How did Chris Williamson go from the villa, to a US-based podcast with tens of millions of downloads?
The show was called Love Island, but to Chris Williamson, it felt like the World Cup final.
Williamson, now 34, is from Stockton-on-Tees, a town near Middlesbrough in the north-east of England. He was an only child and didn't fit in at school. He excelled at cricket, bowling leg spin in the Durham Academy until he was 17, but the loneliness of school left a mark. "Life for me was go to the gym, fill nightclubs, go to the gym, fill nightclubs," says Williamson. "And uni just got in the way."
In 2012, seeking to increase his "clout" - being well-known is useful for a club promoter - he went on the ITV dating show Take Me Out . Three years later, the show's casting producer told him about a new show: 23 young, attractive contestants in a villa, across six weeks, with viewers hooked on who would hook up.
Two of his friends - Jonny and Yusef of Propane Fitness - invited him onto their podcast. "I'd been on Love Island, they were looking for clicks," he jokes. "So we did this episode in the Voodoo Events office. The sound quality was terrible, but I really enjoyed it."
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