- Warning: Major spoilers for "Love Island" UK season 10 finale.
- Fans across the globe have been coupling up with "Love Island" UK for 10 seasons.
- Here's what happened to all the winning couples after leaving the villa.
Jessica Hayes and Max Morley were the first winners of "Love Island" UK.
"Love Island" originally aired in 2005 and ran for two seasons with celebrity contestants.
However, in 2015, ITV revived the series, this time choosing members of the public to compete and find love. The show went on to become a massive success in the UK and spawned spinoffs across the world.
Jessica Hayes joined the show in the first episode, while Max Morley joined in week two. While the pair didn't couple up until week five, they ended up being popular enough to be voted as winners at the end of the show and claim the prize money.
Jessica and Max split after six weeks.
Hayes and Morley's romance didn't last long outside the villa, however.
They announced their split on Twitter 40 days after the end of season one.
Hayes later told The Sun that the pressure from management and fans, as well as cheating rumors surrounding Morley, impacted their relationship.
"It gives you major anxiety, and the trust wasn't there for me," she said.
Morley went on to date other "Love Island" stars including Zara Holland and Laura Anderson. He also appeared on the show "Ex on the Beach" in 2017, dating reality TV star Charlotte Crosby.
Morley has since kept his relationships private, only revealing on social media that he had a baby boy named Brooklyn with his partner in November 2021.
Meanwhile, Hayes began dating mechanic Dan Lawry in 2018. In 2019, Hayes and Lawry welcomed their first child, Presley, and got engaged.
However, they broke up in 2021, with Hayes telling New magazine that they "didn't want to be unhappy around Presley" and needed time apart from each other. The pair now co-parent Presley.
Hayes is currently engaged to a new partner, Zeb.
Cara De La Hoyde and Nathan Massey won "Love Island UK" in 2016.
Cara De La Hoyde and Nathan Massey are one of the two couples who have stuck together throughout the entire experience. They first paired up on day one of "Love Island UK" season two.
At the end of the season, they were rewarded for their dedication to each other with the season two crown and the prize money.
Cara and Nathan are now married and have two children.
While the pair split less than a year after the show ended, two months later, they announced that they were having a child together.
The baby seemed to have brought them closer, as by November 2017, a few weeks before the baby was due, the pair announced that they were back together.
Nathan later said on "Good Morning Britain" (via Manchester Evening News) that "we needed that space apart from each together to realise how much we loved each other."
The pair had their first child, Freddie, in December 2017. They married in 2019 and had a second child, Delilah, in 2020.
Amber Davies and Kem Cetinay were the third winning couple of "Love Island UK."
Amber Davies and Kem Cetinay both arrived on the first day of "Love Island UK" season three, but had a rocky journey before becoming winners at the end of the show.
Amber and Kem broke up four months after their season ended.
Davies and Cetinay broke up 132 days after leaving the villa.
"With sadness, we've decided to separate. Our schedules made it difficult. We'll remain good friends," the pair said in a December 2017 statement to The Sun.
Davies later said on ITV's "Lorraine" that she "used alcohol as a coping mechanism" following the split.
"You drink, drink, drink, you let your hair down and have fun, and I took about four steps back when I should have actually powered through. I'm such a moper," Davies said. "When I drink, the next day, I'm moping around, feeling sorry for myself."
Davies, who was a performer before appearing on "Love Island," eventually went back to West End theatre, starring in "9 to 5: The Musical," "Bring It On: The Musical" and "Back To The Future: The Musical." Later this year, she will also star in "Pretty Woman: The Musical."
Meanwhile, Cetinay, who was a barber before the show, went on to star in numerous UK reality competition shows such as "Celebrity MasterChef," "Weakest Link," and "Dancing on Ice." He finished in fourth place on the latter.
In 2021, Cetinay presented a TV show about mental health called "The Full Treatment" with "Love Island UK" 2019 winner Amber Gill. He also co-hosted the "Love Island" podcast "The Morning After" from 2018 until he was replaced this year.
Dani Dyer and Jack Fincham won the 2018 season of "Love Island UK."
Dani Dyer, the daughter of UK TV star Danny Dyer, and her partner Jack Fincham are another couple who stuck together throughout the show and ended up winning the 2018 series.
