Anton Danyluk
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{{Short description|Scottish television personality and fitness influencer (born 1994)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Anton Danyluk
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1994|9|7|df=y}}
| birth_place = Blackridge, West Lothian, Scotland
| occupation = {{hlist|Television personality|fitness influencer}}
| television = Love Island
Anton Danyluk on Body Shame
Love Island: All-Stars
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Anton Danyluk (born 7 September 1994) is a Scottish television personality and fitness influencer, known for appearing as a contestant on the fifth series of Love Island in 2019. Following his exit from the show, he became a bodybuilder and fronted a BBC documentary Anton Danyluk on Body Shame in 2023. In 2024, he returned for the spin-off Love Island: All-Stars.
Life and career
Anton Danyluk was born on 7 September 1994 in Blackridge, West Lothian.{{cite web |title=Anton Danyluk: Love Island All Stars contestant's age, past relationships and Instagram revealed |url=https://www.heart.co.uk/showbiz/tv-movies/anton-danyluk-age-past-relationships-instagram-love-island/ |website=Heart |access-date=22 January 2024}}{{cite web |title=Love Island All Stars' Anton Danyluk: Age, Ex-Girlfriends And What Happened On Series Five |url=https://www.capitalfm.com/news/love-island-anton-danyluk-age-ex-girlfriends-series-5/ |website=Capital |access-date=22 January 2024}} At the time of appearing on television, he ran his own gym and worked as a fitness influencer.{{cite web |title=Anton Danyluk: Everything we know about Scotland's first male Love Island star |url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/anton-danyluk-everything-we-know-about-scotlands-first-male-love-island-star-545986 |website=The Scotsman |access-date=22 January 2024}} In June 2019, Danyluk became a contestant on the fifth series of Love Island. He entered the villa on Day 1 and was dumped on Day 56 alongside Belle Hassan, two days before the final.{{cite web |title=Love Island fans aren't happy about who got dumped from the villa last night |url=https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/a28533627/love-island-fans-are-sad-anton-not-in-final/ |website=Cosmopolitan |access-date=22 January 2024}} Following their exit from the villa, they entered a relationship and appeared on a Love Island special of the ITV2 game show Supermarket Sweep together.{{cite web |title=Love Island exes Anton and Belle have very awkward appearance on Supermarket Sweep |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a29081670/love-island-anton-belle-supermarket-sweep/ |website=Digital Spy |access-date=23 January 2024}} They split in September 2019.{{cite web |title=Love Island’s Belle Hassan breaks silence after split from Anton Danyluk |url=https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/a28935299/love-island-anton-danyluk-belle-hassan-split-breaks-silence/ |website=Cosmopolitan |access-date=22 January 2024}}{{cite web |title=Love Island’s Anton Doesn’t Speak To The 2019 Cast As They’re ‘So Far Up Their Own Arses It’s Unbelievable’ |url=https://graziadaily.co.uk/celebrity/news/anton-danyluk-love-island-2019/ |website=Grazia |access-date=22 January 2024}}
Danyluk announced he was training to become a professional bodybuilder in 2021, and the following year he finished in third place in a bodybuilding contest.{{cite web |title=Former Love Island contestant Anton Danyluk gives up drinking and reality tv to become bodybuilder |url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/former-love-island-contestant-anton-25186484 |website=Daily Record |access-date=22 January 2024}}{{cite web |title=Love Island's Anton Danyluk unrecognisable as he bags third place in bodybuilder contest |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/love-islands-anton-danyluk-unrecognisable-28193304 |website=Daily Mirror |access-date=22 January 2024}} In 2023, Danyluk announced his retirement from bodybuilding after stating it was the "worst [he had] ever felt".{{cite web |title=Love Island's Anton Danyluk claims co-stars are "so far up their arses it's unbelievable" |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a37091369/love-island-anton-danyluk-co-stars-so-far-up-arses/ |access-date=22 January 2024}} He subsequently went on to front a documentary for the BBC titled Anton Danyluk on Bodyshame.{{cite web |title=Anton Danyluk on Bodyshame |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001m2y1 |website=BBC |access-date=22 January 2024}} In January 2024, Danyluk returned to Love Island villa to compete in the spin-off Love Island: All-Stars. He entered the villa as an original Islander on Day 1, and finished in fifth place alongside Georgia Harrison during the final.{{Cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/reality-tv/love-island-series-5-cast-anton-danyluk/|title=Who is Anton Danyluk? Love Island: All Stars 2024 contestant|website=Radio Times}}
Filmography
References
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Category:Love Island (2015 TV series) contestants