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Meet Britain's oldest Love Island fan - a great-grandmother who won't miss an episode

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Meet Britain's oldest Love Island fan - a great-grandmother who won't miss an episode.

Cathie Tosh, 90, is hooked on the hit reality show.

She loves sitting down at 9pm every evening before gossiping about the show with her family the next day.

And Cathie, from Dundee, is backing Molly Marsh to triumph.

The great-grandmother of three, who used to work as a shop assistant, said: "I just love watching [Love Island]."

"I always wonder what's going to happen next with the couples and if they’ll split up and go with someone else. "

"Sometimes I tape it so I can watch it if I think I’m going to miss it - I like to know what's happening. "

"I look forward to seeing it and love watching the couples to see how they're getting on. "

"I quite like Molly who came back – I’d like to see her win. "

"We don’t know what's going to happen to her, I think she’ll go back to the lad she's with - we’ll wait and see." "

Cathie, says it was her granddaughter Stephanie Abbott, 33, a customer service assistant, who first got her hooked on the reality show.

She now has a baby so doesn’t have as much time to indulge in the show.

But Cathie, who lost husband Tom Tosh in 2005, still loves to settle down in the evening and catch up on the day's events.



She says her favourite part of the series is when the boys and girls are split up and sent to Casa Amor.

But she says she hates seeing the couples who are close then break-up.

Cathie, a grandmother-of-four said: "I watch everything and take it all in – I've watched it since I knew about it. "

"I watch all the soaps earlier on [in the day] but I like watching Love Island at night time. "

"I watch it on my own at night, my granddaughter used to watch it with me before she had a baby. "

"Sometimes if it’s on too early I’ll tape it and watch it later on, I never miss an episode. "

"I like when they split to go to different places and meet other people and you don’t know what's going to happen - you think ‘maybe she should stay with him’. "

"But I hate when they're really close and then something happens, and they go back to their other partners. "

"I always watch Aftersun as well as I like to know what's happening with them, I like watching the unseen bits as well. "

"I love it, I really do." "

Daughter Karen Abbott, 66, a retiree, says her mum is young at heart and that she loves to chat about the latest drama with the rest of the family.

Karen said: "It amazes me how it all started with my daughters. They were talking about it and my mum said she has to watch this."

"We all watch it together when we can. She watches everything though including Aftersun and Unseen Bits."

"She's young at heart and remarkable for her age."

"She's more into it than us now!"

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