Ep.60 "I was pushed to the side": Tasha Ghouri on her mission for a more accessible world

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4.4 • 738 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Tasha Ghouri is a television personality, activist, dancer and model, most recognised for her stint on the 2022 Summer series of Love Island UK, with Tasha being the first deaf person to enter the Villa.

Referring to being deaf as her ‘Superpower’, Tasha was born deaf - with her parents identifying her disability when she was just 12 months old - and wears a cochlear implant in her right ear. She launched her own podcast ‘Superpowers with Tasha’’ in February 2023, which focuses on normalising disabilities and explores what once made her feel like an outcast now being her greatest source of strength and community.

Following her exit from Villa and over the last two years, Tasha became the first ever pre-loved brand ambassador for eBay and worked with the likes of brand ambassador for Ann Summers, Loreal Paris, and Essie. In 2021, she was praised for an ASOS campaign where she modelled for ASOS’ earrings wearing the implant and became a figurehead in the deaf community. I’m really looking forward to sitting down with Tasha today to talk about her time during the filming of Love Island, but also to explore life after leaving the Villa; whether the Love Island bubble has truly burst and her work to normalise her differences throughout everything that she does.

- Tasha's early life

- The story behind Tasha's cochlear implant

- Tasha reveals her struggle being deaf at school

- Why it is essential that schools become accessible

- Why Tasha nearly didn't go on Love Island

- Tasha shares how accessible the Love Island villa is

- Tasha reveals behind the scenes of her first day on Love Island

- Tasha's experience with the Love Island psych team

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0:32.3	For my mum and dad, they did say to me, you are going to get 12s. But I thought, you know what?
0:36.2	There's no representation on TV and I wanted to change that.
0:38.9	I get concentration fatigue, like a lot of deaf people struggle within, lip reading all the time, your brain overwork.
0:44.4	I'll get headache, migraines.
0:46.0	I was just so exhausted.
0:47.4	Every day, I'd been napping on the balcony for about two hours while the girl's getting ready. When you were a baby, your parents found out that you were
0:56.1	deaf because I wasn't sponding to, like, squeaky toys. They took me to the hospital and
1:00.1	when they said, okay, she's deaf in both ears. I couldn't speak until I was five. I didn't have that
1:04.9	support in terms of, I was kind of pushed to the side in a classroom. They put me at the back of class.
1:10.4	Teachers would turn away from me and I'd like miss out and probably like
1:13.6	important bit of notes.
1:14.6	There were times where I literally would go home and like, I'd just cry.
1:17.6	That's so weird.
1:18.6	Is it not then awkward?
1:20.6	No.
1:21.6	What is that, guys, and welcome back to the podcast.
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