It’s not unusual for Love Island stars to be connected to each other before they enter the villa, after all the producers seem to choose the contestants from a very small pool of semi-pro footballers, influencers and models, but we had no idea that one of this year’s couples had a connection in the outside world before they touched down in Mallorca.
Following her dumping, Love Island 2025 queen Megan Forte Clarke has revealed that Conor Phillips made a play for her IRL years prior to them getting together in the villa.
Sorry, what? We know it’s a small world, but we didn’t expect this…
Megan spilled the scalding hot tea when she swung by heat Towers earlier this week for an exclusive post-villa debrief.
She told us, ‘So on day one, Conor told me that he followed me on Instagram four years ago and I never followed him back.
‘But then since coming out, I've seen that he follows me on TikTok and he's actually commented on one of my TikToks. Again, I've not followed him back or even realised he commented on one.’
Megan added, ‘So yeah, it's nice that he's still trying four years later. It's worked out for me, I suppose.’
But although they sparked a strong connection and Conor even admitted he ‘looks at Megan like a girlfriend’, he decided to stay in the villa despite her no longer being there.
When asked how she feels about Conor not leaving with her, Megan said, ‘I kind of expected it. I didn't expect him to leave with me whatsoever because we'd only been properly with each other for a couple of days, so no pressure there.
‘But yeah, we'll see how he gets on now with the rest of it though. I might change my answer then.’
The OG Islander continued, ‘If Conor finds connection with someone else in the villa, that's fair enough, that's what everyone's there to do. I can't bash him for it, but it would be a shame because I did say I was going to wait for him.’
We’ve got everything crossed for you, hun.
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Nathan Katnoria is heat and Closer online’s senior digital writer. He became obsessed with Love Island when Malin Andersson came back to confront Terry Walsh in series two and hasn’t looked back since. When he’s not interviewing former Islanders, Nathan is scrolling through their Instagram feeds for relationship updates and piping hot tea.