Love Island: Mimii Ngulube’s REAL name revealed – and we had no idea

Mimii's real name has come to light

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by Eden-Olivia Lord |
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We thought we knew everything there was to know about the Love Island lot.

Love Island 2024's Nicole Samuel is against all rugby boys except, well, her boyfriend Ciaran Davies who is a rugby boy.

Joey Essex knows every single bombshell who has entered the villa - there was Grace Jackson, then Casa Amor's Emma Milton and now newbie Lola Deluca.

Oh, and Mimii Ngulube's real name isn't Mimii at all.

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mimii's real name has come to light ©ITV

Her real name is in fact Michelle but she goes by Mimii as a nickname.

We completely missed it but it turns out she did mention it in the first episode (we literally rewatched it as we were writing this article).

She introduced herself as "Michelle, Mimii" to Ayo Odukoya.

While her real name hasn't been mentioned since, it turns out Mimii isn't the first Islander to go by their nickname.

During their date Joey Essex asked the question we all wanted to know, is Lolly Hart's real name Lolly? Turns out it's not, it's actually Lauren.

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lolly's real name is not actually lolly ©ITV

One of last year's Casa Amor babes was called Tink Reading and her real name is actually Aliayah.

And we'll never forget Chugg Wallis whose real name is in fact Oliver George Lee Wallis. He was barely in the Love Island 2021 after failing to win over Rachel Finni but then he was bizarrely in South Africa at the same time as All Stars earlier this year.

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chuggs was on series seven alongside chloe burrows ©ITV

Anyway back to Mimii, when we caught up with her BFF Uma Jammeh and Wil Anderson we just had to ask if they were team Ayo or Josh Oyinsan and their answer did disappoint because they played it too safe.

"I want for Mimii anything that makes her smile every single day. So whoever it is that makes her happy, I'm rooting for them and for her," Uma exclusively told us.

Wil added, "Yeah whatever makes her happy."

It looks like things are FINALLY over for Mimii and Ayo, so here's hoping she'll fall head over heels for Josh.

WATCH: Love Island's Wil and Uma speak out about Mimii and Sean

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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