Love Island teacher Kai Fagan shares childhood link to Marcus Rashford as he braces himself for ‘cheeky’ students’ reactions to seeing him topless in villa-Meghna Amin and Samuel McManus-Entertainment – Metro

The pair went to school together! (Picture: Getty Images)

Love Island star Kai Fagan has opened up on his link to Marcus Rashford, after it was revealed the pair knew each other as children.

Kai is set to enter the villa for this year’s winter series, which sees Maya Jama take over as host from Laura Whitmore, alongside make-up artist Lana Jenkins and the villa’s first ever partially sighted contestant Ron Hall.

The 24-year-old science and PE teacher, who played semi-professional rugby, actually went to school with England football star Marcus.

Chatting to Metro.co.uk and other press ahead of entering the villa, Kai revealed the pair are no longer in touch.

‘No, I’m not still in touch with him,’ he told us.

‘I was in the same class as him from years 7 to 11, we went to the same sixth form, it was a really small sixth form.

The teacher went to school with Manchester United star Marcus (Picture: PA)

‘We grew up in the same area, I bump into people and I go to the gym with a few of his close mates but we’re not in direct contact with each other,’ he added.

Elsewhere, the teacher addressed the reaction he might get from his students – who he admitted can say ‘cheeky’ things – if they’re watching him on the hunt for love.

‘I think they’ll all be shocked, I would be if I had a teacher going on Love Island.

Kai’s ‘cheeky’ students will be watching! (Picture: ITV)

‘But every year Love Island comes on TV they’re like, “Mr Fagan, you should go on Love Island, you’d be amazing, go and smash it.”

‘There’s always rumours that I’m going to go on the show so I think they’ll be absolutely buzzing when they see it and probably make a load of TikToks.

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‘They’ll be seeing their teacher topless, they’ll be like *sharp intake of breath*.’

Kai added that he ‘hopes’ his students will be cheering him on, saying: ‘They’ll be watching and buzzing to see what I get up to.’

Love Island returns on Monday at 9pm on ITV2.

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