"Love Island" contestant Rykard Jenkins' image was used on the internet by Trump campaigners without his permission.

A fan from California sent him the doctored photo, which was being used on a website called Conservative News Daily. His face appeared alongside many others wearing red hats embroidered with "President Trump 2020 Make America Great."

Jenkins tweeted the before-and-after images with the caption: "Woke up this morning to know I'm the new face for the 2020 @realDonaldTrump campaign?"

The tweet swiftly went viral, but he told Insider "it caused that massive controversy for someone like me who's not at all involved in politics let alone American politics."

"I made a joke and I got a good 5,000 Americans saying 'how can you say that?' and I was like, oh my god, I didn't think it would go anywhere and now it's this massive political conspiracy."

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Former "Love Island" contestant Rykard Jenkins was taken aback when he was sent a photo of himself from a fan in California.

What Jenkins saw was a picture from his own Instagram, but it had been edited to make it look like he was wearing a Trump 2020 hat.

"Woke up this morning to know I'm the new face for the 2020 @realDonaldTrump campaign?" he wrote on Twitter, sharing the original and the doctored images.

"I was just really surprised, like oh my gosh," Jenkins told Insider. Speaking of the fan who sent him the image, he added: "By the time I put it on Twitter, because I was quite taken aback, people were like 'where's it from?' and she managed to send me the link from the campaign for Trump."

The website, which calls itself Conservative News Daily, consists of a page of many people wearing red caps embroidered with "President Trump 2020 Make America Great." It's unclear whether any of the images are actually genuine.

Jenkins' tweet has now been liked nearly 63,000 times, retweeted nearly 18,000 times and has garnered more than 2,000 comments.

However, not all of the comments have been positive. Some people have criticized him for making light of the situation, while others took the photos so seriously they suggested he should sue Donald Trump.

"Then it caused that massive controversy for someone like me who's not at all involved in politics let alone American politics," Jenkins said. "I made a joke and I got a good 5,000 americans saying 'how can you say that?' and I was like, oh my god, I didn't think it would go anywhere and now it's this massive political conspiracy."

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He said whoever runs the site must have just searched the internet for red hats and used any images Google came up with.

He has a problem with his photo being used without his consent, he said, but he's mainly concerned about the political connotations.

"The only thing I could complain about, it's about altering the pictures and making them look like they have a political agenda," Jenkins said. "For example, if that picture had been edited to have Gucci on it, it wouldn't matter would it?"

He added that something positive has come from the situation, however, because underneath his viral tweet he posted a link to a PETA campaign about ending the slaughter of dolphins and whales off the coast of Denmark.

The tweet has been shared nearly 2,000 times, and Jenkins hopes the petition might have garnered the attention of some celebrities to spread the cause further, because otherwise "I'm just someone from 'Love Island' being told to sue the president of the US. It's a bit of a long shot."

"It's quite funny because I had an audition for a TV show in America and they said 'why do you want to do it?' and I said I would be so good on the show [that] Trump would tweet about me," he added. "And now the Trump campaign has used my face to try and sell hats so it's kind of gone full circle."