CHLOE BURROWS on Life after Love Island | GREAT MOMENTS

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1:06Hello everyone, I'm Jamie Lang and this is Great Moments. Hey everyone, I hope you're well and welcome back to Great Moments. Now if you're new here, this is the place where I'm going to bring you a standout moment from one of my favorite great company conversations. These are the moments that have stayed with me long after the recording And I hope you can take something away from them Now if today's conversation leaves you wanting more You can find the link to the full episode in the show notes So sit back, settle in, and here it is

1:40Okay, so you go on Love Island I did I need every detail of how does that happen? What happens? Do they send you a message? do you do interview what goes down when that happens okay so i had a friend of a friend who was an exec on a few shows and they were trying to get me to go on um celebs go dating as a datey for wayne lineker and tom zanetti but i had yeah that's a big combo that's a big and i almost did joking i did it a little bit yeah a little bit no so they so she was trying to get me and i had this call but i had a job like in finance so i after cold calling got moved to because i got my degree in marketing i was like head of the digital marketing bit for this but like finance company i got this is not worth the risk because i would be so sacked like there's no way you can go to like financial services after being on tv snogging wayne lindica that doesn't happen so no this isn't worth the risk and then they called again for james locky and i thought no don't want to do that either like no no shame to him but i thought if i'm getting airtime i've it's got to get me a new job i mean i'm getting so sacked so i thought no not that one and then they call me entrepreneurial of you to think like if this is a stepping stone it has to offer me something the risk versus reward has to be good well actually if you want the truth i was interviewing for other jobs but I could not get a job and I thought well if I'm sacked I'm actually fucked because I haven't got a job and I've got one imagine if I'm unemployed and not being able to interview like I can't do that so then there was this other show it went on ITV2 I can't remember what it's called but it was basically one single girl and 12 boys and 6 of them were taken 6 of them were single and she had to like date them all and at the end she would pick one and if he was single they'd split the money but if he was taken him and his girlfriend would take the money anyway so that was the premise of the show So it was things that I thought, should I do it?

3:39Should I do it? Should I do it? And I've got, so that was like a few Zoom calls because I think it was COVID. And then at the end, I was just like, I just don't know if I should. And then the girl, oh, I forgot her name, Georgia. She was like, okay, I actually know exactly what show you should be on. She was like, right, I'm going to pass your number on, whatever. And then the next day I was working from home and I just got a call and it was like, is that Chloe? I was like, yeah. They were like, do you want to go for a long, hot summer? I was like, fucking yes. It is Love Island. They were like, yeah.

4:06I was like, yeah, I do. what do you want um so they'd obviously had my details and producers and then I think I jumped on a zoom the next day and they just asked me a bit about myself dating history and I was just saying whatever I thought would get me on that show and then they called me down to London they said yeah you're going to be the first bombshell and that was kind of signed so delivered in a month and I knew when I was flying out because I said some horrific stuff probably but I think what you you're you're entrepreneurial like yeah a hundred percent because I can see it in the way that you sort of view things, which is a really good way.

4:39You're not sort of part of the system. You're always looking at ways that how can something offer me? And if I need to get it, how am I going to find... If I want to get something, I'm going to find a way of getting it. Yeah. Right. That's always the really good way of doing things, I always think. What horrific stuff did you say in the interview? Oh, I'm sure you might have seen a clip of you, TikTok or social media. I basically said that I'm partial to a married man and they loved it. The story of that, I have addressed it a few times. Basically, when I worked in finance, I met this man. We fell in love.

5:12Obviously, he was my new hyperfixation. And then I found out he had a wife and kids and I dumped him. But obviously, I oversold it because the producer was like, oh, do you like married men? And I was like, I fucking love married men because I was getting on that show regardless, you know. And they ask you questions like, what if a girl tried to move to your man? I'd be like, well, it's not friend I learned. Like, no girl can ever take a man from me. I didn't mean it but I knew what they wanted me to say like I'm not dumb so I just gave them what they wanted there's a few things firstly how not everyone knows that oh come on it's love life but if someone takes your mind you're not going to be like have a nice chat no fight for him but I think no one that's that's confidence like whether you're meaning to be confident always it's just like no if I'm being so honest here like if someone if someone got me an interview and said that I would be a bit like oh I don't know I'd probably chat about it and see if we could work out some sort of deal.

