Every year – well, twice a year now that ITVBe has decided to wreck our social lives for good – in the final days of Love Island, we're always (ALWAYS) left with one couple that seem a little, well... unmatched. A chalk and cheese/opposites attract/they never would've met in a million years if it weren't for Love Island kind of Love Island couple.
As a couple, they shouldn't work, but miraculously they do, and regardless of ALL the green flags being waved in front of our faces, we just can't help but wonder, what the heck do these two even talk about? And, of course, will it actually work on the outside?
Love Island 2023's mismatched couple is, obvs, Molly Marsh and Zach Noble.
She's a teeny social media influencer/musical theatre performer from Doncaster, and he's a giant basketball player/PT from South East London. It shouldn't work, but it seems to... and according to dumped Islanders Kady McDermott and Ouzy See, the rest of the Islanders are just as obsessed with the couple as we are.
Given her history with Zach and Molly, Kady was always going to be a fun one to quiz re the mismatched couple and she didn't disappoint when her and Ouzy popped into heat HQ to film an episode of our YouTube series, heat Dates, this week.
Our Harriet Rose jumped right in, asking the couple straight, just what the heck are Molly and Zach like together in the villa?
Ouzy answered first, saying, "[Molly and Zach] are another couple that are always glued to each other. In the villa, they're always together and in the pool."
A valid and fairly interesting statement, but it's hardly giving the tea we crave here at heat. Cue Kady McDermott, who interrupted with, "They don't speak... they're cuddling and kissing and so cute, they just don't speak."
So the answer is... nothing?
Kady went on to reveal that what Molly and Zach actually talk about was a seriously hot topic in the girls' dressing room. She told us, "We don't even know what they talk about."
What do Catherine and Elom think about Molly and Zach?
We put the same question to Catherine Agbaje and Elom Ahlijah-Wilson last week, and according to the Casa couple, what you see is what you get with these two.
Having spent days and days watching Zach and Molly's relationship blossom, we simply had to put the question to Catherine and Elom when they joined our Harriet Rose in the studio for an episode of heat Dates.
Elom took the plunge first, confirming, "Do you know what? Zach and Molly are strong.
"His mind was with Kady, but his heart's with Molly at the same time. He's trying to balance all of that. I feel like they'll power through it, one hundred percent."
Catherine added, "I think similar. From obviously coming in [and being coupled up with him], and then he liked Molly, blah, blah, blah...I've actually seen that they do really get along."
D'awww. Not the dramatic answer we were looking for, but certainly the wholesome answer we didn't know we needed.
Catherine went on to explain that Zach has got different vibes and love languages from all the girls he's connected with, stressing that the vibe with Molly is a more chilled/zen one, while Kady's was definitely more flirty.
Interesting...
As much as we're here for this, we just can't see Zach making regular cameos on Molly's cutesy TikToks – which we imagine is a requisite of being her bae.
Saying that, while talking more about Zach's personality, Catherine did reveal that we do have an utter fun-loving, joker on our hands, revealing, "Zach laughs at awkward moments. Even at the fire pit when we'd be doing our speeches he'd be laughing, as well."
So who knows, eh?