The baby of this year's cast of Love Island has taken to her personal YouTube channel to share with fans some of her biggest concerns surrounding the hit matchmaking TV show.
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She initially declined the offer
Owen revealed that she had previously been contacted by producers to join the show but that she had initially declined because of her busy riding schedule. She later on reconsidered as the dressage season was not going as smoothly as she had planned. She explained:
This year again I got approached and initially thought I still wasn't feeling it, but after a few competitions at the start of the season, my riding wasn't going to go the way I wanted it to.I pretty much ruled myself out of the season. So, pretty quickly the door for Love Island opened and I started going through the process.
And added:
The further I got into the process and the more I got a feel of it, I just loved it. I was like, this is what I'm going to be doing during the summer.
'Am I going to be taken seriously again?'
She went on to explain that ultimately her biggest fear lied in not being taken seriously in the dressage world given the nature of the show and some of its risqué challenges. She said:
One was how will it affect my riding? If I go on a show like that, am I going to be taken seriously again back in the dressage world? Am I going to get back to international level? Secondly, going on a show like that, sometimes you can have a bit of a stigma and be labelled with a certain kind of thing, which I didn't want to be labelled with.
Before adding:
I wanted to keep my image very clean and come across very classy. Sometimes I felt, am I going to be able to maintain that, especially in some of the challenges and things like that. They were my concerns about going on but in the end I thought the positives outweigh the negatives. I'm glad, obviously, that I went on. It was the best summer of my life and I wouldn't change a thing.
