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Connie Rusk

Love Island's Luca Bish cheekily calls out Michael Owen after he is left off family snap

He jetted off on holiday with the Owen family after his stint in the Love Island villa.

And Luca Bish appeared confident in his approach at bonding with girlfriend Gemma's famous footballer father Michael Owen, jokingly calling him out for being left off a family snap.

The Love Island star commented on Michael's post which showed the football legend posing with his wife Louise, and children Jessica, 12, Emily, 14, and James, 16.

Michael had captioned the shot: "Family -1" in reference to Gemma, 19, being absent from the snap.

Luca was quick to also mark himself as part of the family, writing in the comment section: " -2."

Luca Bish, 23, couldn't resist taking a cheeky dig at Michael Owen (Instagram)
Luca jetted off on holiday with his girlfriend Gemma and her family (Instagram/ @lucabish)

Gemma, meanwhile, typed: "I was there for 4 days and you wait til I leave to get a family picture" (sic).

And Love Island fans loved Luca's cheeky jibe, with one writing: "@lucabish ain’t family till @gemowen_1 has a ring on it!".

Another added: "if only we all had your confidence in life", while a third chimed: "Calm down. You're not even her boyfriend".

Luca has already seemingly already impressed Gemma's mum Louise - revealing all about the seal of approval from Michael's childhood sweetheart in a recent Instagram Live with Gemma's ex-boyfriend Jacques.

Luca has already seemingly already impressed Gemma's mum Louise (gemowen_1/Instagram)

When quizzed by his rugby player pal, who recently apologised following bullying claims, he joked: "Yeah mate, it's coming. I'm just waiting on written consent from her mum aren't I?"

Luca added: "Louise is lovely."

Despite finishing runners-up on the ITV2 show earlier this month, Luca and Gemma are still yet to make things official and refer to each other as boyfriend and girlfriend respectively.

Taking to his Instagram Stories on Thursday night, the reality TV star shared a clip of himself and Gemma enjoying a romantic stroll together as they headed out for night out together in Portugal.

Luca and Gemma were runners up in the 2022 final (Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

Dressed in a white T-shirt, dark jacket and Ray Ban sunglasses, Luca walked ahead of his possible-future girlfriend - who looked stunning in dark shades and a figure-hugging brown midi dress.

"Mission 'ask Gem to be my girlfriend' is in motion," the Brighton boy told his Instagram followers in the caption to the snippet.

In the brief video clip, Luca can be heard saying: "We're going for an evening stroll....with me girlfriend...PSYCH!"

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