‘Love Island’ star Shaq Muhammad once found sex toys in a pensioner’s suitcase.
Shaq Muhammad once found sex toys in a OAP's suitcase
The 24-year-old airport security worker - who will enter the ITV2 dating competition’s villa in South Africa on Monday (16.01.23) - believes all his occupational hazards have prepared him for the potential problems of the show.
Shaq told The Sun newspaper: “So I was searching bags, and I get an old lady that comes over.
“And then she goes to me, ‘Oh, do you have to open it here?’ And I’m thinking, ‘Yeah, I kind of do!,’ so I open the bag, and I kid you not, I find dildos, handcuffs, vibrators.
“Bearing in mind this woman is 75 years old - I have an awkward look on my face, she has an awkward look on her face.
"Her husband behind her is like looking away, pretending he doesn’t know her. It was kind of funny, we all laughed at the end.
“I feel like once I’ve seen that, I’m braced for anything, really. I don’t think I’m that shockable, but you never know what could happen in the villa.”
Shaq admitted his job is a “good” training ground for flirting with the ladies.
He said: "So you might just give her a look and then just start chatting, Oh, where are you from? Do you come to London often?’
“And then I have to do it sneakily, and give them my information because I can’t get my phone out. So I say, ‘You should follow me on Instagram,’ or ‘take my number’ or something like that.
“And usually it works - the airport is a good place to pick up women, like exotic women, so I try my best.”
He also spilled how it has given him a good understanding of conflict resolution.
Shaq said: “I come across a lot of people that are rushing for their flight and some of them get a bit upset and rude.
“I feel like it’s important to just stay calm and just help them get on their way.
“So in the villa, I may just take them to the side or something like that, and just be like: ‘Maybe the way you said that, you could have said that a little bit better,’ or, ‘you’ve got to remember she’s a woman’.”