
Tanya Manhenga of Love Island has spoken out about her job goals, emphasising how determined she is to finish her degree once she leaves the villa.
The 2023 series of the ITV reality show will air in just a few days, with a fresh new cast of enthusiastic singletons hoping for love, lust, and the vacation of their lives.
Tanya, 22, from Manchester, is one of them. She is pursuing a degree in biological science.
Tanya explained that her interest for her degree came as a surprise because she ‘did it pretty last minute’ before the start date of Winter Love Island.
‘It’s absolutely something I’m going to get back to when I leave Love Island,’ she says, looking forward to what life will be like after her time in the villa in South Africa ends. ‘I love it.’
Tanya’s training prompted her to pursue a career in embryology so that she might assist people who are attempting to conceive through IVF (in vitro fertilisation).
‘If Love Island wasn’t there, or even after, I would’ve continued to finish my degree and then I would have done embryology, which is working with IVF – so an embryologist, working with IVF, helping people have babies and stuff,’ she stated.
‘That was the only job that I really wanted because it’s the most rewarding to me. I want to wake up and do something where I’m like, this is helping. That’s definitely what I would go to.’
Tanya is nearly completed with her undergraduate studies… but is only a term away from finishing it after deferring it to allow her to finish it later.
So, how did her mother feel about her putting her degree on wait in order to find love abroad?
‘My mum was so happy that I was at the end of the degree, because she would have hated it if I’d just left it in the middle,’ Tanya admitted.
‘So she was a bit like, “Are you sure?” and then after she realised I’d done most of my degree, she was literally like go for it, this seems like something you would do. She was so supportive.’
Tanya revealed that she falls in love easily, but holds her ‘cards close to her breast’ with dream dinner party attendees such as Stormzy, Anthony Joshua, and Channing Tatum.
Any people who wish to get close to her should be aware of her ‘icks,’ which include not wearing socks in the house.
‘Guys that don’t wear socks in the house. Why are your feet flapping all around the house? Guys have huge feet too, yuck,’ Tanya said when opening up about her turn-offs.
‘Also, guys in the bathtub with no bubbles, such an ick, no.’
Love Island returns on Monday at 9pm on ITV1.