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Soccer Player Goes to South Africa for ‘Love Island’ Reality Show Without Telling Team

Oxford City FC will be down a defender when it takes on Braintree Town on Saturday. That’s because Finn Tapp flew off to South Africa to compete on the British reality show “Love Island”—and didn’t tell anybody at the club.

Tapp, 20, was one of two guys introduced to the show on Wednesday to spice things up. The premise of the show is that a bunch of men and women share a space in some tropical locale and are supposed to couple up with each other. Anybody without a mate gets kicked out. The last couple standing gets £50,000.