There have always been rumours of a super confidential, secret squirrel holding villa that the Love Island contestants spend time in at some point whether it's before, after or even during their stint on the dating show.
In our mind it's a top secret undercover Love Island bunker with padlocks and steel doors, but after recently dumped couple Casey O'Gorman and Rosie Seabrook took to their Instagram stories, it looks like we were miles off.
Now that Casey and Rosie have their phones back, they've been posting their gorgeous faces all over social media. Both have already taken the opportunity to post on Instagram offering thank yous to their fans for all the support.
In both of their stories, the golden-haired duo are in a modern, neutral-toned villa, which is quite clearly the SAME PLACE. We present to you the classified Love Island crib.
Neither Casey or Rosie feature on each other's socials, but we imagine they are likely just in rooms next to each other posting the same message.
Over the years, we’ve unearthed a treasure trove of behind-the-scenes Love Island secrets, from what the winners really get given, what clothes they’re allowed to wear, to whether there are cameras in the toilets. There are, in case you were wondering.
But the gossip around the secret villa(s) is an absolute fave.
Dumped Islander Coco Lodge previously posted a picture of her chilling poolside with what looks like a cheeky Baileys (good girl) from inside an – until now – unseen villa. Coco referred to this villa as "the holding villa" - the secret villa dumped Islanders stay in for a day or two after being booted from the show. The photo has now vanished from the internet.
Could this be the Area 51 villa that Casey and Rosie are currently staying in? The plot thickens.
This got us thinking about the other secret properties ITV2 use over Love Island's two-month production schedule summer after summer.
Let's review what we know for sure: there is a main villa, which according to real estate guru Andrew Le Page is pricetagged at around €25million, there's Casa Amor and then there's some sort of holding villa where dumped Islanders can recuperate.
Coco isn't the first Islander to spill the tea on the secret holding Villa. In 2020, iconic Islander Joanna Chimonides from Love Island 2019 told Closer exactly what happens when you leave the show and confirmed what the legendary holding Villa is actually used for.
She confessed, "You leave and you have a chaperone - someone to stay with you.
"You get taken into another villa to get some sleep."
She added, "The good is thing when you see the press team they tell you what's been said and basically give you a heads up for when you leave."
Her fellow Love Island 2019 star Amy Hart has also spoken about what goes down in the holding villa in the past, revealing, "The press team come to see you, the producers come to see you to talk about your experience.
"The support is amazing and you have a phone call with Claire who is head of welfare and she sees you as soon as you get home.
"It's a Love Island family and past Islanders have been so supportive because they know what it's like."
Now, here's where things get interesting; legendary Islander Olivia Attwood, who was an iconic on the Love Island 2017 series, has also spoken out about a secret villa. Along with the main villa and the Casa Amor villa, Olivia revealed that the top four couples spend their last day in a third villa as the main one gets a makeover for the final.
Olivia told OK!, "The final day of the Villa like all the filming of the show is done, so you go to another villa nearby and you're kind of there for the day.”
"It's a completely different one to Casa Amor, a smaller one. It's basically a way to keep you out of the way."
She added, "You've kind of got the day off. You chill, you have the day together, you put music on and have a little BBQ."
The TV personality added, "Because in that time they're transforming the main Villa and putting in the stage and all the stuff they have to build. The whole Villa turns into a construction site.
"That's happening over those 24 hours.
"So that day you get ready and relax and film some pre-title stuff. Then it's the live final."