Love Island Alum Tasha Ghouri Embraces Her Asian Ethnicity

Love Island Alum Tasha Ghouri posing for photo session

Tasha Ghouri is a rising English reality TV star and model known for appearing in Love Island UK Season 8. She has also been the talk of the town due to her mixed ethnicity. 

Tasha was born Natasha Amber Ghouri in 1998 in North Yorkshire, England.

She attended Thirsk Primary School and Thirsk Secondary School and attended CAPA College and Creative Academy in Slough. After graduation, she moved to London.

Tasha started her career as a model and self-employed dancer behind the bar.

In 2020, she was featured in the music video for Sleepwalkers’ “More Than Words,” which featured MNEK. Then, in 2021, she worked with ASOS on an advertising campaign for earrings.

However,  Tasha got into the limelight after appearing in Love Island UK Season 8 in 2022.

 

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Initially, she made a couple with Andrew Le Page, but she went on a date with Jay Younger and Charlie Radnedge. But Tasha and Andrew remained a couple throughout the season and finished fourth in the show.

In 2023, Tasha also participated as a contestant in The Weakest Link Britain Get Singing and CelebAbility.

Key Insights

  • Tasha Ghouri is a model, author, dancer, and TV personality with an estimated net worth of $4.4 million.
  • Tasha runs a podcast, Superpowers with Tasha, created in 2023.
  • She has also participated as a contestant in Strictly Come Dancing Season 20 in 2024, partnering Aljaž Škorjanec.

Tasha Ghouri’s parents are also Dancers.

Tasha Ghouri was born to Tarek Ghouri and Nicky Young. She also has a brother named Alexander and a step-sister Sienna.

Based on their surname, Tarek Ghouri has ancestors from India, while Nicky Young belongs to China. Also, Tasha has herself admitted that she is partly Indian.

 

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Though Tasha has not disclosed much about her parents, she has invited them on her podcast, Superpowers with Tasha, in 2023.

On the podcast, her parents shared their experience rating a deaf child and advised other parents on how to move to take care of hearing-disabled children.

In an interview in 2024, Tasha shared that she followed the choreography of her parents’ replica of the Steps album Gold: Greatest Hits.

This means her parents are good dancers who motivated Tasha to pursue a dancing career.

A fellow Love Island UK contestant, Bobby Johnson, has Jamaican ethnicity.

Just So You Know

  • Tasha Ghouri has written two books: Hits Different and Your Super Power.
  • She appeared as a Dictionary Corner guest on Countdown for a week in early 2024.
  • Tasha went viral for her video entitled Get Ready With Me on TikTok.
  • Tasha was born deaf and had to wear a hearing machine and take speech therapy in her teenage.

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