Love Island UK star Charleen Murphy’s secret career brought to light after entering villa

Love Island bombshell Charleen Murphy has been keeping a pretty unexpected career under wraps.

Before heading into the villa during Casa Amor, the 27-year-old Irish social media star, who boasts over 500k followers on Instagram alone, tried her hand at music, even releasing a song and starring in its official music video back in 2020.

Charleen teamed up with Dublin rapper TheWheloFella on the track 'The Secret', appearing in the video as she sang the lyric: "I won't tell if you won't."

While the throwback track never became a chart hit, it has racked up more than 130,000 views on YouTube over the last six years.

Love Island star Charleen Murphy once tried her hand at music (ITV)

And it's clear that music wasn't just a one-off either.

Although Charleen stepped away from releasing tracks, her close friend Ellie Kelly later encouraged her to get back on stage by organising a live performance.

Since then, Charleen has released music on Spotify and even performed her debut single, 'Superstar', at Longitude Festival a few years back in 2024, as well as during live dates for her podcast tour.

Kavan brought Charleen back to the Villa from Casa Amor (ITV)

While plenty of viewers know Charleen as one of Ireland's biggest influencers, she's also built a huge following alongside Ellie through their hit podcast, Hold My Drink.

The pair became known for chatting about dating disasters, relationships and life with their trademark humour, selling out Dublin's Vicar Street when they took the podcast on tour in 2023.

Although Hold My Drink was put on pause earlier this year, fans are still hoping the duo will eventually bring it back.

As we say, Charleen entered the season as a Casa Amor bombshell and Kavan decided to bring her back to the main Villa.

However, things don't seem to be going too well between the pair, as it appears he's trying to win his former flame Jasmine back.

During a particularly emotional chat in last night's episode (5 July), Charleen told Kavan: "I don't understand why you brought me back here, really."

After some back and forth, Kavan explained: "I want to prioritise Jas. I'm sorry, Charleen.

"It's got to me, the Casa thing, but I'll just be truthful now that that's where I'm at."

He continued: "Yeah, I've made a mistake. That's something I've got to just hold."

"What am I meant to do now? Sit here? It's like I'm being ghosted in real life," Charleen responded.

ITV viewers will simply have to watch on to see how the drama plays out this week...

Love Island continues tonight at 9 pm on ITVX and ITVX.