Love Island embroiled in bullying row after new Casa Amor bombshell is accused of homophobic abuse

Love Island has become caught up in a bullying row after one of its latest contestants was accused of homophobic abuse. 

Kodie Murphy has been brought into the Casa Amor villa in order to turn the heads of the girls.

But after the 20-year-old Brummie was announced to be going on the show, he was hit by a wave of accusations.

One person took to Twitter to write: ‘What a way to end pride month, a boy who I went secondary school with who bullied me for being gay is put on love island.’ 

Someone else added: ‘I second this. I’ve seen it happen from Kodie.’

New bombshell: Kodie Murphy has been brought into the Casa Amor villa in order to turn the heads of the girls

MailOnline has contacted representatives for Love Island for comment. 

Love Island has previously stated that it has a zero tolerance approach to offensive and abusive language.

It comes after Kodie was also branded a liar by a girlfriend ahead of his appearance on the ITV2 show.

Taking to social media he was accused of telling the beauty, who claims she was in an exclusive relationship with the hunk, that he was heading on a ‘work trip’ when he was actually jetting off to Majorca and the famous villa. 

Sharing a snap of them together she wrote: ‘As some of you may know @KodieMurphy and I have been exclusive for some time and now I’ve come to find out this ‘work trip’ he was going on was actually Casa Amor.

She continued: ‘Couldn’t feel more hurt and disrespected, Kodie you had plenty of time to tell me, however I hope you find what you’re looking for’.

Before adding: ‘I wish you luck’. 

MailOnline have contacted Love Island reps for comment. 

Blasted: It comes after Kodie was also branded a liar by a girlfriend ahead of his appearance on the ITV2 show

Shock: Taking to social media he was accused of telling the beauty, who claims she was in an exclusive relationship with the hunk, that he was heading on a ‘work trip’ 

Ahead of his appearance Kodie described himself as ‘flirty, cheeky and mischievous’ and clearly loves to share shirtless snaps to his Instagram.

The social media marketer from Birmingham, who has his eyes on Jess Harding and Leah Taylor, regularly shares sexy shots of himself to his over 45,000 followers.  

Kodie is a keen traveller, having jetted to the likes of Thailand, Vietnam, Cyprus, Mexico and Ibiza within the last 12 months. 

He joined Ouzy See, Zachary Ashford, Elom Ahlijah-Wilson, Lochan Nowacki and Benjamin Noel as they entered the villa in the exciting twist.