Another day, another Love Island contestant rumoured for All Stars 2025. This one though, would actually be top tier TV.
Remember Love Island series nine aka Love Island winter 2023?
It featured Ron Hall and Lana Jenkins' rocky romance, Olivia Hawkins and Zara Lackenby-Brown’s bizarre friendship and Kai Fagan and Sanam Harrinanan's adorable relationship.
FYI, Kai and Sanam are still happily together. In fact, they’re engaged.
Anyway, series nine was also the season Tanya Manhenga and Shaq Muhammad declared their love for each other after two weeks but the nation were shocked when she returned from Casa Amor with Martin Akinola. Savage.
It was all very dramatic but they managed to work past that blip and even came fourth on the show.
Unfortunately they split in July this year but amid the rumours that Tanya is returning to the villa for All Stars season two, she’s spoken out about their split.
‘I feel like from him, he needed to mature a little bit because guys mature very slowly,’ she told Love Island 2023 star Whitney Adebayo on her podcast It's Giving...
‘And then I feel like he was having his epiphany of maturing in our relationship, but then it’s at the expense of my feelings that you’re maturing and it’s not good enough.
‘We lived together. I've never wanted to live with a guy, like ever… It was natural for me to live with him.
‘I didn’t feel any pressure but the behaviour that you start to see when you live with someone... you're in this public relationship…’
She went on to add, ‘I always said from the beginning, “Please, if you ever change your mind or you feel some type of way, you feel like you want to play outside, just say it because if I get embarrassed I’m out.”
‘I’m not going to be that couple that people are like, “Yeah we saw him in the club, he was different.”’
But despite their break up, Tanya has hinted that they could get back together as she told Whitney, ‘I just think he needs to mature, maybe he’ll be with someone else, maybe he’ll be with me… But I don’t know.'
So is she going on All Stars or reuniting with Shaq? We need to know hun.
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Eden-Olivia is the deputy editor of heatworld and she’s worked in showbiz since 2016. She started watching Love Island in 2017 because of her job. However Montana Brown remaining unphased by absolutely everything kept her entertained and she’s watched every series since.