A 23-year-old who was initially anxious to share her intimacy journey on a reality television show has said her confidence has gone “through the roof”.<\/p>\n
Katie Hudson, from Peterborough, applied to take part in Channel 4’s Virgin Island as soon as she saw its first episode air in 2025.<\/p>\n
Hudson, who works as a nanny, said several topics in the first series “resonated” with her, including “body issues, anxiety and past trauma”.<\/p>\n
“Since leaving the island, or even on the island, my confidence has just gone through the roof and I feel so much happier and know who I am now,” she said.<\/p>\n
The programme follows 12 people taking part in an “intimacy retreat” featuring sex therapists. It aired its second series in April.<\/p>\n
They were taken to an island off Croatia, exploring topics through workshops led by a team of sex therapists.<\/p>\n
On arriving, Hudson said: “My anxiety was through the roof.<\/p>\n
“Obviously, I was ready to meet these people and do things I’ve never done before.<\/p>\n
“I really struggled the first two days. I was very quiet… just letting everyone else speak and do their thing.<\/p>\n
“But you fall into it so quickly and we have all bonded, so having the 11 others just helped incredibly.”<\/p>\n
She said the experience felt “like walking on to a movie set”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 23-year-old who was initially anxious to share her intimacy journey on a reality television show has said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-639483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}