EXCLUSIVE: Love Island Australia’s Charlie Taylor has been stuck in Bali for FIVE MONTHS – and can’t get a flight home due to travel restrictions
Charlie Taylor was the first person to be kicked out of the villa on the first season of Love Island Australia in 2018.
And in a bizarre twist of fate, the reality star is now stuck in paradise and can’t leave.
The Sydneysider has been stuck in Bali, Indonesia, for the past five months due to international travel restrictions.
Tough times: Former Love Island star Charlie Taylor, 25, has revealed has been STUCK living in Bali, Indonesia for FIVE MONTHS and can’t get a flight back home
He had delayed an earlier flight home because he wanted to escape the virus, but found himself stranded when he later attempted to return in March.
‘I was supposed to go back home in March, but the day my flight was due to leave, it was announced Australia was going into indefinite lockdown,’ he said.
The influencer and former rugby player said the situation was ‘hard’ but he was lucky to have a girlfriend keeping him company in Bali.
Tough decision: Speaking to Daily Mail Australia on Thursday, Charlie, said he first delayed his trip in hopes of waiting out the virus – but is now there are no outgoing flights to Sydney
‘I have been seeing someone who is currently in Bali,’ he said.
‘I’m now enjoying life starting to enjoy life here with an amazing girl and couldn’t think of anywhere else to be during this situation.’
After being dumped from Love Island, Charlie told Nova’s Fitzy & Wippa that the villa’s female occupants only wanted to date ‘d**kheads’.
Mystery girl: But it turns out it’s not all that bad for the former Rugby Sevens star who appears to have struck up a romance with a brunette also on holidays. ‘I’m now enjoying life starting to enjoy life here with an amazing girl and couldn’t think of anywhere else to be,’ he gushed
When asked by host Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald whether he was disappointed about the lineup of women, Charlie confessed: ‘A little bit.’
He added: ‘That was the major reason why I wasn’t sort of attracted [to] or had any connection with any of the girls.’
The first season of Love Island Australia is currently being broadcast on ITV2 after the British series was suspended due to coronavirus.
Remember this? Charlie was paired up with Natasha Webster on Love Island Australia in 2018 before he was the first contestant to be booted out of the villa