After 10 Years of Failure, I Faced My Biggest Fear | Edward Tortell

Champions Connect Podcast · Dec 18, 2025 · 1h 27m

Why would a man who could not take his shirt off say yes to Love Island?

Edward Tortell is a Maltese entrepreneur who runs a ride hailing business, a former talent manager at Defhouse in Milan and a former Love Island Malta contestant.

At 15 or 16, Edward Tortell weighed 96 kilos. He played football at school in his blazer because he could not bear to show his body, and he was bullied for how he looked. At 19 he was a cashier at HSBC in Sliema on €1,000 a month, spending his salary every weekend on bottles at Footloose. The ten years that followed, he agrees, were essentially a decade of…