Love Island: PE teacher Hugo Hammond is show’s first disabled contestant

Islander has played national cricket for England’s physical disability team

Wednesday 23 June 2021 14:07 BST

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Love Island 2021 will feature the show’s first ever islander with a disability.

The ITV2 dating show returns next Monday (28 June), with a new batch of contestants heading to the Mallorcan villa in hope of coupling up and finding love.

The islanders are being revealed today (21 June), with Hugo Hammond, a secondary school PE teacher from Hampshire, among them. You can read more about the contestants as they’re announced here.

As well as working in education – something he says he “absolutely love” – Hammond has played cricket for England PD, the national physical disability team.

The 24-year-old has clubfoot, a condition in which one or both ankles are turned inwards from birth.