Who is Faye Winter? Meet the Love Island 2021 contestant and lettings manager with “terrible flirting skills”

Will Faye be part of the winning couple for 2021?

By Joe Julians

Published: Sunday, 01 August 2021 at 12:00 am

It’s been over a month since Faye Winter made her Love Island debut and what a journey it’s been so far for the lettings manager.

Over the last five weeks, we’ve seen Faye couple up with four boys, the latest of which being Sam Jackson who she grew closer to while Teddy Soares was away in Casa Amor.

While Faye stayed loyal to Teddy for the first few days of the ‘lads holiday’, it was the Casa Amor postcard in which Teddy was pictured kissing Clarisse Juliette that swayed her towards Sam.

After Teddy returned to the villa by himself with Faye’s bear in his hands, we watched a heart-breaking moment between the former couple where Teddy told Faye: “You’re not the only one who let their guard down.” Someone grab the tissues.

Could Teddy and Faye work out their Casa Amor misunderstandings, or will Faye stick with new boy Sam?

Here’s everything you need to know about the Devon-based 26-year-old, who is one of the Love Island 2021 contestants.

Faye Winter – Key facts

Age: 26

Job: Lettings manager

From: Devon

Instagram: @faye__winter

Coupled up with: Sam Jackson

How old is Faye Winter?

Faye is 26-year-old. She recently celebrated her birthday. In fact, she turned 26 while quarantining for Love Island, with her Instagram account announcing she was taking part in this year’s series on her birthday.

Why does Faye want to take part in Love Island?

Boredom may have played a part in her decision to join the show as lockdown has made her want to put herself out there and try new things.

“In the last year, we haven’t been able to experience anything. I’m open to anything. The opportunity came up so why wouldn’t I? I’d love to meet somebody, what better way to meet somebody than in the sun – amazing.”

As for her levels of excitement, she describes the upcoming experience as “like going on your first date but times 50” and while she is excited, “there is that little niggly feeling in my tummy of nerves. I’s an unknown world to me, but I’m mainly excited for sure.”

What does Faye do for work?

“I’m a lettings manager and I’ve got an amazing team. I go out and do valuations, win business for the company and I’ll do the odd viewing and find tenants. My main role is the sales side of things. I absolutely love it! I’ve actually only taken a sabbatical from work because, in my ideal world, I’d love to go back to work.

“I try to make it as Selling Sunset as possible. I’m definitely there in the mini dresses, boobs out, bum out, turning up and you can see the wives say to their husband, ‘You’re staying outside’. It’s so fun.”

She also says that she is on a sabbatical from work and that her bosses are “super supportive” of her joining the show and have left the door open for her to return at some point down the line. And if she were to go back to her old life straight after, she would be just as happy with that as anything else that could happen for her.

What is Faye looking for in a partner?

Anyone who hopes to impress Faye in the show better be sure they have practised their banter skills as it sounds like they will need to be good at it.

“Looks-wise they have to be like 6ft. But then my last relationship that I was in for five years he was like 5ft 7. Someone that will put me in my place. Someone that makes me laugh. But also someone that takes my banter. I’m like a 5-year-old in a playground, if I like you, I will make a mockery of you and laugh and joke. That is my really terrible flirting skills. I need someone who can take that.”

“I’m not going to commit to anything as it could be used against me,” she said when asked if there was anything she would not do in the villa. That being said, she is cautious of any ramifications it could have with her family if she did get up to anything a bit too risqué.  “I’m very aware that me and my sister are in [our parents] will and I do still want to have a 50/50 share!”

But what if her perfect partner is coupled up with someone else, would she step on another girls toes to get her man? “Everyone needs to remember that we are going on Love Island. We do need to find that man”. That sounds like a yes to us!

As far as celebrity crushes go, she says she would “eat both” of Zac Efron and Anthony Joshua, but she would like to meet them both first so that she can see who has the better personality.

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