Why is Love Island’s Ron Hall blind in one eye? Here’s everything we know about the sports injury

Ron Hall, who is blind in his right eye, joined the Love Island All Stars season two cast on Sunday as one of the gorgeous bombshells sent by producers to shake things up.

We first laid eyes on Ron when he featured on season nine of Love Island in 2023 with Samie Elishi, Tom Clare, and his All Stars brother Casey O’Gorman. After some major ups and downs with Lana Jenkins, they left the villa in second place. Obviously, they split up a few months after – hence Ron’s involvement in All Stars.

Ron made history in 2023 as the show’s first-ever visually impaired Islander, but how did he lose sight in his eye?

Ron lost sight in one eye after a football injury

Though Ron was recently caught lying about his relationship history, he’s always been incredibly open and candid about the experience of losing his sight in one eye. In fact, it was basically one of the first things he said during his first Love Island confessional.

Ron lost his eyesight following a football injury at the age of eight, telling Metro in 2023: “I was in a match and the ball basically came over, I went down to head the ball, and he went up with his foot and basically knocked me out, detached my retina.

“I went to the hospital the next day, they said it was a detached retina and it should be fine. I had a load of operations, I don’t know what happened with it all but it became very severe and the operations weren’t working, we didn’t pick it up quick enough.”

He reckons he had up to 12 operations

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Further opening up about going under the knife, he told the publication: “I can’t even remember how many operations I had between a year and two years, probably 10, 12 plus. I’ve got a silicone wheel in the back of it, I’ve got a buckle in the back as well. By operation six or seven, they were like, ‘Look, you’re not going to get your sight back’, so for me it was about making it look as normal as possible.”

Ron also grappled with a great deal of pain, though miraculously it just “stopped” when he was in his late teens and he was suddenly able to open his eye properly.

“Obviously I was a kid at the time, I didn’t really want pain but from the age of eight to 18, it was extremely painful. It was almost like someone was poking you in the eye all of the time,” he explained.

“But for some reason, and we have no idea why to this day when I was about 18 or 19 the pain just stopped. I could open my eye properly, I can look into the sun with no sunglasses and be absolutely fine, it doesn’t water.”

Despite the constant pain for so many years and reduced vision, Ron has always tried to remain positive by reminding himself that some people are in far worse positions.

“I always say there are so many people that are worse off than me, obviously, it’s a disability, right, we’re calling it what it is,” he noted. “But there are so many people worse off than me, it doesn’t impact me as much as someone else. So you have to look at the positive side of things.”

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