Love Island dad Carl Fogarty trolled as daughter Claudia enters villa

Carl Fogarty is a retired motorcycle racer who is no stranger to reality TV himself, having won I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! back in 2014. He wished his daughter Claudia luck, but was inundated with messages from Twitter trolls who accused the Love Islanders of being “desperate for fame”.

Former King of the Jungle Carl was excited to see how Claudia would progress in South Africa, and he had written a heartfelt message telling her so.

“Good luck to my daughter @claudiafogarty who makes her long awaited appearance on tonight’s @loveisland,” he wrote on Twitter.

However, the award-winning biker was quickly trolled by skeptical followers.

“Awful programme promoting talentless people though,” sneered one in response.

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Carl – who is more than three times more popular than his daughter on Instagram so far, with 103,000 followers to her 30,300 – is said to be hoping she increases her fame through the show.

During her big entrance, Claudia was fitted with a heart monitor, along with the other girls, so that viewers could find out which of the boys might set her heart racing.

She wasn’t the only one to dress to impress either, and housemate Tom was equipped with black wings, so that he could play a “dark angel” on the night.

Meanwhile, not only is her dad a seven times world champion in the biking world, but her sister Danielle is also associated with fame, having previously been engaged to X Factor star Jake Quickenden.