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  1. “I don't know, maybe not. Maybe if we ever revisit this, then I've got more followers and more money and a better house or whatever I'll still be saying. It's not enough. I probably will be. But maybe I need that. Maybe that's like the recipe to making me the way I am and making me different to the other Love Islanders and the other influences. Maybe it is because I'm hungry and I always want more. So maybe I don't need to get rid of that. Maybe I'll just stick with that mindset because it works clearly.”

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  2. “Oh, it's a really, really good question. I want to see I'm going to say no because then it just contradicts everything I've said in this podcast if I say yes. But no, I would say no because If Fran or someone told me today that this was the last day of me working, and I'll go back to Manchester now and I sit in my house and have babies and get married and I won't work another day, I'd cry myself to sleep and I would not be happy because I'm nowhere, as I said, I'm nowhere near done. This is just the start. So no, like, I'm not, I am enough. Me, I am enough, but the work I've done isn't enough yet. I've got so much more to do.”

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  3. “Right. I don't need to just always go for the biggest thing. Like, work towards these things, have things to look forward to because I'm only 22. Like I'm so young and I've got so much to work on and look forward to. And I don't want to rush things. And I would tell my younger self, slow down, slow down on the filler, slow down on moving to Manchester, maybe when you couldn't afford it. Slow down on worrying about trying to get Instagram followers. And it's just, everything will come, you know, when it's meant to.”

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  4. “A good question. I think Repeating myself with what I've said before in the past, I do wish I could tell her to slow down a little bit with rushing things. And even now it's something that I'm trying to work on 22. I don't want to get to 25 and not have anything to look forward to when I'm 30 because I've done everything already, have the best car I can drive and have the best house. I want to slow things down on it and I want to work on enjoying where I'm at because it's not healthy to always always want more because you've got to be grateful for where you're at and the things you've achieved. But fans are a really good person for that because she grounds me like it's a really superficial example, but I'll use it anyway. I passed my driving test a few months ago and the only car I wanted was a G-Wagon. I was like, I'm getting a G-Wagon fran. I was like, no, you're not. I was like, why not? She was like, yeah, you can get a G-Wagon, but what have you got forward? What have you got to look forward to when you hit 25? She was like, get something a little bit, you know, underneath that. And then you can look forward to it when it comes. And I was like, no, no, but then I thought, actually.”

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  5. “Minute I get out of the cash point, it's gone. Someone on the street, which I like doing, I enjoy doing that. Know it's a really hard question”

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  6. “I mean, there's so many charities and so many things that come to mind. It's almost like I can't even think of one. But one thing I didn't speak about in this podcast is that I am a massive, I always give money to homeless people, always. I cannot keep cash in my wallet because I will literally just dish them out like fun coupons. When I see anybody on the street, I give my money away instantly because I cannot fathom how anybody can end up in that situation of not having a home. It literally breaks my heart. So I'd probably just find someone on the street and give it all to them. Yeah, I want to see Wood or give it to a homeless organization or something like that because it is a hard question, but. That's something that I feel really passionate about And as I said, I just have to stop putting cash in my wallet because I just.”

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  7. “May I ask? Because there's a lot of money. But yeah, there's loads of things that you don't realize. Because I looked at this house and I really, really liked it. Fran was like, yeah, you know the stamp duty on that's going to be X hundred thousand. I was like, what? Then I had a builder come around and look at all the work that I want doing to him. And he was like, yeah, so that's going to be about 900,000 just for the work you want doing. And I was like, this is just stupid. I was like, how, but this is the thing. I'm in a really financially blessed situation. So how is any normal 22-year-old on a normal income ever going to get on the property ladder I don't understand that. Fascinating to me. How is anybody ever going to get in the property ladder with the way it's going? It's wild, isn't it?”

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  8. “Is a new chapter. I know it sounds so cringey, but it is. Every day is so different. Well, yeah, my next, my main goal has been my main goal for the last two years. I'm just desperate to own a house. I still don't own a house yet. But it's not because I can't or I don't want to. It's because I've not found the right house yet. And I'm so particular and picky with what house I want. It's come close a few times to like I've got my mortgage in principle and it's been all really exciting and then it's no but yeah that's my next goal is is getting the property ladder and maybe building a house we don't know it's there's loads of exciting things with that and I'm still trying to learn again mortgages and all that interesting stuff is stamp duty what the hell is that Why on earth does that exist?”

