It’s very rare these days that a Love Island contestant arrives on the show without a connection to a former Islander.
Just take the Love Island 2025 cast for example, Dejon Noel-Williams is pals with Love Island 2023’s Tyrique Hyde, Megan Forte Clarke used to work with Love Island 2024and All Stars’ Harriett Blackmore and Sophie Lee used to date a Casa Amor bombshell.
Yep, following his split from Kady McDermott, bombshell boy Ouzy See dated the motivational speaker and author from Manchester and the pair even made their red carpet debut at The Beauty Awards 2023.
Now that Sophie has been confirmed as one of this year’s Islanders, Ouzy’s reported reaction to the news has been revealed and let’s just say this series could be a very awkward watch for him.
‘Ouzy was really shocked and blindsided to see Sophie had signed up for Love Island,’ a source told The Sun.
‘He was gutted because he feels like there is still unfinished business between the two of them.’
They added, ‘While they aren’t dating anymore, he thinks she’s an amazing girl and they ended on good terms.
‘It’s weird for anyone though knowing your ex is about to go on Love Island and could fall for someone else on TV.’
Speaking about Sophie back in November 2023, Ouzy gushed, ‘She's inspirational.’
‘We've been dating for a few months,’ he continued to The Sun.
Sophie added, ‘He's really kind, that's my favourite thing about him.’
It was first revealed that Sophie, who suffered life-changing burns in 2018 during a fire breathing accident, was entering the villa last week.
Ahead of her show debut, Sophie revealed she’s looking for ‘someone who is fun, spontaneous, who has a lot of jokes and who is attentive.’
She added, ‘At the moment I’m only finding ones draped in red flags and ‘do not cross’ signs.’
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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.