COVER FEATURE Credit for all photos: Ben Symons
THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT SOPHIE Our home grown beauty talks about Love Island, heartbreak and her diverse career. Beside her great looks, wicked laugh and rapid fire comments, Sophie Monk has one even more endearing quality. Total honesty. Ask her any question about any aspect of her life and she will gladly give you her take on what was going on at that point. She seems to have reached a calmness and acceptance about the varied twists and turns that have played out over her life and career, usually in full view of the public, and is unfazed by anyone else’s view. Now as ‘Love Island’ places a ridiculously good looking assortment of hot singles, sourced from Tinder, Sophie is front and centre as the presenter deluxe of all that occurs on and off camera. She is the perfect choice to host Channel 9’s ‘Love Island’. Partially because of her welldocumented love life and also because she clearly remembers the first and definitely not the last time she had her heart broken. “It was in pre-school. There was a boy in my class who I really liked and I told him that. He rejected me, probably wasn’t ready for that sort of commitment,” she giggled. “Anyway the next year he came back and said he wanted to be my boyfriend but by that stage I had moved on to someone else.” She understands your pain.
SOPHIE MONK 16 GOLD COAST • PANACHE Magazine
