An Ex-Love Islander Was Protesting Outside Molly-Mae’s PrettyLittleThing Show

Molly-Mae Hague's PrettyLittleThing catwalk show happened last night, with the likes of her boyfriend Tommy Fury and best friend Maura Higgins turning up to support her.

But a group of protesters also turned up outside the show, held at the Londoner hotel in Leicester Square. They were there to protest against what they claim are unfair wages for Boohoo factory staff, which owns PrettyLittleThing. (One held a sign reading: 'PLT Creative Director Salary: £4.8 million, PLT garment maker salary £7,280. Same 24 hours in a day.') They were also chanting about sustainability.

One of the protestors there was Brett Staniland, who was on the latest series of Love Island{ =nofollow}. (Love Island was sponsored by I Saw It First last year, a fast fashion brand which was started by Jalal Kamani, the co-founder of Boohoo.)

Speaking toHeat before the show, Molly-Mae responded to previous backlash when she was appointed as creative director last year. 'I think people get it twisted and think "Molly-Mae is going to come in and flip this brand upside down and she's now the owner" but it's just not the case,' she said. 'I come in most days and I just sit and I give my creative input where I can and I give them my ideas because since being a consumer from the age of 14, I know what I want to see from this brand. I've gone through all the stages of being a PLT customer, to an influencer, to an ambassador to now the creative director.'

The influencer also revealed what she actually does in her role. 'For the last three years I sort of naturally developed more of a lead in the business, in terms of when I was coming in for meetings to talk about the collections that I was producing, I'd be giving out ideas and talking to the teams about things that I saw within the brand and they really appreciated my ideas,' she said. 'It was just an organic natural flow for me to just take on this role, because I was kind of already doing it anyway.' Molly added that unlike other celebrities who have worked on collections with the brand, she approved everything with her collections.

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