‘Being the only mixed-race person on Virgin Island took me back to my childhood’

Marianne is one of the cast members on Virgin Island season 2 (Picture: Channel 4/Rob Parfitt)

When Virgin Island caused a ruckus last summer, it was called ‘exploitative’, a ‘public health danger’, and ‘a new low for Channel 4’.

For 26-year-old virgin Marianne, though, she saw hope. ‘When I watched it, I said, “Oh my god, this is something that could really help,”’ she tells Metro. 

Six months later, Marianne found herself on that Croatian island, being dragged out of the barriers that kept her deprived of sex and intimacy her whole life by world-leading sexologi...