Love Island’s Jessy Potts speaks out after Grace and Joey’s secret bombshell reunion

Grace and Joey secretly met up four months after Love Island 2024

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by Eden-Olivia Lord |
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The latest series on Love Island has been wild.

All Stars 2025 has seen Gabby Allen and Marcel Somerville reunite, Curtis Pritchard and Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu are officially a thing and Grace Jackson has spilled the tea on those rumours she dated footballer Marcus Rashford.

Not only did she speak about potentially becoming a WAG, but she also revealed that she'd reunited with Joey Essex and huns, we at heatworld had no blooming clue they'd secretly met up.

BUT, the plot thickens because Joey's ex Jessy Potts - who he left the villa with - has now spoken out about her friend and ex-boyfriend's secret reunion.

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grace and joey secretly reunited ©ITV

Sharing a video where Grace revealed that she'd secretly met up with Joey after the villa, Jessy wrote, 'Lol it's all coming out now isn't it 👀.'

Ohh tea.

Oddly enough, the last we heard Jessy and Grace were pals. Such good pals that they kept having to defend their friendship to Joey in the villa...

Hmm.

Also, Jessy and Joey split two months after the series 11 final but according to Grace, two months later he sent her a text message to reunite... Interesting.

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jessy didn't know about joey and grace's reunion ©ITV

It all came to light when Grace was speaking to Catherine Agbaje and Olivia Hawkins and she opened up about what really happened with footballer Marcus, 'We weren't dating but we were chatting a little bit. Yeah [we fancied each other] but it's difficult because he can't go out and go on a normal date...

'Then it kind of drifted. I think it went a bit weird when all the articles were coming out but I've known his brother since I was 17 so then he was like, "No worries, don't worry about it. He knows it's not you."

'But I think it changed the vibe a bit because everyone knew and there wasn't anything to know.'

Enter undercover journalist Olivia - we joke, but she'd be a great journo - who then asked Grace about Joey and whether they'd spoken since Love Island 2024.

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the girls getting the tea from grace ©ITV

'He reached out to me,' Grace explained.

'We didn't speak for like, four months and then he text me and was just like, "Can we speak?"'

Investigative journo Olivia then asked, 'Did you meet up?'

'Yeah. It was fine. It was a little bit I think because,' she began to explain before Olivia quizzed, 'Was it flirty?'

'Hmm. A little bit... When I saw his name on my phone I was like [shocked]. I really liked him and I think I'll always have a soft spot for him.'

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grace and joey together in the villa ©ITV

She added, 'I'll always care about him. It's amazing in here with him but then it's his outside life.'

Seriously, we were shook watching the episode because we know absolutely everything when it comes to the Islanders.

Ron Hall's real height? Yup, we know.

What really happened with Tina Stinnes and Casey O'Gorman during their stint on Made in Chelsea? We've got you covered.

We're even aware of Samantha Kenny's secret Hideaway scenes... Gosh imagine if Joey strutted back into the villa - make it happen please Love Island producers.

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Eden-Olivia is the deputy editor of heatworld and she’s worked in showbiz since 2016. She started watching Love Island in 2017 because of her job. However Montana Brown remaining unphased by absolutely everything kept her entertained and she’s watched every series since.

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