Overview

• Alex Bowen joked that he would rather his future children appear on ITV’s quiz show The Chase than on the ITV2 dating series Love Island.
• He and Olivia Bowen are expecting a daughter this summer after welcoming their son Abel in 2022.
• Bowen revealed that producers recruited him for Love Island’s 2016 series while he was scaffolding and that he entered the villa without ever having watched the show.
• The couple married in 2018 in a TLC-filmed special titled Olivia and Alex: Happily Ever After.
• He acknowledged that forbidding his children from reality TV would make him a hypocrite, reflecting the complex legacy of his own rise to fame.