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  9. “Know wow, we don't know yet, but it's just interesting to think about the different types of brands that I can work with. You know, I'm working more on like the High Street budget right now. And then, you know, in years to come, who's to say, well, that's going to, you know, you just don't know. And I think with my following growing so rapidly, where is it going to end up? We just don't know. But that's what's so exciting about it. Like it's just every day.”

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  10. “I guess so, but there is still, there are still goals that are a little bit like for everybody, there's things that are a little bit out of reach. And I like reaching for those things because working with like really, really high-end fashion brands, you know, we've not tapped into that yet because.”

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  11. “But obviously, my socials, I'm growing 25,000 a day on average. Wow. It's not stopping. And it's strange to me. When I came out the show, I never anticipated the growth just, it just doesn't stop. And I could even disappear for a few weeks and it doesn't stop. And I don't know why. I think it's just people, they do find me so relatable. I'm excited to see with what happens as I grow where is it going to stop? Know, and every million I hit, I'm like, well, I want next million now. So now I'm working towards seven million, even though when I said I hit 6 million, that would be enough. I was like, six million, wow, that'll be amazing. And now I'm like, nah, seven million is next. That'll be enough. And then it won't be. Then I'll be working towards 10.”

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  12. “Of Jacqueline Gold and the Patricia Bites that sit here, and they've got a few years on me and they've learned all this stuff, and they do come across these strong, powerful businesswomen. And I aspire to be like that. And I'm heading there. And I'd love to revisit this in a few years when I'm there and can use all those big words like net gross profit. I don't know how to use”

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  13. “Not sure if that's true. Well, in all aspects of my life, I'm working on different things, pretty little thing in me. It's, as I said, 24-7, it's a constant thing and we're working on London Fashion Week is next. And that, I'm not going to say too much because I do really want to keep it maniac secret, but it's going to be huge. Like the biggest thing maybe PRT is maybe ever done. So that's going to be huge. We're working on that. Then obviously I've got filters by Molly May, which is my O fake hand business, which is growing rapidly. And when I spoke about in this podcast a lot about learning the business side of things, that's what I'm relating it to as my business. When I go into these meetings with these people, you know, like wholesalers that want to take on the product and sell it on their website. And it's just interesting to learn. And I'm just looking forward to learning more. And as I said, I'm not shy to sit here and say that I've got so much more to learn. I'm not like the...”

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  14. “I never pictured it like that. I guess you do work in a relationship. It is like a bit of a full time job that never ends. It just comes naturally. I think when you're with the right person, it does just all fall into place. And I don't know, it's weird with him. Like we know that we're going to be together forever and we're just so excited for the future holds for us. All we ever talk about is kids and like marriage. And I'm so excited. Like I'm doing all these amazing things, but I also have that to look forward to. And I don't see our relationship as a job like your other person said. I just see it as a part of my life and it's just there. And I'm so blessed that it just works so well. We never have any problems. We're really lucky. Obviously, we're not perfect. I'm not going to sit there and say we don't argue like cat and dog. We definitely do. He drives me crazy. And I do feel like I'm a bit of his manager sometimes. The way Fran is for me, I am for him. It's like passed down. Fran does it for me. I do it for him. He just...”

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  15. “We don't see each other for weeks on end at the moment, like weeks on end, and we've become really good at the long distance thing. I don't know, like, I think we're just one thing that I find so key in our relationship and it's the most important thing I think in any relationship is trust. We have that complete and utter trust in one another. And I think in a relationship, that is literally all you need to survive. If you've got that trust, everything else just falls into place because he can literally go away for weeks on end and there's not a doubt in my mind that if he was to be around a load of girls, I could sleep peacefully at night knowing that he's just for me and I'm for him and that's that. When you've got that, I just think, I don't know why I'm giving a relationship advice here, but I do think like that is the key.”

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  16. “Having him to lean on through all these, you know, ups and definitely lows he's been there for me has been so amazing because it would have been lonely doing it alone. I think like, you know, after me and fan of spoken all day, then going back to that apartment alone when you're living this new world and navigating all these new things, it would have been a bit sad to not experience it with someone. So, we're really blessed to have had each other through this whole thing.”

