Love Island is back on our screens for another long, hot summer, which means that it’s somehow been a year since Joey Essex caused chaos in the villa as the show’s first ever celebrity bombshell.
His antics meant that Love Island 2024 OG Samantha Kenny was dumped from the island way too early, leaving us devastated.
But although Sam didn’t find love in the villa, she’s exclusively revealed to heat that she’s seeing someone new in the outside world.
Talking about how Love Island has changed her dating life, she explained, ‘I think I’m definitely a little bit more cautious. I have been seeing someone recently.
‘I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone in the public eye, to be fair, and that’s the only people I tend to meet, but I just think it’s changed in the sense that I probably don’t put up with a lot of stuff I used to put up with.’
The 2024 Islander added, ‘I think it’s given me a new lease of life and a new lease of confidence, so it’s worked out for the better to be fair.’
But we shouldn’t be expecting Samantha to hard launch her new relationship on Instagram any time soon it seems she’s going to be keeping things under wraps.
‘A private life is a happy life,’ she continued.
‘I’m one of those people, I do like a little arm in the background of [a picture], or a little date night caption and things like that, but I don’t think I’d put it completely out there.’
Earlier this year, Samantha was linked to former TOWIE star Pete Wicks after they were spotted leaving a restaurant together but the makeup artist turned reality star has insisted their relationship is purely platonic.
‘Me and Pete are friends. I’ve known Pete since I came out of the villa, we’re really good friends,’ she said.
‘We’ve literally bumped into each other outside of Amazonico and gave each other a hug and the next minute, we’re [rumoured to be] dating.’
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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.