Kem Cetinay

About

Kemal Cetinay (born 25 April 1996) is an English media personality. He currently hosts The Capital Weekender on Capital and appeared on the ITV2 reality series Love Island, winning the show’s third series in 2017.

Kemal Cetinay was born on 25 April 1996 in Essex, the son of fashion lecturer Figen and pharmaceutical engineer Niyazi Cetinay. His parents are Turkish-Cypriot immigrants, with his mother hailing from Famagusta and his father being a native of Kyrenia. He has a brother named Izzy, who works in finance.

Cetinay began his career in the third series of the ITV2 reality series Love Island. He won the 2017 series and hosted the official Love Island: The Morning After podcast with Arielle Free from 2018 until 2022. During his time in the Love Island villa, Cetinay developed a bromance with fellow Islander Chris Hughes and the pair have starred in multiple formats together, including the ITV2 spin off show Straight Outta Love Island and Channel 4’s Celebrity Hunted for Stand Up to Cancer plus two series of ITV2’s challenge based entertainment game show You Vs. Chris & Kem.
Cetinay works with ITV’s This Morning as their entertainment presenter and after…