It's called Love Island guys, why are all the couples from this year splitting up literally days after they've left the villa?
Just days after they were dumped Catherine Agbaje and Elom Alijah-Wilson confirmed they had gone their separate ways and then another Love Island 2023 duo joined the graveyard of couples who were never to be - Leah Taylor and Montel McKenzie.
Now Montel has spoken out about those cheating rumours following Leah's shady statement - more on that in a sec.
On TikTok, he said, "First of all, they are just rumours. People are saying I cheated on Leah twice, etc. I can confirm I’ve never, ever cheated on her, I would never do that.
"I think if you hear the way I speak about her, you would know that I’d be stupid, I would not do that.”
He went on to explain that Leah's comments came from a photo taken of Montel and a few other Islanders at an event where Leah wasn’t in attendance.
In the photo, Montel can be seen behind Tink Reading, who he previously shared a kiss with during Casa Amor.
“Basically, she wasn’t happy with how the people were positioned in the picture. She said it made her feel a type of way. She wasn’t happy, it made her feel stupid, etc. Which I do understand because obviously something previously has happened, I get it.”
He then hammered the point home by insisting that he never cheated on Leah.
“Anyone who was at the event can confirm nothing ever happened, nothing would happen. I didn’t personally do anything, didn’t sleep with anyone, wasn’t DMing anyone, it wasn’t anything like this.”
Montel speaking out comes after Leah offered up a rather, ahem, interesting statement regarding the end of their romance to Goss.ie.
By interesting we mean shady AF.
"I know I’m someone who has very, very high standards, but I feel like there’s just certain things in people that I’m not able to overlook," she said.
Of course we all know that during Casa Amor, Montel got it on with Tink but it looked as though that was water under the bridge seeing as Leah and Montel were very much back on track before leaving Love Island.
Leah continued, "I feel like life is a lot different in [the villa] and outside here. A lot more things come up and different situations happen.
"Once we’d spoken about it, we agreed that it’s not how we thought it would be."
Hmm.
Montel previously chatted to Love Island 2021 finalist, Toby Aromolaran, on his Fancy a Chat podcast and opened up about being 'banned' from kissing.
Now, it's not clear whether it was Leah or the producers that banned the semi-pro footballer from necking on but we THINK it was to do with him snogging Tink on the Terrace. Whoops.
When Toby brought up 'Redemption Night' - AKA Montel confessing his adoration for Leah in front of all the other Islanders and a million viewers - Montel admitted.
"I was on a kissing ban as well," before continuing, "And after Movie Night I was on a talking ban because she [Leah] needed time to speak so I couldn't speak to her."
Toby needed some clarification around what the hell Montel is doing on about and asked, "Wait, so you're on a talking ban and a kissing ban? For how long?"
"The kissing ban was from when she came back, so I think it lasted about a week or five or six days and the talking ban was just after Movie Night.
"Once I did the speech the ban got lifted."
Well he's definitely on a kissing ban with Leah now and it looks as though he'll be on one until the end of time.