Too Hot To Handle’s Nicole once chose to stay in UCC over being on Love Island

"God, did I make the right decision?"

They say what's for you won't pass you. Cork native Nicole O'Brian will certainly be hoping that's the case as she transitions from the world of marketing to reality TV. She appears in Too Hot To Handle, the latest dating show to hit Netflix - but previously turned down a place on Love Island. Nicole has revealed that she was due to join the villa for the hit ITV show a few years back but was still at college in UCC at the time. She decided to stick with her studies - but always wondered whether it had been the right call.

"I was meant to do Love Island in, I think it was about 2016, and then I chose to just finish out my degree instead after I got the place on it last minute and just see if an opportunity like it would arise again," she told the Irish Sun. "And I constantly thought about it for years after being like, 'God, did I make the right decision? My life would be so much different now'. "Then this opportunity came along so it just proved to me that everything does happen for a reason and I constantly think that and believe in that."

Too Hot To Handle launched on Netflix on Friday morning, promising to keep us entertained during quarantine. It sees a bunch of hot young single people live together in a gorgeous villa and compete to win  $100,000. The catch? They can't have sex. We know what we'll be streaming this weekend...