular  Hold My Drink podcast with Ellie Kelly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Charleen previously collaborated on beauty collections with Irish makeup brand Kash, founded by Keilidh Cashell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">How old is Charleen?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Charleen is 27 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">Who does she have her eye on? And does she know Fitzy?<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5137620_3_articleinline_love_island_s13_episode_28_21.jpg\" alt=\"Fitzy reacts to seeing Charlene joining Love Island\" title=\"Fitzy reacts to seeing Charlene joining Love Island\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Fitzy reacts to seeing Charlene joining Love Island<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Before entering the  Love Island villa, Charleen said she\u2019s intrigued by four of the contestants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cKavan, Aidan, Lorenzo and Sean [Fitzy] I\u2019d say. They have bits of my type in each of them but I think I\u2019d need to see that and to actually chat to them properly,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cKavan I would say out of all of them is my actual type on paper. I\u2019m excited to get to know all of them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On Monday night\u2019s episode, viewers will see Kavan and\u00a0Charleen\u00a0confess that they do like each other. Kavan tells\u00a0Charleen, \u201cI regret not kissing you last night,\u201d before\u00a0Charleen\u00a0cheekily replies, \u201cYou can do it now,\u201d\u00a0prompting the pair to lock lips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">However, she will also share a kiss on Monday&#8217;s episode with Fitzy, another Irish contestant who recognised her upon her arrival. As the pair greeted each other on Charleen\u2019s first day, she asked him:\u00a0\u201cIs it nice to see a familiar face?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">Is she there to find love?<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5137623_3_articleinline_love_island_s13_episode_29_08.jpg\" alt=\"Kav and Charleen locking lips \" title=\"Kav and Charleen locking lips \" class=\"card-img\"\/>Kav and Charleen locking lips <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Yes\u2026 and no.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cFinding love is the goal but I think drama probably comes along with the nature of Casa Amor. It\u2019s gonna happen,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI am a girl\u2019s girl, but I need to not think about the girls in the Villa because I haven\u2019t met them yet, this is my experience and my time. I need to go in with the blinkers on, and just think day one let\u2019s go and let\u2019s see what happens!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">Have we seen her in the news before?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Charleen spoke to the  Irish Examiner in 2023 about her regrets about documenting a cosmetic surgery procedure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n             <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/arid-41199925.html\">She told the Ciara Phelan Podcast<\/a> she reflected on sharing the details of her breast augmentation, including uploading a video with a step-by-step process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI kind of look back and I think&#8230; I wouldn\u2019t do it again if I was to get something else,\u201d she said, adding she did not share details about a later rhinoplasty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">She also spoke on the podcast about how she deals with negative commentary online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Separately, in 2023,  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/courtandcrime\/arid-41276611.html\">a man was sentenced to 18 months in prison<\/a> for an \u201cunprovoked and unwarranted attack\u201d on the social media influencer earlier that year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Craig O\u2019Brien of Thomond Road, Ballyfermot, Dublin 10, pleaded guilty to assault causing harm to Charleen Murphy at the Grafton Capital Hotel, Dublin 2, on February 10, 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">She read her own victim impact statement to the court and said: \u201cI share a lot of my life online and live a very public life. This was never an issue until February of this year\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">She told the court that she had \u201ca physical scar on her forehead, but that emotional scars don\u2019t fade\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Since the assault, she has suffered from nightmares, panic attacks and is \u201ca shell of myself\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cNot a day goes by that I don\u2019t think of it\u201d, she said, adding she hoped that \u201cjustice can be served\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>                Love Island continues tonight at 9pm on Virgin Media Play and Virgin Media Two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Casa Amor returned to Love Island over the weekend, and with it came a face familiar to many&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,19930,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-524380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-this-much-i-know-column-shape-i","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524380","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=524380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}