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  17. “Yeah, I mean, I think, as I mentioned briefly before, because I went on the show, so not expecting to find love and I just went on for a bit of a, we'll just see what happens, potentially come out with a million followers. We'll see. I came out, the only person having fallen in love, me and Tommy were the only couple that year that are still together. And that were really together in the show. Every other couple broke up a couple of weeks after. We were the only people that actually found each other properly. And it's been like nearly three years now. And it's just been a whirlwind. And I think what's been so incredible is that both our lives have changed together at the same time and we've grown together and experienced it all with one another. And I think”

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  18. “Everything I've done in the last two years is down to me and down to Fran, it's us two together. Like we have done this. And my parents, yeah, they raised me and they made me into a polite and nice person. But they're not responsible. Do you get what I'm saying? Like they're not, I don't know how you feel about that, but you probably don't feel like your parents are the reason that you've been so successful. Or maybe you do. I don't know.”

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  19. “In hindsight, Where did you feed her? I don't know, but I don't think that. I think obviously you're a product of your environment and how you grow up and how you're raised is a huge part of who you become. But at the same time, I wouldn't know disrespect to my parents. They're incredible. They've done made me do why done now. Does that make sense?”

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  20. “I think it is crazy when they see me doing my pretty little thing adverts on TV, like how does that ever feel normal? And they're just really, really proud. They're just, my parents are divorced now. So it's dealing with my dad and dealing with my mum is like two separate, completely different things, but they're both so proud of me. And it's just, I don't think anyone could really have expected this.”

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  21. “Yeah, she was the woman on YouTube, and I aspired to just be just like her. She's just everything I wanted to be. She was so successful, so business-minded, but also so relatable and so hilarious. And I loved everything that she was about. And then she asked me to do a video with her after love. I know this is just happening. And then you try and act cool and you try and act like... This is just the normal, but it's not. It's not. And it's sometimes okay to sit there and be like, oh God, I cannot believe this is happening. Like even today, like when Fran was talking to me about doing this with you and it's just like these things just, I don't know, they don't ever really feel real.”

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  22. “I'm not the same as them, but then you sort of realize, oh, maybe I am, you know, like the likes of Patricia Bright and Jacqueline Gold. You look up to people like that and then suddenly you're being asked to do the same things as them. And it's like... How has that happened? Like I don't know if it will ever feel real, things like that. Patricia Bright is especially someone I've always looked up to, and I actually film, I've been working with Patricia a few times now. And that was really huge for me because she was like my woman. She was like my goals”

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  23. “hasn't come overnight. As I said, I am so young and it's such a quick turnaround. Like two years ago, I was in Manchester and living by myself, going to the gym, taking a few pictures, going to Wagon Mumas on a weekend. And now I'm in these huge meetings with huge people. About really important subjects, and it's like, God, it's hard sometimes, but I like it. It's interesting. It's different every day in my life is so different. And it's a bit of a challenge each day. It's like, even today, like this podcast, I felt honored that you even asked me to do it because it's like I'd listened to the people that you'd done them with. And you sort of sometimes think like...”

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  24. “It's hard. I mean, it's confusing and it's hard. It's amazing, obviously. But as I said, I am learning. So it's a little bit scary at times. You do feel a little bit like overwhelmed. And when you're in meetings and you don't want to look like you don't know what's going on, you don't want to look vulnerable. You just have to. Sort of come across as this woman that you do have all your ducks in a row, you know what's going on. And by sort of like pretending that I do, I feel like I've sort of That I've sort of like embodied someone that does know what's going on because I've had Learn it so quickly, and so someone's pretend that I've now embodied that person that when I'm in a meeting, I can hold my own and I can sit there and say, yeah, I know what's going on. I want to do this, this, and that.”

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  25. “Choose not to go out, I'll be honest. And I think sometimes it has to take Fran to say to me going to the Trapper Centre on a Saturday afternoon in Manchester is not a smart idea as much as I would like to. Even like the Christmas market's just opened in Manchester, we were going to go the other night. We were like, no, it's a bad idea. It sounds like you're being bigheaded when you say it, but you just, I mean, someone come out with me and see it's not like a normal experience. You have to take security. You have to, it's not like you're just quit nipping out. It's a lot. It's not that you've got a baby. It sounds like you're trying to get a baby ready. You're not just nipping out. It's a lot to think about”

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  26. “I met him before, you know. Oh, really? Yeah. On a plane, we were flying back from. Vegas together at the same time. He was so lovely to me and Tommy and has always stayed in contact with Tommy since and messages him and says, I hope you're well, brother. And I really didn't expect that.”

