Exclusive Love Island’s Mimii Ngulube reveals why she felt bad for Joey Essex

Remember that whole 'secret mission' fiasco?

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by Eden-Olivia Lord |
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There's a reason Mimii Ngulube won the latest series of Love Island and it's because she's an actual babe.

Even though Joey Essex and Sean Stone didn't stop banging on about that 'secret mission' and Mimii and Ayo Odukoya's relationship, the Love Island 2024 winner has only gone and spoken out and revealed why she felt bad for the former TOWIE star.

During an exclusive chat with heatworld, Mimii reflected on the final dumping where all the Islanders returned and voted one couple out and admitted, "It was intense.

"I think it was a good opportunity for everyone to kind of air out how they're feeling about certain situations."

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joey and jessy were dumped just before the final ©ITV

She went on to add, "I felt bad for Joey because it wasn't nice to get a hit after hit, but I think it was left up in the air so everyone cleared up their situation and could move from that."

If you cast your mind back a few weeks you might remember that most of the Islanders (justice for Konnor Ewudzi tbh) returned to the villa and Joey and Jessy Potts bagged seven votes.

Savage.

To be fair, Joey did backtrack on his relationship with Samantha Kenny, kept suggesting that Grace Jackson wasn't over him and stirred the pot the entire time he was in the villa.

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So when we asked the Love Island winners how they feel about Joey after he admitted he'd 'switch it on' in the villa, Mimii said, "He did what he wanted to do what he needed to do, so that's left in there [the villa].

"I'm not thinking about that as much as I was in there, because obviously in there that's when I felt the most about it but now I'm out of it, it's like fair enough."

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mimii and josh spilled the tea to heatworld ©ITV

Josh Oyinsan added, "I don't know [if it felt like he was making good TV in the villa]. I wouldn't say I thought like that because the show is very real. Your emotions are very, very real.

"Obviously, it is a show at the end of the day but everything we displayed was very, very real. So we can only take it as he was being real. That's how we see it anyway."

Here's hoping Love Island producers pull another Love Island 2018 and have a reunion episode around Christmas...

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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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