There is always some sort of controversy surrounding those Love Island stars of the moment, especially when it's a familiar face. Remember how EVERYONE claimed Kady McDermott had a boyfriend when she returned as a bombshell on Love Island 2023? Or how about when social media went into meltdown with the whole Georgia Harrison x Casey O'Gorman x granddad fiasco? What a time to be alive. Pun not intended.
Well, when the line up for Love Island: All Stars 2025 was announced, viewers had THOUGHTS about a certain fish mongering Islander...
It turns out that die-hard fans of the dating show love to keep up to date with the lives of former contestants just as much as we do – wait, are they up to date with their romantic dalliances BECAUSE of us? Either way, people were pretty surprised to see Luca Bish in all his golden, glowy glory in South Africa, because wasn't he supposed to be dating some drop-dead gorge model?
In November, the Brighton boy was snapped spending some quality time with Giulia Ciancio which, if memories serves us well, is around the time he would have been in talks to appear on All Stars.
Giulia, who is a model and influencer signed by Select Models and has featured in a huge campaign for Guess has also been photographed for Elle magazine. Basically, she's beautiful and she's big time.
We reported on the romance at the time and just two months later Luca is making a home for himself in the South African villa eyeing up Gabby Allen.
Apparently, Luca and Guilia were never actually an item, despite the duo watching the Newcastle VS Arsenal football match together with The Sun reporting that, ‘Giulia was cheering his [Luca's] team on.'
But it turns out that we weren't the only ones confused by Luca and his Pinterest tattoos appearing on the dating show again as one fan even quizzed his sister about Luca not being single.
'Did Luca dump his girlfriend to go back in the villa??' A follower queried during an Instagram Q&A and we love it when you guys ask the questions so we don't have to.
'So many questions about this,' Claudia replied, 'so let's set the record straight as he's now in holding with no phone access. Luca has been very much single for the past two years - he went on one date a few months back and typically got pictured which is part of how the cookie crumbles in the public eye. It's quite literally as simple as that.'
That told us.
Who else has Luca Bish dated?
Gemma Owen
During his first time on Love Island 2022, Luca was coupled up with Gemma Owen. The duo made it to the final where they came in second place, losing out to Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Davide Sanclimenti.
Saffron Barker
Apparently before they were celebs, Luca dated Saffron Barker; they are both from Brighton after all.
The YouTuber spoke about her relationship she had with Luca revealing, 'we weren’t friends with benefits, but we didn’t quite get in a relationship.'
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Emily Vierke is a digital writer who has dabbled in the world of celeb, beauty and fashion. She enjoys stalking the Love Island girlies for outfit inspo nearly as much as she enjoys watching Jay Younger’s work out vids.