It's 'new year, new me' season; well, not for us (we've already cancelled a gym membership and eaten a leftover advent calendar for breakfast), but it certainly is for those OG All Stars waiting in the wings for their spectacular return to the Love Island villa on Monday 13 January.
Whether they're returning for a second chance at love, to heal some old wounds or just to give their star power a little reboot, the stars of Love Island: All Stars are about to become all we talk about for a few weeks.
Naturally, with the clock ticking so aggressively the speculation is RIFE. All sorts of names are being thrown around from ten years of spectacular Love Island casts, but one name we've heard more than once is Love Island 2024 icon Harriett Blackmore.
Remember her? Of course you do – she feuded with Ciaran Davies, she FEUDED with Jess White and she galloped off into the sunset with bad boy Ronnie Vint WAY too early. What we would've given to see her in Casa Amor...
Whenever such a key player is booted from the show early on, the fandom tend to perk up, either demanding their return à la Molly Marsh or demanding they be signed for All Stars.
As Harriett never really returned last summer (apart from that iconic revenge episode with virtually all the Islanders), and she's now single after splitting from Ronnie, we're assuming All Stars producers have given her a call.
And our gut is saying she answered and said, 'Yes.' All speculation at this stage, of course, but a recent Instagram Story post of Harriett's has left us raising an eyebrow, as it teases a 'new chapter' and 'new chance' – just days before All Stars 2025 is set to launch, remember.
She shared a meme which read, '12 New Chapters. 365 New Chances.'
Harriett then captioned the post with three telling (in our eyes) emojis, '✨👼❤️.'
Okay, she might be posting this because it's the start of a new year and all, but we're heat, we read into things.
As we said, we won't know for sure until our next batch of All Stars saunter into those villa doors in a few days time.
A few days... FFS. At least The Traitors is back on the box.
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Ben Pulsford is a digital writer for Bauer Media, writing for both Closer online and heatworld. When he's not getting paid to gossip about Big Brother, Love Island and The Real Housewives of Cheshire, he's storming the London LGBTQ+ scene as drag queen, Beary Poppins. Both Ben and Beary are awaiting an invite to join The Real Housewives of Cheshire for series 18. The budget's not there, but the drama is.