It’s only been 24 hours since Love Island bosses confirmed that Olivia Hawkins would be returning for All Stars – and she’s not even stepping foot into the villa for another few days – but the winter Love Island 2023 star has somehow already found herself embroiled in some serious drama.
If you cast your minds back to last summer when Love Island 2024 was on, you might remember Olivia feuding with Diamanté Laiva after the Casa Amor bombshell branded fellow 2024 Islander Jess White a ‘bully’ in a radio interview.
Olivia then waded into the row and called out Diamanté’s ‘disgusting’ comments, with the pair trading a number of indirect digs online and Diamanté even allegedly confronting Liv at an influencer event before blocking her on social media.
Fast forward to the present day and the feud is apparently still rumbling on as Diamanté has reportedly taken legal action to prevent Olivia talking about her in the All Stars villa.
A source has claimed that Olivia won’t be able to mention Diamanté on the show as the business owner turned reality star sent a cease and desist letter after receiving trolling over their dispute.
‘Diamanté decided to take legal action to address the situation and put an end to the row. She requested that they cease publishing content related to her,’ they revealed to The Sun.
‘A formal cease-and-desist letter was sent to their team that week. Since then, they both agreed to move on and not engage with one another further. Things have been quiet ever since.’
Olivia and Diamanté’s representatives have been contacted for comment.
The feud stems from last year’s Love Island Casa Amor recoupling when Jess accused Diamanté of laughing when Uma Jammeh learned that Wil Anderson had been cracking on with Lucy Graybill while she was in the second villa.
Diamanté insisted she wasn’t laughing at Uma’s misfortune and claimed that Jess was being a hypocrite, branding her a ‘bully’ and saying that she ‘needs to stop bullying people’.
At the time, Jess was still in the villa and therefore unable to defend herself against the accusations. Olivia spoke out on Jess’ behalf on her Instagram story, writing, 'Calling someone a "bully" on a big radio show can be so detrimental. There’s definitely better ways you can articulate yourself.
‘Jess and other Islanders don’t deserve the nasty comments they’re getting.
'Let’s not add fuel to the fire… especially someone who’s been on the show and knows how it can be coming out.'
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Nathan Katnoria is heat and Closer online’s senior digital writer. He became obsessed with Love Island when Malin Andersson came back to confront Terry Walsh in series two and hasn’t looked back since. When he’s not interviewing former Islanders, Nathan is scrolling through their Instagram feeds for relationship updates and piping hot tea.