Hollyoaks star signs up for Love Island USA – six years after far-right storyline on Channel 4 soap
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A HOLLYOAKS star has signed up for Love Island USA - six years after far-right storyline on the Channel 4 soap.
Former soap star Charlie Georgio, 27, has taken his career in a completely different direction and has become an Islander.
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This Love Island USA hunk used to be in Hollyoaks
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Charlie Georgio appeared on the Channel 4 soap in 2019
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Charlie arrived on Love Island USA as a bombshell
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Birmingham native Charlie first shot to fame back in 2019 on Channel 4's Hollyoaks.
On the soap he played Jed, a police informant in a far right extremist group who was set up on a date with Ste Hay.
Charlie was on the soap for six episodes, before his Hollyoaks stint came to an end.
BECOMING AN ISLANDER
But now it's been revealed he is part of the cast of Love Island USA, which is currently being filmed in Fiji.
The hunk in trunks, who is also a model and singer, joined the show as a bombshell on the second episode of the new series, which is airing in America.
As he was seen walking into the villa, the chiselled star said: "I'm tall, tanned, girls usually say I've got nice lips, and they like kissing them.
"You might thing that Love Island started already, but now that I'm here, it's only just begun,"
Love Island USA also isn't Charlie's first stint in reality TV.
He also appeared on Channel 4's Tempting Fortune in 2023.
WORKING IN A CHIPPIE
Away from the bright lights of America and the Love Island USA villa, Charlie hails from Solihull where his family own a chippie.
Inside Love Island USA's villa featuring a speakeasy, sauna and hideaway stocked with condoms and handcuffs-
In fact, when his acting worked up dried up during the pandemic he pitched in and worked there.
Working in the chip shop inspired him to write and release a song in 2021 called Lights, which was filmed in the family's takeaway called Giorgio's,
Charlie told BirminghamLive at the time: "Back in 2019 I was doing a lot of modelling and I was doing Hollyoaks so it was a really busy time.
"But then 2020 came and things got quiet, so I started picking up more shifts at the chip shop to stack up a bit of cash.
"The shop is quite well-known around the area. It's been in the family for 30 years.
"The song is just a message to people in a similar situation to stick with it."
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