{"id":156149,"date":"2025-06-04T00:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T00:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156149\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T00:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T00:39:09","slug":"kyle-ashman-off-love-island-uk-season-12-itv2-cites-an-incident-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156149\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Ashman Off &#8216;Love Island UK&#8217; Season 12; ITV2 Cites An Incident From The Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKyla Ashman will not enter the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/love-island\/\" id=\"auto-tag_love-island\" data-tag=\"love-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Love Island<\/a> UK villa hours after ITV2 revealed the cast for the summer 2025 series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAshman was one of the Islanders confirmed to enter the reality dating series hosted by Maya Jama, but an incident from the past forced producers to ax his appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cFor personal reasons, Kyle will not be entering the Love Island Villa as planned,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/itv\/\" id=\"auto-tag_itv\" data-tag=\"itv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ITV<\/a> said in a statement to Deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDeadline confirmed that none of the Islanders has entered the villa in Mallorca, and this will not affect the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMultiple reports say Ashman was involved in a machete attack incident. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tvandshowbiz\/35246758\/love-island-kyle-ashman-fired-machete-attack\/\">The Sun<\/a> reported that the Love Island hopeful had been arrested on suspicion of being involved in the attack. In a statement, Ashman denies any involvement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI fully cooperated with this police investigation and made it very clear that I had no involvement in this incident,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cI am not a violent person, and any suggestion otherwise is a mischaracterisation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Sun further reported that the incident took place in February when \u201cmasked thugs stormed a wake in Stafford and hacked at a dad\u201d who \u201cnearly lost his arm.\u201d Additionally, another person was glassed, another one was struck with a metal pole, and two people were run over by a car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAshman, a 23-year-old water operative from Stafford, was one of two suspects questioned about the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tITV seemingly was unaware of the incident until the publication flagged it, and the decision was made to part ways with Ashman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLove Island UK Season 12 will premiere in the UK at 9 p.m. Monday, June 9, on ITV2\u00a0and in the U.S. on Thursday, June 12, via Hulu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyla Ashman will not enter the Love Island UK villa hours after ITV2 revealed the cast for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,208,383,2650,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-156149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-itv","10":"tag-love-island","11":"tag-reality-tv","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114622310907414233","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}