Details of the celebrities salries for Love Island 2006 have been leaked to the press this week.

The highest paid star is Sopie Anderton who will be getting £70,000, closely followed by Lady Victoria Hervey who is being paid £50,000.

Strictly Come Dancing star Brendan Cole is set to earn £40,000, Bianca Gascoigne has been offered £30,000, while Hollyoaks star Lee Ottway and former Boyzone singer Shane Lynch are earning £26,000.

Less well-known stars such as models Alicia Douvall and Colleen Shannon, Pierce Brosnan’s son Chris and singer Leo Ihenacho have signed £20,000 contracts.

According to The People, the contestants will be taxed twice on their earnings – once in Fiji and again in Britain.

“They are very angry,” a source explained. “Someone earning £25,000 can expect to take home around £12,000 after tax.”

Love Island contestant Shane Lynch shot to fame after joining irish boyband ‘Boyzone’ in the mid 1990s.

He is most famous for his drunken tirade at the MTV music awards in 1999 where he claimed rumours of Boyzone disbanding were “fucking shite”.

Shane was married to Eternal singer Esther Bennet for two years vefore they seperated in 2000.

Shane Lynch is no stranger to reality TV, having taken part in Channel 4’s ‘The Games’ in 2004.

The final list of celebrities(?) to take part in this years Love Island series have finally been released.

I can see why they took the word ‘celebrity’ out of the title this year. They should have named it..

“So someone in your family is famous, come and get a tropical shag”

The list is as follows, click on the name for more details on the star.

Lady Victoria Hervey
Sophie Anderton
Alicia Douvall
Colleen Shannon
Kelle Bryan
Bianca Gascoigne

Shane Lynch
Leo Ihenacho
Lee Otway
Brendan Cole
Chris Brosnan