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Love Island fans claim Tasha Ghouri is 'spitting image' of presenter Laura Whitmore

Numerous Love Island fans took to social media on Tuesday claiming 2022 contestant Tasha Ghouri bears a striking resemblance to presenter Laura Whitmore.

The 23-year old headed into the new Majorcan villa on Monday night alongside fellow newbies Gemma Owen, Amber Beckford, Indiyah Polack and Paige Thorne.

And viewers of the hit ITV2 dating show quickly took to social media to point out the likeness after just one episode of the new series.

One Twitter user wrote: "Laura Whitmore, is that you infiltrating as Tasha?"

Another commented: "I can't be the only one that thinks Tasha looks like a younger Laura Whitmore."

Social media was flooded with posts comparing Tasha to Laura Whitmore (Love Island)

A third added: "Is it just me or does Tasha look a bit like Laura Whitmore?"

A fourth said: "I'm telling ya, Tasha to me is the exact spitting image of Laura Whitmore."

In contrast to previous years, viewers were able to vote for the first couples, which saw Tasha paired with 27-year old Andrew Le Page.

Tasha, the first deaf contestant in the show's history, appeared to like what she saw, but soon revealed that she also had her eye on Luca Bish, 23.

Addressing the cameras, she said: "Andrew is giving me good vibes and good energy. But Luca seems very sweet."

The feeling was seemingly mutual, meanwhile, with Luca commenting in the Beach Hut: "I think there could be something there."

After spending their first night in the villa the girls debriefed with Tasha admitting she enjoyed the night with Andrew.

"I woke up and he was awake as well. He had a little smile and then he put his arm around me and we started cuddling," she said.

"It felt so nice. I was like a Cheshire cat, I needed to stop grinning!"

Tasha gets to know Luca (Love Island)

Tasha's friends and family have taken over her Instagram page whilst she's in the villa, meanwhile, with one member of her team sharing a post about her disability and what it means to her.

The post's caption read: "Her superpower - Tasha wanted to give you all a little snippet of her superpower and her story. Visibility has always been her driving force."

The post then began: "What is my superpower?" before continuing: "I have sensory loss which means the small hairs in the cochlear were missing and damaged when I was born. We still don't know why."

It added: "Did I learn sign language/BSL? Yes I did, in fact the whole family did when I was young. As I got older I became less reliant on it because of the cochlear implant and learning to lip read."

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