EXCLUSIVE: Love Island’s Samantha Kenny lifts the lid on Joey and Grace’s ‘connection’

Samantha was dumped from the villa after Joey and Grace recoupled

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by Eden-Olivia Lord |
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You know what, Love Island bosses owe some of these Islanders actual apologies.

Love Island 2024 has been absolutely brutal. Sam Taylor was dumped after 48 hours, producers have been slinging in past flings (remember when Uma Jammeh snogged Ronnie Vint IRL?) and we're still not over them sending in Joey Essex, let alone his ex-girlfriend Grace Jackson - leaving poor Samantha Kenny single and therefore dumped from the villa.

Just for Samantha, tbh.

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samantha and sam were OGS ©ITV

And after she called Grace a "slime ball" on Aftersun we just HAD to ask if she thinks Grace would recouple in Casa Amor.

FYI, we asked Samantha all this before newbie Jessy Potts went into the villa and Joey's head did a 180...

"I don't know whether Grace will stray," Samantha told heatworld in an exclusive interview.

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joey and grace dated before the show ©ITV

"I feel like she's not gonna get a connection as good as the one that she's got with Joey in Casa Amor.

"Those two are besotted with each other. So I feel like she'd be stupid to stray because he clearly does really really like her."

As we said, our chat with Samantha was before Joey revealed he had a "deeper" conversation with Jessy during their 20 minute date, than he had with Grace during the 12 days in the villa.

Ouch.

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joey flirting with jessy ©ITV

We reckon things could change dramatically any time soon because in tonight's Love Island, superstar Eve (aka Who's That Girl?) is heading in the villa and after the girls have a party, Nicole Samuel receives a text message and it's giving Love Island 2023.

Remember, last year's girls were partying it up with Neyo and taking pictures and out of nowhere a car arrived with Casa Amor on it...

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casa amor was LIT in 2024 ©ITV

Here's hoping Casa 2024 will be even more explosive than last year's. Ella Thomas returned with Ouzy See, Catherine Agbaje recoupled leaving Scott van-der-Sluis single and Molly Marsh reunited with Zac Noble leaving poor Kady McDermott single.

It was simply iconic.

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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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