6:07That's what I would have done. Having not had the TV experience, having had the TV experience now, I know what they want. But being naive to the situation, which you were, knowing what they want, that's unique, man. It is 100 % unique. Yeah, perhaps. But then I spoke to Millie. Millie said the same thing. I think everyone who goes on there is a bit bullshaky. Well, on our season, it was quite all of us. like you can't talk to my man you know when you go in as the bombshell how nerve-wracking is it it was an out-of-body experience i don't know how i did that they kind of said you pull up and they always say to you as well like the pressure's on they say you are not in that villa until you are in that villa like even if you're waiting outside they might turn around and say actually no you know and you don't want to do anything wrong because i thought i'm going in that fucking villa.

7:00They put me in a port cabin. In a porter cabin? They have loads. Well, they did. I don't know if it's changed, but they had like port cabins outside the villa. I don't know what for. They were like all the way up the road. And I was held in there and I had my chaperone. And they didn't really tell me what was going on. I knew I was going to be a bombshell, but it was day one. So they were all doing the coupling. So I must have got there like 3 p.m. And I was just sat. Oh, I got my hair and makeup done. And I thought, yes, please. I shouldn't have done that. I looked unwell. but um got my hair and makeup done and then they kind of do the outfit options and then they came around and said okay right so what you're gonna do is you're gonna send a voice note saying you're outside the villa and give the boys an option to come and meet you I thought what you've set me up here just let me walk in and say hello and pull someone for chat so I was like okay obviously I didn't say anything I was like great can't wait that's exactly what I wanted to do today um and then they came around and were making me do this voice note and I was so nervous and I had to be like, hey boys, I'm outside.

7:58This voice came out of me. I was inside. She's like, hey boys, Chloe here. I don't know. I've never spoken that way since. I don't know. Yeah. Hey. Hey boys, Chloe here. I'm outside the billow. And they're like, can you make it sexier? I was like, no. So I did that. And then they just led me up. They didn't tell me who was coming, how many. Just kind of throw you in. What is the experience like being in there? Like for someone who knows it, but also someone who doesn't, it's pretty real. It's obviously structured in a way. I know TV, there's producers and things like this, but it's pretty organic, pretty real.

8:39It's a big brother house, but sexy, fun, and with a swimming pool. Yeah, for sure. It was just surreal. It's much smaller in real life. I remember walking and thinking, oh my gosh. But I think, I don't really remember how I felt during the first week, but it's intense and it's like go go go and then I think I kind of clocked on earlier because the producers will pull you in the morning and at night and they kind of suss where your heads up for the day and what you want to do and then perhaps they'll say oh why don't you go and have this chat it's not you need to say this you know what I mean and they'll kind of nudge you along but it was very go go go remember because I didn't really like I got along with the girls but we weren't like besties because obviously I was the first bomb shot they'd already like made their group on the first day so they did that and then um I didn't really have I was probably closest to like Kaz and Lib when I first went in there but then there was a whole situation with Toby kind of cat among pigeons and then Millie and Lucinda came in and that kind of changed my whole experience because we just got along like from the second we met and then it was just became a lot more like fun and less serious because when you're in there like you're fighting for your life you are right that's exactly what it is yeah and it's intense and you there is a pressure you know to go and speak to that boy and i've met these boys for two days i ain't got fucking clue they are oh now i'm sharing a bed like it's very you just you've got to take it in your stride and just go go go yeah and you've also you you also think in your head you're like i've made the decision to do this yeah and so now i'm in the situation where i'm now going to be on love island yeah that means that my life back home is going to change in lots of different way especially from going into like getting a job and things like that because people rightly or wrongly are probably going to view you in a in a different light yeah for sure and so then you're thinking well i have to make this work yeah and i thought you i've got to be in here more than four weeks like i actually knew in my head to make it worth it i haven't got a job when i go home like i've actually got to be in here so wow that's quite like a defining like thing to have like Because I remember when I did Made in Chelsea I remember that's what my thought process was It was like Okay, I've decided to go down this show Doing a reality show That means this life of going down wealth management Or being a broker Or whatever I was wanting That's now gone So I've got to make this work And that was very anxiety I had a lot of anxiety because of that Because I was like I now have no plan B Especially at that age When it's all a lot in the air It's quite a lot, isn't it?

