Sophie Monk on Love Island, Meeting Her Husband Mid-Flight & Learning to Love Herself
Sophie Monk met her husband, Josh, on a 16-hour flight home from filming the first season of Love Island Australia. Three hours in, she asked if he was single.
This year she hosts her eighth season, from the Love Island USA villa in Fiji. She talks openly about insecurity, anxious attachment and the self-sabotage that kicks in when a relationship feels too good to be true. She also has a Love Island secret she isn’t allowed to share yet.
In this conversation, Sophie Monk joins Marie Claire Editor Georgie McCourt to talk about love, ego and her 26-year career, from Bardot to Hollywood.
This episode covers:
- How Sophie Monk met her husband, Josh Gross, on a 16-hour flight
- Inside Love Island Australia season 8 and the Fiji villa
- The biggest misconception about Love Island
- Anxious attachment, codependency and self-sabotage
- Falling in love later in life
- Why your “type” is probably wrong
- Ego, rejection and why playing hard to get still works
- Growing up with ADD
- Dating through the paparazzi years
- 26 years from Bardot to Hollywood
- Can money buy happiness?
Love Island Australia season 8 streams Monday to Thursday from 10am on 9Now, and at 8.30pm on Channel 9. Watch on 9Now
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Credits:
Host Marie Claire Editor Georgie McCourt
Supervising Producer Helen Smith
Edited By Helen Smith
Head of Vodcasting Rachel Fountain
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