Love Island’s Montana Brown signs up to Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls
Producers have already told the reality star she must gain weight ahead of filming to prepare for the gruelling conditions
SHE made her name on Love Island, and now Montana Brown is heading back out - sort of.
The reality star is taking part in the next series of Bear Grylls' brutal reality show Celebrity Island.
However, Montana has already been told by producers she must gain weight ahead of filming to prepare for the gruelling conditions with little food.
The star, 22, who has forged a successful career as TV presenter, is currently a slim size 8, but is bulking up ahead of jetting out to an uninhabited island for four weeks for the Channel 4 series.
She'll be joining Jo Wood and former Emmerdale actress Roxanne Pallett, as well as a host of other celebrities, but will miss her boyfriend male model Elliott Reeder, 22.
A TV source said: "The Island makes other reality shows look like a walk in the park.
Montana is really looking forward to the challenge, but she's worried about the lack of food.
"She has a fast metabolism and enjoys eating healthy meals."
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Bear will fly with the celebrities to Las Perlas, which lies about 30 miles off the coast of Panama in Central America, before leaving them to fend for themselves after just one day.
Montana's weight gain advice comes after former Towie star Lucy Mecklenburgh was told to pile on the pounds by crew last year before taking part in the show.
She said: "I was told you should get used to eating less and less but then the I was told: 'No, no, no you need to put on some weight. So I put on half a stone before I left."
But she lost two stone while filming the show.
Lucy said: "It was weird because when you're there you don't really feel as thin as you are because you don't have a mirror so you don't really know how tiny you are and then you get back and you realise.
"To feel weak and to have to start back to training how I did day one of training, I literally had to build my fitness back up and health and everything it was very strange."
But there was one perk - putting the weight back on.
She added: "I must admit it was really nice to indulge. I put on all the weight in three weeks and the doctor was like: 'Wow that is some serious eating."
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