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  27. “People. That's a lot of people. So it's a lot of people that know who you are and want to grab pictures. And it's amazing. It is amazing. And one thing I always say is that I never, ever, ever in my whole career, ever said no to a picture because I just, I like it. It's fun. It's nice that people want to take a picture of you like, what an honor like that someone wants to take a picture of me. Like, that will never feel real.”

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  28. “Different if I never really talk about that because it sounds big head of me. You're like, you do get stopped, but it's Mental, it's crazy, and like it will never feel real, especially when I go out with Tommy. Obviously, he's tall, everyone spots Tommy. And he has a really different audience to me. So it's like when walking through like a shopping centre, his audience is in there and my audience is in there. So it's like a huge amount of people. And obviously. Our combined following when we go out, it's heading on 10 million.”

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  29. “No, I wouldn't say so, you know. I love my life now. I literally pinch myself every day that this is the life I live. And yeah, like things like the burglary happen and it's shit and it's scary. And I have bad days, but I'm so blessed to live this life. Like I pinch myself every day that I wake up and I never want to go back to my old life. That terrifies me because obviously, as I told you at the start, that ordinary life that I was living before, I never wanted that. I want what I had now and what I'm working on achieving.”

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  30. “At all because I'd rather spend money on security than spend it on a handbag. What makes you feel better now? The security, of course, because I can go down the street and know I'm safe. I don't know. It's changed a lot.”

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  31. “Yeah, we're really lucky in that, as I said, it's taught us how we need to be now. And I actually have close protection security now, and I'm trying to get used to that. It's a hour. And I don't know how long or forever or whatever, but it's just mad, like that having to put these precautions in place now. I don't really wear my jewelry anymore. What I have left of it, I'm not wearing it because I just, it made me realize that it just doesn't really matter. People are just so cruel and they are jealous that these things, it's better off just to, I don't know, I just think it changed things for me. It took that superficialness away. It just made me realize actually these things aren't important. Your health and your happiness and your safety. Safety is key. I'm spending a fortune now on security, but really there's no price.”

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  32. “Is sad, it is, but I think people understand. I see a lot of tweets now being like, because I've posted, I mean, literally smidgens of where we live now. Like I mean like a cushion. And everyone's like saying, I'm so good. We're not going to get a house tour. And I'd absolutely love to give a house tour because this house is incredible and I want to, I don't want to show it off. I want to show my followers and be like, this is where we're living now. This is the new kitchen. This is the new bedroom. You know, like that's me. I'm an oversharer. But now I'm taking videos and I'm like, is that too much? Am I showing too much there? Like the newspaper is going to find out from right move which house that is. You know, I'm thinking that way now. And it's sad at 22 years old that you have to think that way.”

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  33. “How I need to be now. I can't just be that normal girl that is blas ⁇ and posts everything on her socials. It's not. I need to do better to protect myself and Tommy. Unfortunately, it's sad, but it's just the way it's got to be now and everything's got to change.”

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  34. “Well, I had no Yeah, I had no choice and I mentioned that on my social media I said I don't want to change the way I live. I don't want to change the way I talk to you guys. That's what I love doing. I love sharing everything. But if it's going to compromise my safety, I can't, I can't, it's not fair. It's really hard and I'm now trying to work on this new balance of sharing but not oversharing so that I make me and tell me not safe anymore. And it's finding this new way of living and having close protection security now and moving and making sure not even my nail tech so much as comes to my house because I can't have anybody knowing where I live now. It's like even delivery. No, can't. It's not possible. Like it's just not safe because it takes one wrong person to know where you live. And I think, you know what? I will say that it is not a positive thing what happened, but maybe it needed to happen in order to make me learn.”

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  35. “It's tricky because I'll be honest, Tommy, he's different with how he spends his money. He doesn't really buy things. He's a bit of, the way he's been raised, he's quite shrewd with, we're very different. He reacted differently to me. I was much more like trying to sort everything out, you know, insurance and making sure we're okay. And Tommy's just like sort of, it'll be fine, it'll be fine. He's very laid back. It's very hard to explain how he is. We're like polar opposites, but that's why we work. But yeah, I mean, it was just different.”

