Despite being one of the first to be dumped from this year’s Love Island, northern GOD Brad McClellandis now one of the nation’s most allegeable bachelors. Who wouldn’t want to get lost in those ocean eyes?
We all thought Brad had found 'The One' in Lucinda Strafford during his time in the villa but a brutal twist saw him sacrifice his place for her to stay and she repaid him by cracking on with Aaron Francis the next day.
Brad’s love life was the main topic of conversation during this week’s episode of heat's Under The Duvet with VOXI, as Brad and Sharon Gaffka joined KISS Breakfast's Harriet Rose and Love Island legend Chris Taylor to digest the most recent villa antics.
However, it wasn’t just Lucinda who Brad was quizzed about. Oh no. Brad was taken aback when Chris revealed that Love Island 2019 babe Anna Vakil admitted that she had a little bit of a crush on him, as she revealed that she would ‘eat him alive’ on a previous week’s episode of Under The Duvet.
Keen to make Anna and Brad happen, Chris wanted to know his thoughts on a potential romance with Anna.
“I’d be open to anything if she wants to drop us a message,” he replied.
Cheeky.
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CHECK OUT: the Love Island 2021 cast's first Instagram posts
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1 of 16Chloe Burrows
Chloe may have caught all the boys' attentions as evidenced in a recent explosive episode, but you can see she's always been a stunner from this uni halls pic taken way back in 2015.
2 of 16Faye Winter
Faye has certainly nailed this classic Instapose in this snap from 2019 - the hair, tan and Adidas bodysuit are all on point and a sign of things to come.
3 of 16Brad McClellan
A quick glance over Brad's insta and it's clear he uses it primarily to document his fitness journey. This snap from 2017 is from before it all began.
4 of 16Kaz Kamwi
Kaz was already a fashion blogger before she entered the Love Island villa, and so her first photo is appropriately professional looking (boo).
5 of 16Jake Cornish
Finally, a properly old photo! You can tell that Jake was already going to the gym when this photo was taken with a mate back in 2013.
6 of 16love-island-contestants-first-instagrams
PS. Enjoy this bonus pic of baby Jake with none other than footballer Wayne Rooney.
7 of 16Hugo Hammond
When he was a teenager, Hugo played Cricket for England's Physical Disability team.
8 of 16Hugo Hammond
PS. Baby Hugo for your viewing pleasure x
9 of 16Aaron Francis
Like Kaz, Aaron was already trying his hand as an influencer before he signed up to Love Island and so most of his photos are pretty glossy, but scroll down far enough and we found this photo of him seemingly winning an arm wrestle against Somoan Rugby Union player Many Tuilangi.
10 of 16Toby Aromolaran
Toby's not giving anything away with this sultry selfie from 2018, other than perhaps that he's heading off on his holidays, judging by his passport and boarding pass. He doesn't look that excited about it though, does he?
11 of 16Sharon Gaffka
In case you missed it, Sharon used to compete in beauty pageants and was Miss UK 2018. Here she is from the Galaxy pageant that same year.
12 of 16Liberty Poole
It looks like Liberty has always been a big fan of the finer things in life - as well as a blonde hair extension or two - judging from this snap with a pal from 2019.
13 of 16Liam Reardon
Viewers couldn't believe that Liam was only 21 when he entered the villa, but here's proof that Liam looked 30 way back in 2018 (regular teenaged boy for reference).
14 of 16Rachel Finni
This photo of Rach taken on a night out was posted in 2017 but captioned, "2 Years Ago ud83dude2b#CanILookLikeThisAgainPlease", so we can assume it's from way back in 2015.
15 of 16Millie Court
Proving she's always been a fan of posing up a storm in a bikini, we're majorly jeal of Millie's 2018 holiday to Cannes. Ahh, holidays - remember those?
16 of 16Lucinda Strafford
Right, we can't actually believe this 2018 photo of bombshell Lucinda - have Love Island checked her I.D.? