Love Island's Amy Hart and Coronation Street’s Samia Longchambon team up to curb online trolling

Former ‘Love Island’ star Amy Hart and ‘Coronation Street’ actress Samia Longchambon have teamed up to curb trolling on social media.

The 30-year-old reality television personality and the 29-year-old actress - whose 'Corrie' character Maria Windass has been the subject of an online hate campaign - are working together to combine their reach to spread awareness of the impact of cruel comments on sites such as Twitter and Instagram, by discussing the toll it takes in a new video aired on ‘Lorraine’.

Speaking to Christine Lampard, the summer host of the ITV breakfast show, Amy said: “It’s good, me and Samia coming together. I think the ‘Coronation Street’ audience and maybe my platform are different platforms, so [the message] is getting out to a wider audience. People can watch it [the video], resonate with it and tell their friends not to do it.”

The ex flight attendant - who is now dating Sam Ranson, 33 - admitted it was "really full on” when she came out of the villa to a barrage of vile messages.

Amy said: “Before you go in [on 'Love Island'], they say to you, ‘You might get trolling online, how are you going to deal with that?’ And I used to say, ‘Well, I’ve been a cabin crew for nine years, anything that a passenger has said to me, a troll couldn’t say anything worse.’

“I remember I typed into Twitter, ‘Amy Hart’ when I first got out and it came up suggested searches - Amy Hart teeth, Amy Hart ugly, Amy Hart fat. It was really full on.”

Amy admitted the ITV2 dating show - on which she endured a brief romance with professional dancer Curtis Pritchard - was “so life changing”.

She said: “All the new Love Islanders are about to come out, it’s so life changing. They would have gone away weeks ago as a very normal person and their life will change. It’s an amazing time, but it’s also a real time of adjustment. So I’d say to people, ‘If you can just be nice, give them a bit of a break and don’t abuse them online, that’d be really helpful.’ "

When asked if she had any advice for the current contestants - who include Gemma Owen, the daughter of former footballer Michael Owen - Amy said: “The block button - take advantage of the aftercare from ITV. It was amazing and changed my life. Also the platforms have lots of settings with comment filters, if there’s something people keep saying, you can pop that word in and the comments won’t come up.”