It is beyond wild to think that Love Island 2023 took place two years ago; that means it's been two years since Mitch Taylor was dubbed 'Messy Mitch' by the entire internet, two years since Whitney Adebayo and Tyrique Hyde teased a promising musical double act that sadly never transpired, two years since Kady McDermott did an Adam Collard and made us realise that producers were now in the market for bringing back iconic Islanders and, of course, two years since the Battle of the Ellas.
Remember that? The iconic OG VS Bombshell battle between Ella Thomas and Ella Barnes over Tyrique's affections (a battle that Ella T declared wasn't even a battle because there was only one clear victor from the start – ooft)?
Ella B might've only been in the 2023 villa for just over two weeks, but in that time she managed to make a name for herself for the confident moves she put on Tyrique before she'd even used the villa loo and, of course, for cleaning up Messy Mitch – well, for a few weeks anyway.
Ella has all the qualities of a future Love Island: All Stars contestant, to be honest, but as she's now dating Gemma Owen's ex, footballer Neil Farrugia, that's unlikely to happen any time soon.
Nevertheless, she's a Love Island legend in her own right and for that reason we still keep a close eye on the blonde bombshell's movements and her socials two years on.
Oh, did we say blonde? Scrap that. This bombshell brought our daily feed scrolling to an abrupt halt this morning when we clocked a video of the Islander sporting luscious brunette locks.
She captioned the video, 'I’ve gone brunette!!! 🥹💇🏽♀️🤎.'
In the video (in which she genuinely looks like a completely different bombshell) she told her followers, 'I've gone brunette and I'm literally obsessed. I've ditched the blonde after five years and gone back to my natural hair colour.'
Ella continued, 'This is my natural hair and I've stripped it back and dyed it brunette and I'm actually surprised [that it's in such] good condition considering I've been bleaching my hair for so long. I did add a few highlights because, you know, it is summer.'
Ella arrived in the villa after Casa Amor and quickly mentioned that she knew Tyrique before the show. She then took a liking to Mitch and his head instantly turned.
They recoupled and had some drama with Abi Moores, but it all worked out in the end. Ella and Mitch were dumped together on day 56.