Love Island Australia is airing with a whole new cast and plot twists, we are ready for the drama! But what do you know about the Love Island Australia host Sophie Monk?
She’s basically Australia’s reality TV sweetheart but she is much more than that!
But what do you know about the host of Love Island Australia, Sophie Monk?
Who is Sophie Monk?
Sophie has been a staple in Australian reality TV since 1999. First appearing on our screens on the reality show Popstars in the girlband, Bardot.
Following the breakup of Bardot in 2001, Sophie went on to have a solo career releasing her album Calendar Girl in 2003 with the lead single, Inside Outside.
Sophie added acting to her repertoire and subsequently moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting and lived there for a decade before moving back to Australia in 2016.
She famously won all of our hearts in 2017 during Hard Chat on ABC, where host Tom Gleeson grilled her in a series of ‘tough questions’ but she ended up making him crack!
It also helped her get her cast on The Bachelorette in 2017.
Watch that interview below.
Sophie is a reality TV darling
As you already know, Sophie began her career in reality TV on Popstars but she’s been on several other popular reality TV shows.
During her time in the US, she appeared on The Choice, a dating show similar to The Voice, where celebrity judges have their backs turned to singles hoping to score a date with a famous judge.
Back Down Under, Sophie won The Celebrity Apprentice Australia in 2015. Then a few years later she was named The Bachelorette for 2017, she ended up choosing Stu Laundy as her partner, but they broke up months after the show aired.
She has also been the host of the reboot of Beauty and the Geek Australia in 2001.
Sophie has also made appearances as a contestant on The Masked Singer Australia and Lego Masters.
Sophie on Love Island Australia
Sophie was announced as the host for Love Island Australia back in 2018 and has been the host since.
This year however, rumours began swirling that she wouldn’t be back for the 2024 season.
Instead of Sophie, reports from The Daily Mail said reality TV star and influencer Skye Wheatley would be the new host.
Skye herself took to Instagram to shut down those rumours rather quickly. A fan asked Skye on Instagram Stories, “Were you supposed to be the host of Love Island?” And she responded, “No, it was click bait!!”
Is Sophie single?
No she isn’t! She is happily married to Joshua Gross who she met on a business class flight in 2018. Joshua works in neurosurgical robotics and they got secretly married in 2022.
Speaking to Who Magazine, she said, “He’s just so intelligent and he has a great sense of humour. He’s also not fazed by what I do for work and all the attention that comes with it.” So cute!
He asked her to marry him on Christmas Day in 2020 with a diamond ring he designed himself. We love, love!
Love Island Australia 2024 will air on 9Now.
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