Legal Cheek report..
Sharon Gaffka works as a civil servant and hopes to couple up with an ‘intellectual’
Love Island returns next week and among the contestants confirmed for the new series is a Birkbeck, University of London law student.
Sharon Gaffka, 25, from Oxford, is studying law part-time at the London university, according to her LinkedIn page. She started her degree, which is understood to be public law-focused, in 2018, and is expected to complete it by 2022.
A “future lawyer” according to her Instagram bio, Gaffka also works as a civil servant and spent an “intense” year working in government departments during the coronavirus crisis.
“I’ve been a civil servant since I was 18. I’ve worked in lots of different departments,” said Gaffka, ahead of her appearance on the show. “I’ve been doing Brexit policy for the last year, I did a stint during the coronavirus pandemic in the Department of Health so I was helping deliver testing kits and managing the operations. It’s been an intense year!”
Love Island bosses were reportedly keen to recruit ‘key workers’ for this year’s series following the success of doctor Alex George and solicitor Rosie Williams when they appeared as contestants on the fourth series of the dating show in 2018.
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