This year’s Love Island finalists are officially back home, but it’s safe to say their lives are definitely not going to return to normal. Quite the opposite, in fact, the top three Love Island 2025 couples have been attending press events, popping up on daytime TV shows and doing radio interviews ever since leaving the villa.
Fans have been having their say on the absolute chaos that took place in Mallorca over the past eight weeks and now the Islanders can finally give their two pence on what went down in the villa.
Take Harry Cooksley, for example, he found himself at the centre of A LOT of Palma drama and at the ITV Reality launch earlier today (Friday 8 August), he addressed the ‘villain’ edit he received amid his love triangle with Shakira Khan and Helena Ford.
‘I think I’ve taken to the lovable villain. I don’t mind that, but honestly the support’s been incredible,’ Harry said.
He added, ‘I didn’t think it would be like this at all. I’m extremely grateful for all the support I’ve had.’
As for how he’s adjusting to returning to the outside world, Harry added, ‘For Shakira and I, and Toni, all we’ve known is villa life for eight weeks, so it’s like we adjusted to go into the villa.
‘It was so different, and now coming back, it’s just completely different again. Loving the experience.’
After leaving the villa, Harry did admit that he had some regrets about the way he’d handled things in the villa. He explained, ‘I definitely regret some of the ways I handled a lot of situations. I think I have learned from them.
‘The main thing was not following my heart when I knew I should have. And not having more time together as a couple [with Shakira].’
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Nathan Katnoria is heat and Closer online’s senior digital writer. He became obsessed with Love Island when Malin Andersson came back to confront Terry Walsh in series two and hasn’t looked back since. When he’s not interviewing former Islanders, Nathan is scrolling through their Instagram feeds for relationship updates and piping hot tea.