Elma has now revealed that she wasn’t exactly honest with her fellow contestants, knocking three years off her actual age when she spoke to them.
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“I lied about my age on Love Island. I tell everyone I’m 23, it’s a real issue,” she revealed, during an interview on the Love Island Morning After podcast.
“I’m 26 but now everyone knows it because [the show] said they couldn’t lie for me.”
Shortly after making her arrival in the Love Island villa, Elma paired up with Anton Danyluk, though when the public were asked to vote for the couples with the most chemistry, they were in the bottom two, alongside Lucie Donlan and Joe Garratt.
In one of the series’ first twists, one person from each of these pairs was then shown the door, with Elma leaving the villa alongside Joe.
Sticking up for himself after he left the villa, Joe maintained: “I didn’t manipulate or abuse [Lucie]... I always had Lucie’s best interests at heart and I promise you I would do everything and anything to help her because she had a hard time in there and didn’t get on with the girls.
“I was trying to help her and make her experience as amazing as possible. I thought I did right.”
Love Island continues tonight at 9pm on ITV2.
Celebrities Who've Lied About Their Age
James Blunt(01 of12)
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James was caught out after shaving two years off his age. Whoops! (credit:Britta Pedersen/DPA)
Sandra Bullock(02 of12)
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America's sweetheart lied about her age to get a movie role -- for someone older. In 1992, she told Barbara Walters: "I lied two years ago to get this part in Love Potion #9. They said, 'We want an older scientist.' I go there and I say I'm 29. After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times. I always said I would never lie, but one time, when I didn't it worked against me. So I figure you just keep them guessing." (credit:Getty)
Eminem(03 of12)
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The rapper lied about his age while on-air with Howard Stern in 1999, saying he was 24 when he was actually 26. (You can watch the video here). (credit:Getty)
Nadine Coyle(04 of12)
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Nadine won a place in a girlband on the Irish series of 'Popstars', however she was ditched when producers found out that she'd lied, pretending to be 18 years old when she was actually 16. (credit:Jason LaVeris via Getty Images)
Whoopi Goldberg(05 of12)
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Whoopi is one of a (very small...) group of celebs who actually ADDED years to her age. It's thought that she added five years to her real age, as casting directors thought she was too young to be in showbiz. (credit:Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Nicki Minaj(06 of12)
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Talk about a fail: Nicki Minaj was caught red-handed in a lie when a police report the "Super Bass" rapper filed showed her birth date as December 9, 1982 - not 1984, as she had previously claimed. (credit:Getty)
Agyness Deyn(07 of12)
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Surprise! This British hipster model was actually a good six years older than what she had been telling everyone for years. "When I decided I would really do modelling I was like 18, and I think at the time that was quite old for a new face, so we knocked off a few years," she admitted to The Guardian in 2012. "I'm 29, I feel like that's the age when you start to think about life. What is this all about? Who am I?" (credit:Getty)
Katie Reford(08 of12)
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Katie was cast as 'Coronation Street' character Bethany Platt, who is 14 years, after stating that she was 19 in the auditions. After bosses announced the casting, eagle-eyed members of the public noticed that Katie's date of birth, as displayed on her online CV, made her 25.The decision was then made to recast the role.
Nicole Scherzinger(09 of12)
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In 2008, the Pussycat Doll singer listed her age on the group's website as 28. Too bad she was actually 30 years old at the time, something to which she admitted to Blender magazine. "I should say I'm 27," she quipped. (credit:Getty)
Jamie Lomas(10 of12)
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In February 2014, it was revealed that Jamie was actually 38, while a number of websites listed him as being 33. He insisted that he'd never actively encouraged the lies though, telling The Sun: "I have never lied about my age. My correct age has been printed many times. "If I was to lie, I’d age up so at least people would say I look younger than I actually am.” (credit:Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)
Paloma Faith (11 of12)
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Paloma lied about her age when she first started out in the music industry. "When I was asked what my age was in that first meeting, I blurted out 23, when I was actually 27,” she admitted in 2014.“I didn’t plan on doing it beforehand and it wasn’t a calculated thing." (credit:Joel Ryan/Invision/AP/Invision/AP)
Anastacia (12 of12)
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The singer revealed that she was turning 40 in 2008, declaring that she was no longer going to tell fibs about her date of birth. (credit:Dan Steinberg/Invision/AP)