Loose Women star Olivia Attwood has admitted that she turns up to work hungover and is left shocked when she looks back at clips of her which are released to the public.

Loose Women star Olivia Attwood has admitted that she turns up to work hungover (Image: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)

Former Love Island star Olivia Attwood is busier than ever – presenting hit TV shows, making documentaries and hosting a KISS radio show every weekend. But the TV star, 34, still loves to fit in the occasional big night out, telling Mirror she’s even been known to take to the airwaves with a sore head on a Sunday afternoon.

“I am very professional and I don’t go to work hungover, apart from the radio – and I need to stop doing that,” she reveals. “Even though the radio is recorded live, there’s this weird feeling that you’re not being watched. At the time the listeners are not watching, but then they put the clips out. I’m thinking, ‘Oh, my God!’”

She adds, “When I go out, I don’t want it to end. It’ll be 6am in Soho and my friends will be like, ‘We should go.’ I’m like, ‘No, one more!’ They’re like, ‘There is nowhere to go.’”

Olivia co-hosts a Kiss radio show alongside close pal pete Wicks(Image: Kiss FM)

As well as co-hosting The Sunday Roast on KISS with Pete Wicks, Olivia made her presenting debut on This Morning this summer, and a new series of Olivia Attwood’s Bad Boyfriends is about to return to our screens.

In the show, a group of unsuspecting men are brought to a luxury retreat and put through a series of challenges by their girlfriends – with a little help from Olivia. Featuring a surprise appearance from former Celebrity Big Brother winner David Potts, it seems we can expect this series to reach explosive new heights.

“They are a rowdy bunch,” Olivia laughs. “I had to control them on the floor sometimes. What makes this show unique is all these people have relationship history, so they’re coming in full of tension.”

And this time there’s a twist. “This series, we shine the light back onto the girlfriends a little bit,” she says. “I asked them to soul search, like, ‘You’ve brought this guy here and they don’t seem to have any redeemable qualities, so why are you with them?’

Her ITV show Bad Boyfriends is returning for a second season this month(Image: ITV)

“There is a real mix of people and stories,” she says. “You will relate to someone in that show or you’ll have a sister or a friend who has been through it. “It’s the closest you’re going to get to old-school reality. There is heart and drama, and it’s camp and silly. Every episode takes you somewhere.”

And nothing is off-limits for the cameras, either. “We follow raw moments as much as we can. If someone wants five minutes’ break, we look after them. There are moments where they might be with welfare but most of what happens, you see.”

Away from the series, Olivia’s own romance with footballer husband Bradley Dack, 31, is a little less dramatic. They tied the knot in 2023 in a stunning ceremony which fans followed on her ITVBe series Olivia Marries Her Match .

Olivia has been married to footballer Bradley Dack since 2023(Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images)

But while the wedding at London’s swanky Bulgari Hotel was dreamy, she’s the first to admit married life is not always so blissful.

“Brad and I do have a lovely relationship, but I’m not perfect, he’s not perfect. It’s not the perfect relationship, but it’s a good relationship. That’s the thing that we all learn – there is no such thing as perfect.”

Now that she is one of TV’s hardest-working women, the balance in the couple’s careers has shifted. “In his early days he was doing his football and was always out, and now I’m the one who’s filming seven days a week and he has to help me more. I miss his football games because I’m working. He says, ‘You save all your nice personality for work and then you come in like, ‘Where’s my dinner?’”

However, Olivia says Brad accepts her for who she is. “I am still going to go to Ibiza to a rave and wear a bikini. That’s who I am,” she says. “He never tries to dampen me down. I’ve had a lot of relationships where the guy has done that, so when you get into one where someone likes you and embraces you for who you really are, it’s very freeing.”

It’s been almost 10 years since Olivia left the Love Island villa, when she finished in third place with Chris Hughes. “When you leave, you get a crash course on dealing with being in the public eye, but I can’t actually remember life before it,” she says.

Despite her success, Olivia remains refreshingly grounded. “I still don’t think of myself as famous,” she says. “Mariah Carey is famous. If you live in the UK, you might know me but my life is pretty normal.”

But with her career in the ascendancy, she shows no signs of slowing down. “I’ve been hustling since I got out of that villa,” she smiles. “They can’t get rid of me.”