Love Island has officially started and it’s not been short of drama.

The dating show returned on Monday night with the first 10 contestants making their way to sunny South Africa to find love.

One of the newbies who has already made his mark is Ron Hall, a 25-year-old financial adviser from Essex who coupled up with make-up artist Lana Jenkins.

But it looks like he is going to be the first one to have his head turned, after heading out on a date with bombshell Zara Deniz Lackenby-Brown on Wednesday night’s episode.

He initially started off by praising his blonde partner but by the end of the date admitted to the rest of the boys that his ‘head was swivelling’.

Ron has already hit the headlines after becoming the show’s first-ever partially sighted contestant.

Last summer, model Tasha Ghouri was the show’s ever first-deaf contestant. She was quickly praised by viewers for not hiding her cochlear implant and opening up to her fellow islanders about her ‘superpower’.

Speaking before he flew out to Cape Town, Ron said he hoped that he could raise awareness about being partially sighted during his stay in the villa.

He told Lana on the first night about how it happened – saying that he lost sight in one eye when he was playing football aged eight.

He missed year six of school after he was kicked in the face and knocked unconscious while going for a hearer – although he still went back on the patch to try and score a goal, despite being unable to see.

But he said the life-changing incident has shaped him as a person ‘in a really good way’ and that having different coloured eyes, one blue and one green, is a ‘good conversation starter’ with the ladies.

He said: “I just think of myself as normal, although yeah I am disabled and I don’t mind the label. If I can bring awareness and be vocal about it, then fantastic.

“If there’s someone sitting at home, there’s another lad or girl who’s partially sighted or feels a bit insecure about something to do with their vision, whether it’s blind in one eye, or whatever the situation is, and I can make an impact on them to say, ‘You know what, this guy is confident and he’s gone on this show and he’s still talking to girls no problem even though he’s got ‘something wrong with him’, then yeah, that’s fantastic if I can do that.”

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