Dani and Jack broke up nine months later.
After a short-lived split in December 2018, the couple rekindled by the time their spinoff series, "Jack & Dani: Life After Love Island," aired in January 2019.
In April 2019, Fincham announced that the pair had split again, this time for good.
While Fincham did appear on "Celebs Go Dating" after his time in the villa, he's since switched careers to become a boxer.
In January 2020, Fincham welcomed a daughter Blossom with his ex-girlfriend Casey Ranger.
After "Love Island," Dyer continued to have a television career, even appearing on her father's hit soap, "Eastenders."
She also began dating an ex, Sammy Kimmence, and the pair welcomed son Santiago in 2021. However, the TV star dumped Kimmence after discovering he had been accused of defrauding pensioners. He was later convicted and sentenced to 3.5 years in jail in July 2021.
Dyer is currently dating West Ham footballer Jarrod Bowen. The pair welcomed twins in June 2023.
Amber Gill and Greg O'Shea were the winners of "Love Island UK" 2019.
While Amber Gill was one of the early arrivals on "Love Island UK" season five, Greg O'Shea arrived with only two weeks left until the season's end. However, their romance won out against Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury's, and they became the season five champions.
Amber and Greg broke up weeks after the season ended.
After five weeks, it was reported that O'Shea had dumped Gill over text. However, the rugby player has since denied the claim in an interview with the Daily Mail, saying that they were discussing their relationship over FaceTime when the story went out.
"I think she expected me to fight for it, but I had to be realistic and look at it as a proper relationship and not the Love Island winners," the Irish reality star said. "This was all on FaceTime, then I had to go to training, so I put my phone down and I came back after an hour and my phone was blowing up, an article was released 'Greg breaks up with Amber over text' – I couldn't believe it."
O'Shea said that Gill told him her management released the statement but "she didn't want it to happen."
O'Shea said he received death threats and lost 600,000 followers on Instagram. O'Shea has since focused on rugby and aims to play at the next Olympics with the Irish national team.
Since the show, Gill has become a successful influencer, landing brand deals and appearing on shows like "Loose Women" and "Saturday Night Takeaway." She also has a book deal with Mills & Boon to release romance novels.
As for her love life, Gill is currently dating Scottish footballer Jen Beattie after coming out last year.
Fans began speculating after Gill tweeted, "Switching teams was the best decision I made in my life" and "Watching men makes me feel ill. I couldn't put myself through it again."
She later said on FubarRadio's "Access All Areas" that it was an accident.
"Accidentally, I remember looking at it and thinking, shit, what have I said," she said. "Normally people have these lovely, beautiful stories and lovely, beautiful, real Instagram posts, like just lush. I've put switching teams on a tweet and that's how I came out."
Finn Tapp and Paige Turley won the first winter "Love Island UK."
In 2020, ITV introduced its first winter version of "Love Island UK," which aired from January to March and was filmed in Cape Town, South Africa, rather than the usual Mallorca location.
While Paige Turley joined the show on day one, Finn Tapp joined on day six. The pair quickly coupled up and stayed together until the end.
Finn and Paige just announced their breakup earlier this year.
In June 2020, the Mirror reported that Turley and Tapp had moved in together in Manchester during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Tapp told the Daily Mail in 2023 that the country-wide lockdowns helped their relationship.
"Covid helped us because we got to spend that time together without being pulled from pillar to post. We had a mad three weeks when we came out before lockdown and the quality time that you spend with each other is quite limited," he said. "So, I think a good bit of advice is to try and make sure everything that is happening around you doesn't affect you getting that quality time with whoever you come out with."
By April 2023, there were rumors that the pair had split and had moved out of their Manchester home.
Turley finally addressed the rumors while appearing on "Love Island: Aftersun" in June 2023.
"We're still really good friends," she told host Maya Jama. "I think we drifted apart. We did lockdown together and any and every struggle we could have faced, we were faced with."
Liam Reardon and Millie Court were crowned winners of summer "Love Island UK" when it returned in 2021.
Despite their brief conflict following the revelation that Liam had pursued another relationship in Casa Amor, Liam Reardon and Millie Court won 2021's summer "Love Island," proving that couples really can bounce back after Casa.
