Love Island: ‘Messy’ Mitch labels Kady McDermott as ‘irrelevant’ as feud heats up

The Love Island 2023 Islanders have been feuding since leaving the villa

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If you've been keeping on top of your Love Island drama over the last year then you'll know there are Islander squabbles, fallouts and feuds and then there's whatever the heck is going on between Love Island 2023 stars 'Messy' Mitch Taylor and Kady McDermott.

It's a feud reigniting itself more times than those relighting birthday candles and even we're struggling to keep up now.

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Kady and Mitch in the Love Island 2023 villa

If you're not on top of this drama, we'll give you a super speedy recap, because let's just say the #dramz has peaked since Mitch was dumped from the All Stars villa earlier this week. Such an understatement.

Basically, when Love Island 2016 star 2023 star Kady was dumped from the villa last summer, she, erm, mentioned Mitch's name a fair few times in interviews and in true Kady style didn't hold back or apply a filter (we've always low-key loved her for that, we might add) – in fact, it happened during an episode of heat dates last summer.

Kady McDermott
Kady McDermott ©ITV

When Mitch was eventually dumped from the 2023 villa, he got his phone back and saw what Kady had been saying on podcasts and in interviews. Naturally, the messiest Islander in existence bit back HARD during his own press rounds, resulting in him and Kady coming for each other on socials for, well, ever.

The feud somewhat fizzled out towards the end of last year, but seemingly reignited when Kady started mentioning Mitch on her socials last month, while sharing her thoughts on All Stars. Once again, when Mitch got his phone back, he bit back hard.

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mitch Taylor ©itv

On Thursday 1 February, Mitch posted a now-deleted rant about Kady on his Instagram Story reacting to her recent comments about him and branding her as "irrelevant".

He wrote, "I'll address this and put it to be. IMO I didn't treat any girls wrong, it is the Love Island game, but because I have a rep for treating girls wrong on TV shows, irrelevant people (Kady) will respond with lies, she lied on all her podcasts about me."

He added, "Kady, stop talking about it's weird asf."

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Phwoar. WHO is going to clean up this mess?

Just before Mitch's now-deleted comments, Kady wrote on her Story, "Ugh just gonna address this quickly so I don't have to speak on it again. It's BORING.

"The whole of the UK are currently giving their opinions on the show and everyone on it but if I say one thing then omg noooo WW3 'Kady is speaking about me again'.

"So let's clear this up shall we. I spoke about Mitch on podcasts after season 10 when I was ASKED by the hosts about my opinions of him on the show, other then that I never speak about him off my own back cos quite frankly I don't give a sh*t as he doesn't ever cross my brain except when he's on a screen in front of me."

What happened between Mitch Taylor and Kady McDermott last year?

Well, as well as calling Kady out for allegedly having a secret boyfriend while she was in the villa (something she denies), Mitch visited us at heat HQ with Ella Barnes for a game of Who’s Most Likely To?

He gave us loads of backstage goss (come on, did you expect anything less from Messy Mitch?) as he dished the dirt on steamy unaired Scott van-der-Sluis and Abi Moores scenes (well, technically Ella B was responsible for that specific tea-spillage) and revealed which Islander has UNFOLLOWED him after the reunion.

Ella Barnes and Mitch Taylor leaving Love Island
Ella B and Mitch spoke out as they played Who's Most Likely To? with heat ©ITV Pictures

After they shared a war of words on social media and at the reunion – and following his secret boyfriend allegations – you probably wasn't surprised to learn that Kady unfollowed Mitch. Just hours prior to our interview with him, nonetheless.

When asked which 2023 contestant was most likely to unfollow one of their fellow Islanders, Mitch revealed, “Kady unfollowed me today. I wonder why?”

He continued, “I went on an interview yesterday and just retaliated to all the podcasts Kady had gone on and spoke about me and Ella being fake and our friends as well, so I retaliated.

“Kady didn’t like that and unfollowed me and obviously I unfollowed her, so…”

Kady McDermott returning from Casa Amor
Kady and Mitch have unfollowed each other after he claimed she had a secret boyfriend ©ITV Pictures

Ooh, awkward. We’re guessing Mitch was referring to the comments Kady made on heat Dates several weeks before when she told host Harriet Rose that his relationship with Ella B is “fake from both sides”.

“In the villa, we are with each other every second of every day. We know if there’s genuine connections or not [and] them two are faking it,” Kady explained.

She added, “Mitch is very smart. He’s studied every series of Love Island. He is a super fan of Love Island.

“He even said to me he wants to be a memorable character.”

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