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  36. “100% and once those emotions are tampered with and once they're spoiled, it's gone like it's not, it's just bricks and morts then. It's not a special place anymore. And I think, yeah, out of everything that happened, that's been what I've been finding hard to deal with because when I drive past and stuff, it's heartbreaking. It's like, God, that is how quickly can things change. Like things can change in such a few hours. Everything changed. Like I was in a meeting about something really exciting in London. Next thing you know, your house has been ransacked. Everything's been taken. You need to come home right away. And I just didn't know what to expect. I just expected the worst and it was a good job that I did because it was bad. Everything. Everything”

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  37. “It wasn't any of that, it was the fact that I knew the second we found out we were in a meeting in London and we got the call and I knew the minute I found out that we were going to have to leave and I just, it was that was the most heartbreaking thing for me because to be forced out of your home that you love so much and that you weren't ready to leave anytime soon, it was like it was heartbreaking it was awful”

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  38. “Especially the home that we were living in. I spoke about it in a YouTube briefly, really briefly, because again, I'm always too scared to say too much, but that home for me was, I've had a lot of homes and nothing quite was like that place for me. It was just, it wasn't a huge apartment. It was just a normal apartment in a really nice area. And ironically, I just always felt so safe there. Every time I went in and I locked the front door and I run myself a bath, it was like my switch off zone. It was like where I felt like I could just be that 22 year old normal girl with a few thousand followers on Instagram. Like I felt like I just, it was my haven. So I think out of what happened with the burglary, I think that's been the hardest thing because that was snatched away from us. It wasn't the materialistic things that were taken. It wasn't all the possessions that were gone. It wasn't violating our space and it was around.”

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  39. “You're so right. You're so right. When you go into the PRT office, it's all young girls working in there. All different kinds of girls were all young. And it's really interesting because there's like two sides to the office. You've got like the tech side, which are like all the guys, like working around the computers, like trying to make sure the website doesn't crash when they have a massive sale. Then you have like... And I think if I didn't do what I did now, I'd want to work for PLT in a different way. Like I'd want to work in the social media because it's an incredible job. All the girls that work there are so lucky.”

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  40. “In the work now again for about six months. It's a lot of work. And it's interesting as well. Again, I'll sit here and I'll say, I'll be honest, it's a business role and I'm learning. I'm not, I don't know everything about business, you know, and a lot of, I got a lot of backlash when I came forward saying I was the new creative director. People were saying, what do you know about being a creative director? You've never been to university. But it's not so much that I go in and I talk about numbers and I talk about the nitty gritty of like I'm more there to give my perspective on how things should be done. I'm there to go into the studios and say I think this needs to be changed. I think this, you know, I'm there to be that fresh set of eyes and to be the consumer giving their voice. That's sort of how it works.”

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  41. “Well, I think people wouldn't understand that the creative director, or it wasn't just out of the blue, it came about because I have been, I've always given my input and everything that I've done, in every collection I've bought out. I've always done more than the average influencer. And I think PLT saw that. I think they saw, hang on, this girl's actually got something to offer. She's got ideas on every shoe. I have a large input with location, sets, you know, photographers models that I use. I've always never just sat back and said, yeah, that'll do. I'll do that. I've always had something to say. So it was, I think they saw that. And I think even things have changed so much now since I've come in this role, like the collections that I'm bringing out now, like they're worked on for a year. They're not. It's like, I mean, the one we're bringing out now next, it's been working on, we've been working on it now for about seven months. So it's things that are done a lot more seriously. They're not rushed. They're really thought through. We work. I don't know how much I can speak about it, but we're working on London Fashion Week Show, which has been...”

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  42. “And PRT didn't actually, it was Uma Zoom called me. They were actually the only one that didn't show up on the day, but they were the most important to me because I knew that I was like these business meetings with all these other brands are kind of irrelevant because I know I want PRT. PRT wasn't the highest money offer that came forward. There were brands that came forward and offered me triple what PRT offered me. But because I love PRT so much and because I believed them wholeheartedly and I knew that me working with them was going to be something. The way it is now, I went with them, and it was the best thing I ever did.”

