Love Island’s Siannise Fudge and Luke Trotman ‘earn £39,000 on TikTok’

Love Island runners up Siannise Fudge and Luke Trotman have become the show’s top TikTok earners in lockdown.

The beauty consultant, 25, and the footballer, 22 – who have 874,000 and 1.1 million followers respectively – are said to have amassed an impressive £39,000 from the platform after captivating fans with their dance and exercise videos.

It comes after the stars of the winter series of the ITV2 reality show were estimated to have missed out on £500,000 in lost earnings due to the coronavirus lockdown coming into force shortly after their season ended. 

According to online marketplace OnBuy, Luke is the highest earner, making an estimated £878.89 per post, amassing total earnings of £22,851.14 since lockdown began. 

Siannise sits in third place with £702.30 per post and has a current estimated total earnings of around £16,379 – meaning the couple, who finished the series in second place, have earned nearly £40,000.

Love Island 2019 champion Amber Gill, 22, who has one million followers, has made £818.95 per post, totalling £16,379 so far and is in second place.

In fourth place is Love Island 2016 star  Kady McDermott, who has 711,000 followers.

Love Island 2020 champions Finn Tapp and Paige Turley make approximately £200 per video. 

MailOnline has contacted representatives for the Love Island stars for comment. 

This comes amid claims the stars of Love Island‘s inaugural winter series have lost £500,000 in ‘missed opportunities’, a PR expert had predicted.

Following January’s show, which was filmed in South Africa, stars including Finn Tapp, Paige Turley, Sophie Piper and Luke Trotman were looking to follow to in the success of former stars, with lucrative club promotions and signings.

Yet amid the coronavirus pandemic, Jack Cooper of EdHopkinsPR revealed to Metro that stars have missed key moneymaking moments which have previously bagged stars up to millions of pounds.  

ITV aired its first winter series in January, having previously aired a series starting in June every year since 2015 (save for 2016’s series, which started on 30 May). 

The show was thwarted with woes, as its host Caroline Flack stood down as presenter amid an assault charge following a row with her boyfriend Lewis Burton. 

Caroline, who was replaced by Laura Whitmore while awaiting trial, tragically took her own life in February leading to widespread heartache.

Shortly after the show came off air in February, the global coronavirus pandemic began shortly before Prime Minister Boris Johnson enforced a lockdown – which saw what would be money-making opportunities for the cast cancelled. 

 He said: ‘They are also missing out on club appearances due to them being closed, which could have earned them up to £5,000 per hour’. 

While the show has made millionaires out of many of its contestants, including Olivia Buckland, Alex Bowen, Dani Dyer and Chris Hughes, PR expert Jack has predicted that this year’s contestants will have such chances thwarted. 

He went on: ‘With no events to attend, they are also missing out on a huge range of exposure in the media, having no stories for the press to write about…

 ‘The Winter Love Island stars are set to lose huge amounts of money, some contestants up to £500,000. Brand deals at the moment are at an all-time low.  

‘Many of the participants have approached us to represent them during this tough time. Due to our books being full and also the lack of opportunities in the industry at this time, we have had to decline them.’

Despite this, he predicts couples who are still together stand a better chance, as he said: ‘People are interested in keeping up to date with what they are doing, especially if they are isolating together…

‘Being in a couple brings up their financial worth, and in some circumstances could secure them a deal of up to £10,000.’