Liam and Millie broke up after dating for almost a year, but rumors swirled that they may have rekindled their romance.
Reardon and Court dated for almost a year before announcing that they had separated in July 2022.
At the time, Court told her fans via her Instagram Story: "Nothing will ever take away from the amazing experience we shared in 'Love Island' and the past year and I wish Liam all the best in everything he does. We're both ready for new chapters and I'm excited for what's next."
In his December 2022 appearance on "Celebs Go Dating," Reardon said he decided to end things so that he could "find myself again."
"If we're going to be together for me to love her, I need to love myself and the past few months have been a bit... you know..." he said.
However, in 2023, rumors sparked that the pair may have rekindled their romance.
Reardon has denied that he and Court are anything more than friends, telling the Daily Mail in June: "We are friends for now… we are just very good friends. If we were ever to get back together in the future, then yes potentially we will share it with our fans, we will have to see."
However, he later told The Sun that public pressures caused them to split the first time.
"One of the reasons we went our separate ways was because our relationship was so public and so many people felt like they were involved, just sticking their noses in," the reality star said. "That was mentally quite draining and it takes a toll on your relationship. If we didn't post a photo together for three or four days, people would be messaging or there'd be articles that we'd split."
He added: "Not saying we're back together... but if we were back together, that's why we're keeping it quiet. But look, people know and people will believe what they want to believe and that's fine. We're just taking things slowly."
Davide Sanclimenti and Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu won "Love Island UK" 2022.
Davide Sanclimenti and Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu had a difficult journey on "Love Island UK" 2022, cementing their relationship halfway through the season before winning at the end.
Davide and Ekin-Su announced their split in July 2023.
After winning "Love Island" season ten, the popular couple announced on social media that they were moving in together and later filmed their own reality series, "Ekin-Su and Davide: Homecomings," which aired on ITV in November.
Cülcüloğlu also went on "Dancing On Ice" 2023, coming in third place.
But despite many public outings together as a couple in recent months, the pair announced their split in July 2023.
"I am grateful for the memories and opportunities we shared together and I wish her nothing but the best," Sanclimenti wrote on his Instagram Story. "I would like for everybody to respect this decision during this difficult time. I will continue to support Ekin in any way possible."
He later added that the pair agreed to make an announcement at the same time, but Cülcüloğlu pulled out.
He said: "Since the relationship has been on the rocks for months and parting ways has been a long time coming, I ultimately decided to go ahead with it rather than keeping on dragging a situation [out] that became unhealthy for both of us."
Cülcüloğlu later said on her own Instagram Story: "Hi everyone, I thought it was time to come back online to thank you so much for all of your messages over the past 2-weeks. It has shown me what a kind, supportive, strong community I have behind me."
She continued: "I took some much needed time away with my family which has been really special but now it's time to realign & get back to work. I have such an exciting year ahead & I want to fully focus on that. I really appreciate your ongoing support. Thank you for cheering me on. Ekin x"
Kai Fagan and Sanam Harrinanan won the second year of winter "Love Island UK."
In early 2023, Kai Fagan & Sanam Harrinanan took the winning prize at the second winter "Love Island UK." While Fagan had been on the show since the first day, Harrinanan joined in Casa Amor. However, the pair instantly connected and stuck together to the end of the show.
Harrinanan is the first Casa Amor bombshell to be in the winning couple.
The pair appear to still be together.
The pair were last spotted together at the "Joyride" UK premiere on July 26, indicating they are still going strong.
Earlier this month, the couple revealed on their new joint YouTube channel that they had moved in together.
The winners of summer "Love Island" 2023 are Sammy Root and Jess Harding.
Sammy Root and Jess Harding were crowned the winners of "Love Island" season 10 earlier this week.
The pair both joined within the first week of the season, with Root coming in as a bombshell. During Casa Amor, Root strayed from his relationship with Harding and coupled up with Amber Wise.
However, Root said he realized he made the wrong decision when he saw Harding did not couple up with a new guy.
"When I saw you walking towards the fire pit on your own after Casa, I instantly knew that you were all that I wanted – my wandering eye turned into my eye for Jess," Root said in the finale.
The pair coupled up again and ended up winning the series.
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