a b "BBC One - Celebrity Mastermind, 2020/21, Episode 12". Archived from the original on 24 April 2021 . Retrieved 15 July 2022. Samantha was looking forward to her best friend’s wedding in Tobago and being the bridesmaid, but right before she was to leave, her boyfriend dumped her. This means no plus one to be by her side. Arriving in Tobago where she will join the bride, groom, and assorted friends for a week of revelry before the wedding weekend, Samantha is feeling out of place with no date—that is, until she meets Roman. Roman happens to be related to the groom, but he is currently between jobs and helping his grandfather run a local store in Tobago. Samantha and Roman hit it off. What started as a potentially miserable week on a beautiful island turns into a joyous week of falling in love. But is this just a holiday romance? And don't get me started with that one sex seen. I didn't necessarily want or needed smut but it felt too PG. Wratten, Marcus (6 April 2023). "Love Island's Amber Gill 'still figuring out' sexuality as she breaks silence on dating Jen Beattie". PinkNews. Archived from the original on 6 April 2023 . Retrieved 9 October 2023. Emma is an experienced entertainment news journalist with NCTJ accreditation and a First-Class Honours Degree in Journalism. Having started her career as a broadcast journalist, Emma’s voice has been heard on varying radio stations across the UK including Absolute, Magic, BBC Three Counties Radio, LBC London News and more.

The storyline had so much potential when I read the blurb, but this just didn’t hit the mark for me. It felt rushed in places and unrealistic, even for a holiday romance. Though the two's first meet up isn't what anyone would call ideal, they moved past it and here, we get a classic friends to lovers experience that I loved!Now, she's basically the only single person on what has basically turned into a couples retreat 🙃 That is, until a chance meeting seems to stir something up in Samantha and has the potential for real love 🥺 It was evidently obvious that it was the first time the author was narrating a book and wasn't coming from much experience which made the experience even more uneventful as I wasn't digging the story or plot at all. More editing is just needed and more drafts (about 5.....).The conflict was meh, very low on conflict levels, not enough to keep the story going at all. The Full Treatment With Amber Gill". Home Talent Group. 12 August 2021. Archived from the original on 15 July 2022 . Retrieved 14 July 2022.

Samantha returned to the waiting area and dropped into her seat. The upgrade took the sting out of her misery. The trip to Tobago was long and arduous. If she had to go it alone, might as well travel in style. Amber Rose Gill (born 4 August 1997) is an English television personality and author. In 2019, she won the fifth series of Love Island. She has since presented the ITV series The Full Treatment (2021), as well as competing on the Channel 4 survival series Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins (2022). Also in 2022, Gill released her debut romance novel, Until I Met You.

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Love Island's Amber Gill: 'Writing sex scenes is a little awkward' ". BBC News. 31 July 2022 . Retrieved 3 August 2022. Iftikhar, Asyia. "Love Island's Amber Gill confirms 'accidental' coming out after saying she'd 'switched teams' ". Pink News . Retrieved 20 August 2022.

Love Island: Amber and Greg crowned 2019 winners in live final". BBC News. BBC. 30 July 2019. Archived from the original on 30 June 2022 . Retrieved 14 July 2022.There were so many entries, it was really hard… But it had such a nice vibe and when I finished the sample, I was dying to read more so I thought, ‘Well, that’s a good indictor’. It was just really beautifully written. There can sometimes be snobbery towards the romance genre. I wondered what you make of that? This follows our heroine Samantha, who has just been dumped days before she has to fly to Tobago for her best friends wedding. Our hero, Roman, the best friend of the groom, is also one of the only single people at the wedding, so naturally Samantha and Roman were drawn to each other. Iain Stirling's CelebAbility, Series 6, Episode 7". ITV Press. Archived from the original on 15 July 2022 . Retrieved 14 July 2022. Samantha closed the photo app and tapped on the WhatsApp icon. After a few swipes, she landed on the extended group chat saved under VEGAS SQUAD, in reference to the trip to Nevada nearly five years ago where she and Naomi had met Jasmine and Hugo. Her thumb hovered over the keyboard. She shouldn’t be this nervous. These were her friends, after all. They adored her, but they had the doggedness of unjaded criminal investigators. They wouldn’t stop until they got to the truth.

Disillusioned with his corporate job on Wall Street, Roman is starting afresh in Tobago. He doesn’t need a distraction, especially a free-spirited travel blogger. But something about Samantha intrigues him.She admits that receiving the first copy of her debut novel was a “how did this happen moment”. Gill worked with romantic fiction publisher Mills & Boon for Until I Met You, a sun lounger read with a message amid the passionate kisses. aIt was meant to be the holiday of a lifetime..Until Samantha found herself on her way to Tobago alone-- and single...Fed up with his corporate job...Roman was starting again in Tobago. The last thing he needed was a distraction...But something about Samantha inspired a protective instinct in Roman. As Samantha and Roman spend more time together under the tropical sun, lines between friendship begin to blur, until secrets put everything they thought they had found in jeopardy". I’m just about to start reading Cecelia Ahern’s The Time of My Life. She was always my favourite—if I saw one of her books, I was grabbing it straight away! I just absolutely love reading her romance, I used to read every book two or three times over. How do you feel now that people are going to be buying your book and reading it?