It wasn’t long after entering the winter Love Island villa that winner (alongside then boyfriend Finn Tapp) Paige Turley let slip about her famous ex-boyfriend Lewis Capaldi as the Islanders played the ‘Spill The Tea’ challenge.
Paige and Lewis dated for a year after meeting at college in Motherwell and it was even rumoured that his number one single Someone You Loved was written about her.
Lewis put an end to the speculation when he revealed the song was actually inspired by his late grandmother, but the 23-year-old singer did clarify which song was written about Paige soon after...
According to The Sun, around the time Paige was starring on winter Love Island, Lewis told a crowd at a gig at London's Seven Dials Market that his song Hold Me While You Wait was about a relationship he thought 'was going well, and the lady has different ideas.'
He added, 'She thinks it's going horribly and then she leaves, and you're quite sad about it, and you write an album about it.
'And then she ends up going on Love Island.'
Lewis then joked, 'For the record, I hope my ex-girlfriend wins Love Island. Not bitter.”
Turns out Paige did win the show in 2020 and fun fact, the Scottish Islander and Finn were the first official couple in the villa.
Finn stayed loyal to Paige during Casa Amor, despite the arrival of six brand-new bombshells, and asked her to be his girlfriend after returning to the main villa.
Speaking about Lewis before entering the villa, Paige said, 'Lewis Capaldi is my ex-boyfriend.
We went out when we were younger, I was about 17 or 18. We were together for about a year. It ended really amicably and we’re still pals.'
Revealing how his past relationship inspired his music, Lewis told The Sun, 'I met a lady. She was very nice. I loved her. I loved the look of her and I loved how she spoke.
'We dated for a year-and-a-half, then she left me. Then I wrote an album about it and I still think about it every day.'
Paige and Finn dated for three years, before announcing their split in 2023, coming head-to-head on Celebrity Ex on the Beach in 2024.
Sadly it wasn't the reunion fans had hoped for and they're still very much NOT a couple.