The whole nation gasped last night (2 July 2025) when it was announced that Alima Gagigo would be leaving the Love Island villa.
We also gasped when we were sifting through Alima’s exit interview and she revealed which of her villa mates she believes is ‘misunderstood’ because SURELY NOT?
The series 12 OG Islander found herself in trouble when Conor Phillips, who she was in a friendship couple with, nominated himself to be matched with bombshell Billykiss Azeez.
Sadly, for the other newcomer, Ryan Bannister, nobody fancied coupling up with him which left him and Alima single and therefore both dumped from the villa.
Now that she is back in the real world, Alima is already chatting about her time on the dating show and lifting the lid on all her fellow Islanders.
‘I think Ben [Holbrough] is a very misunderstood guy,’ she declared, ‘he doesn’t express himself in the best way sometimes.’
We fear that that might the understatement of the century; his feud with Yasmin Pettet caused major controversy on social media after he declared her, ‘irrelevant'. Not only that, but Alima, Meg Moore and Shakira Khan all pied him during the Snog, Marry, Pie challenge, due to his mistreatment of the villa girlies.
‘In the villa, you could see there was a character development to him,’ she went on, ‘I think he calmed down a bit and apologised to all the girls he needed to apologise to, after everything that happened.’
We didn't see any of this 'character development' Alima speaks off and, correct us if we are wrong, but there was no apology aired.
‘There’s a softer side to him,’ she went on, ‘he's actually a very nice boy. He was there for me a lot in the villa, it’s a shame we didn’t get to explore things more.’
Surely we can all agree that we would love to see Ben's softer side on the show; we are just hoping he doesn't claim that another girl needs to be 'humbled' because we are still struggling to move on from that one...
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Emily Vierke is a digital writer who has dabbled in the world of celeb, beauty and fashion. She enjoys stalking Love Island girlies Indiyah Polack and Matilda Draper for outfit inspo nearly as much as she enjoys rewatching the clip of Maura Higgins confronting Tom Walker for gossiping about her to the Love Island lads.