Love Island’s Terry Walsh was noooot so hot when he was younger

Love the mullet, Tezza

Love Island Terry and Emma

by Polly Foreman |
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Remember when Terry Walsh waltzed into Love Island and everyone fell in love with him? Like, seriously, quite literally everyone.

From fellow contestants (notably Malin Andersson, obvs) to basically the whole of Twitter (including Charlotte Crosby, who once tweeted: "Love island! Time to drool over terry for the next hour"), the entire nation wanted a piece of the tattooed hunk.

But after his behaviour on the show, in which he cheated on Malin after she left with new arrival Emma-Jane Woodham, we became slightly less besotted by the love rat.

And we became still less so when we saw this pic of him circa 2008, in which he looks like what can only be described as a surly orange man with a rosary bead necklace and a Liam Gallagher-esque mullet.

We can't decide if it's his hairdo or his rosary necklace we like best – maybe it's the necklace.

The picture was posted by former cast mate Tom Powell after the *Love Island *final last night, in which least awful couple Cara De La Hoyde and Nathan Massey were crowned winners.

Now, we all have snaps we'd rather forget (from our MySpace days etc. because we are 100 years old) – but luckily for us we aren't reality TV stars, meaning our pics are unlikely to be posted on the internet for all to see and mock.

But Terry doesn't have that luxury, and people flocked to Twitter to LOL at the star. One user tweeted: "It's amazing what a few tattoos and a haircut can do… He's still an absolute Anus..", and another: "Blimey, there's hope for us all".

Indeed there is.

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