When I saw the name of a former Love Island contestant trending on Twitter, my first thought was that he had launched a clothing line or been pictured drunk outside a nightclub. I clicked on the link thinking, ‘This will be entertaining,’ and almost immediately, as the news story flashed up on my screen, I was confronted with the brutal sadness of what had actually happened. Mike Thalassitis, who took part in the 2017 series of the hit ITV reality show, had been found dead in woods near his home. He was 26. Later, it emerged he had ended his own life.