11:10And you're right at the birth Of people being famous On social your own reality TV. Like that's even more pressure. I feel like people from my season onwards, with Love Island been on a minute, there was kind of a blueprint as such. You don't understand the public's perception and it's not a 24-7 live feed, unfortunately, and editing, etc. So some people do get dealt a bad hand, but you did sign up to do it in a way. I don't know. It's tough. But did you, when you came out, did you feel anxiety? worry or stress or anything like that? I think the first three months were just an absolute blur. It was just an absolute whirlwind.

11:52You know, I was all of a sudden going to Dubai and like LA and all this, but I'd never been, I was working for like JD. It was like, my life was a movie. You almost like, you get on this treadmill, I think, and you're just waking up and going through the motions. You don't actually sit back and take it all in. And then I think anxiety definitely crept but maybe it was after my ADHD diagnosis I started to become more aware of like me and myself and then anxiety just creeps in and then you have more time you the first six months are just a big blur like if you kind of make it to the final you don't take a minute and then after that I kind of had more time and then you start to look at the comments and you're just so self conscious anyways because you think everyone's looking at you all of a sudden so I'm just more aware of like me myself what i'm saying what i'm doing so then anxiety like crept in but i think maybe in the past two years because the more obviously you do the more you get like attention and comments and stuff the past two years i've definitely had like awful anxiety have you yeah but it's not uncommon yeah you know it's not debilitating i just know and you know double black coffee in the morning doesn't help and I'm very aware but it's I don't know whether it's just me giving myself tough love it's part and parcel like I asked for this and you know okay cool if I feel anxious then you just do for some reason I don't and I don't want to generalize this but from only from my personal view I don't I don't care about comments like I don't care I actually lean into I find it funny if someone makes fun of my appearance whatever I it doesn't phase me maybe that's so good maybe because I've done it for I've done it made whatever it was but Sophie and it all makes me so upset Sophie once she was very upset and I said and Sophie's a tough cookie right she's like tough and she said I'm starting to believe the comments that made me so sad and I went you're kidding me you're believing what these people are saying and she said it was about a couple years ago and it made me realize that actually especially maybe as a woman people can be really hard yeah it's disgusting and as you were saying the other day I wish I could just filter out people you know the girls are welcome on my page unless you are over like 45 and you just hate me but it's it's what I've noticed is it's men and boys not every single one but when you start seeing the comments the way they objectify you and they think you're dumb and they call you a slag like it's so disgusting and degrading and frustrating I just want them off like go away I put up a TikTok the other day saying oh I've had a really good weekend so I've managed to go to the F1 and I'd read two books and the comments under it are disgusting and like dumb, sag, and I just, but the abundance of, it's got like 3.2 million views and all the comments are disgusting.

14:32I thought, what the fuck has my TikTok done to you for you to take time on your day? And then I was looking at them and they're all men or boys. And I think, get off, go away. Fuck them. I know, fuck them. Fuck them. I wish they needed a filter to get rid of, I would just love the girls and the gays. Yeah. And I'd have a lovely time. but but you know you just and for anyone who like any comments like and this like relates to like it's really tough because you're in the public eye so people feel they have like and they have they can comment right which is one firstly one thing but then i think about like kids at school who are like getting online bullied yeah just because i don't know whatever they wore a pink jumper and someone wants to take the piss and you and as humans we have to realize that we now live in this space where people just love to comment about it but those people are idiots.

15:21They're morons and it doesn't mean you're a brilliant, wonderful, beautiful person. Give a shit what any of those things. But it's like, it's scientific, isn't it? We look for negative bias. 100%. Even if there's loads and loads of comments like I'll see one and that's it. And I've started commenting back. If you're allowed to comment on me, I'll comment on you too. You bite back. I'm thinking no, meet me outside. I'm not saying that but they'll say oh, you're so ugly and I say oh, post a selfie or yeah. If I haven't got time, I am replying now. It's time to take a stand.

16:09Hello, guys. It's Jamie and Sophie from the Newly Parents podcast here. Coming up on this week's episode. I remember almost breaking my ass. I was rollerblading. The road ripped my ass cheeks. Why did it grip so much to the ground? And how big was your bum at nine? It was honestly like one cheek got super glued to the ground and the other one was on ice. Listen or watch wherever you get your podcasts. Here's a tip for you. There's a podcast out there with fans waiting to be your next customer. They tune in every week, they trust the host, and that host wants to talk about brands like yours in their own words to their audience.

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