Love Island’s Shannen Reilly McGrath parades her midriff as she steps out in Manchester

She famously appeared on the 2017 series of Love Island, but lasted only a matter of days. 

And, Shannen Reilly McGrath, 26, paraded her midriff in a baby blue crop top and coordinating mini skirt as she stepped out in Manchester, on Sunday.

The Irish model and dental nurse strolled along in the sunshine wearing a pair of denim blue Louis Vuitton high-tops.

The pretty blonde, who appeared on the reality TV show in 2017, was spotted wearing a baby blue figure-hugging top and matching mini skirt. 

Shannen opted for a heavy make-up look complete with silvery highlighter on her cheekbones, and shielded her eyes with a classic pair of shades. 

The reality star carried her purse on phone in her hand, and styled her long blonde locks sleek and straight, with long red nail extensions completing her look. 

Shannen’s Love Island stint took place in Casa Amor – the smaller villa the male contestants stayed in for a few days while the female contestants remained in the main house.

Although she didn’t manage to find love on the show, she did share a brief kiss with Gabby Allen’s then-boyfriend, Marcel Somerville, when they locked lips as part of a challenge.

Shannen’s outing comes after ITV axed the winter series of Love Island, with the show returning to screens in summer 2021.

The summer 2020 series was cancelled last month due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and last week bosses at the channel announced that the next series of the ITV2 dating show won’t be for another year. 

‘Love Island UK will return bigger and better than ever with an extended run in summer 2021,’ ITV announced in a statement to MailOnline. 

The axing of both the summer 2020 series and a winter series in early 2021 is in large part down to the coronavirus pandemic, with restrictions on travel and filming causing huge issues for the show.

Pre-production on the winter 2021 series was schedulled to take place in the coming weeks, but with so many quarantine and social distancing measures still in place, it’s thought it wouldn’t be possible to fly cast and crew to location and work safely.  

Instead producers are keen to focus on one bumper season of the show next summer, which will likely return to Mallorca, after the winter 2020 series took place in South Africa. 

The first ever winter series of the show gave ITV2 its best ever January and February ratings with an average 3.1m viewers.  

It was announced last month that there will be no Love Island this summer, but the channel is instead repeating the first series (2018) of Love Island Australia from Monday 15 June at 9pm.

ITV bosses pulled the plug on the summer series after casting had already begun, revealing it was a logistical impossibility to safeguard ‘the wellbeing of everyone involved’.