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  43. “We've believed in each other from the very start, so it was just such an organic movement for me, like just to in that business. And another funny story is that when I came out of Love Island, I had this day where all these fashion runs, they came forward and they sat down and they offered me all these crazy deals. I'm not joking, there was probably about 15 of all my dream brands. They came in and they were like, we'll offer you this, we'll offer you a car, we'll offer you this amount of money.”

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  44. “Well, I have a huge role within the business now. I have a huge voice within the business. And I think what's so amazing is that I am the consumer. I am that their target market really, that age range. I am that consumer. So to have me in the business with my views, with my guidance, it's really helpful to them. It's a fresh pair of eyes. I think they really needed that. And I think because I know the brand so well and I've worked with them, I worked with them way before Love Island. I've worked with PRT now for heading on six years. They were the one of the first businesses, one of the first fashion companies that gifted me when I had about 11,000 followers on Instagram. So I've just...”

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  45. “It was, yeah, I think it was just no one really expected it. I think no one saw it coming. I think they probably just thought when I said I had a big announcement, they probably like, oh, it's just another collection. She's just bringing out a few more pieces of clothes. No, it was when I said I had the biggest piece of, like, my biggest achievement. Yeah, I meant it. It was my biggest achievement yet. Like I'm not just an influencer anymore. I'm the creative director of Pretty Little Thing. hasn't still really sunken in yet for me.”

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  46. “And if not, then we'll just carry on doing what we're doing, or we'll see. And Frown worked on it with Uma and they spoke and they spoke. And it was about six months in discussion. And then Fram rang me. I was in my car and she was like, we've got it. You're going to be the creative director of PlayLaw thing. And it was a really like, it was a crazy moment. I screamed down the phone. I was like, oh my God, like this is wild. And I was just so excited to tell everybody. I had to wait a few months. I knew I was sitting on it for a while. And then I told everyone and it literally blew up the internet. I didn't expect it to have like the effect that it did, but it was huge, literally huge.”

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  47. “You know, with pretty little thing, it was crazy because I knew when I started working with them, it was like I had this feeling that it was going to go bigger than I had anticipated. We bought out these collections and bought out these edits and it was just growing and growing and my growth was going up and it just wasn't slowing down and I created such a close relationship with PLT and they really understood each other. And it just grew past that point of being an influencer because I don't really count myself as an influencer anymore. I know I am, theoretically, but it's more than that now. And I am more of a businesswoman and I feel like PLT was in the works for a while. There was conversations about this role. And I never really spoke about how it happened, but there was conversations about a role. Creative director was mentioned and I was like, that's the only one I want. I don't want anything else. I don't want to be head of any other department. Creative director is my role.”

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  48. “Well, it was shortly after Caroline Flack had passed away, which was obviously heartbreaking and it was a huge, huge, huge shock. And myself and PLT, we'd planned this huge launch party and a big launch dinner. And I was there getting ready for it. We cancelled it on. It was a really tricky time, and I think I'm so proud to be a part of PRT in a way that they were so on board with it straight away. And it was totally my idea. And I went and I said, this is what needs to happen. And they were like, yeah, it wasn't even a hesitation. It wasn't like, no, but we need to make money back. No. They totally understood. Yeah, and I'm blessed to work with PRT so closely because they're just amazing at that time.”

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  49. “With these huge banks, and they're like It's mental. And I don't want it. I wouldn't even give advice because I'm still learning and I'm not afraid to say that. Learning every day with it, but yeah, it is daunting, it's a whole new world.”

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  50. “I don't think I'm the, I'll be honest, I don't think I'm there yet myself to give advice. I'm still learning. I have, yeah, a large amount of money for someone in my agent. I have to sort of rely on people around me to advise me with it. Like I've just started investing, which has been a huge interesting new chapter for me. I hadn't got a clue about investing, but I know it's really important. I knew it's a key thing and I need to do it. I didn't know where to start. So I've been learning about that, which has been really interesting. But I know it is cliche and I know everyone says it. But because you don't learn these things in school, like it's so daunting. And my situation is so niche in that I came to a large amount of money so quickly and it was so vulnerable. Like I had to sort of like get my parents on board with it because I just, you trust all these people, but it was so scary. I'd say it's probably the most daunting thing really, like come now and this new world of like, I didn't have liter octopus in before and now I'm like dealing.”

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