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Who is Sharon Gaffka? Love Island 2021 star's age, job and hometown revealed
6 July 2021, 20:50
Love Island: Civil servant Sharon to bring beauty and brains to the villa
This week on Love Island sees Sharon and Hugo are at the centre of an upset. Get up close and personal with the civil servant from Oxford and find out her age, occupation, Instagram and more.
Love Island 2021 is finally gathering steam and now things are about to get hotter as Sharon Gaffka and Hugo Hammond are in the centre of the show's first big upset this year.
As we watch to find out just what Hugo has said, we answer the question: Who is Sharon Gaffka? Find out more about the Love Island contestant, including her age, occupation, her Instagram handle and more.
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Who is Sharon Gaffka?
Sharon is a civil servant from Oxford. At the moment she works as an Operations Lead for the Department of Transport and works on EU exit policy. She is also a former beauty queen and was Miss International UK in 2018.
Talking about her job, she said: "I’ve been a civil servant since I was 18. I’ve worked in lots of different departments.“I’ve been doing Brexit policy for the last year, I did a stint during the coronavirus pandemic in the Department of Health so I was helping deliver testing kits and managing the operations.“It’s been an intense year!"
How old is Love Island's Sharon Gaffka?
Sharon is 25 years old.
What is Sharon Gaffka's Instagram?
You can find Sharon at @sharongaffka on Instagram, where it looks like her friend Zara is holding the fort while she's in the villa.
What is she looking for in a man?
Sharon said in a teaser clip for the show, "My type is tall, dark and is willing to put me in line if i'm too sassy or too straightforward".
However, she does tend to go from one extreme to another when it comes to men, revealing: "I have this thing where if something doesn’t work out with one person, I’ll try and go for the other extreme to see if that works out".
She added: "I’m quite an intellectual person so I want someone who can kind of match that."
How does she describe herself?
Sharon considers herself to be a "feminist and a role model" think thinks she will be breaking some stereotypes by appearing on the show.
She told press during the launch event: "I've come from a professional working career and I describe myself as a feminist and a role model, especially when working with Young Women's Trust, so I think that I'm probably going to break that stereotype and that's something that I'm really happy and proud to be a part of."
Love Island continues tomorrow at 9pm on ITV2 and ITV Hub. Episodes are available the following morning on BritBox
Tension in the Love Island villa between Hugo and Sharon set to rise in dramatic first look
