A former Love Island contestant has pleaded guilty after being charged as part of a £53million drug smuggling operation, which saw her smuggle cocaine from London’s Heathrow into Dubai.

London girl Magdalena Sadlo appeared on the Polish version of Love Island in 2021, in which she boasted about ‘stealing’ other women’s boyfriends and described herself as being a ‘spontaneous, self-confident blonde who you can count on’.

Well apparently she can’t be counted on to successfully smuggle cocaine into Dubai, and is now being held in custody before her sentencing at Carlisle Crown Court in October.

Described as one of the UK’s largest ever drug busts, 29-year-old Magdalena was arrested by police after returning to Heathrow from Dubai as part of an investigation codenamed Operation Matrix.

According to her LinkedIn page, prior to Love Island, Magdalena worked in sales, including at Ascot, before co-founding a luxury yacht rental company in Dubai at the beginning of 2024.

During her time on Love Island, she was put in Casa Amour and tasked with trying to lure male Islanders away from their partners, but was soon voted out by the public who didn’t really take a liking to her.

Earlier this year, nine men were given jail sentences totaling more than 106 years for their involvement in the £53m operation, and so Magdalena could be looking at a pretty harsh sentence. I almost feel bad for her because she’s clearly a naïve young woman who fell in with the wrong company, but there’s obviously poor judgment, greed and ego mixed in there as well.

Hopefully she’ll learn something from this, and should probably count her lucky stars that she was detained in London rather than Dubai. Every cloud and all that…

For the Love Island contestant that Leo DiCaprio broke his under-25s rule for, click HERE.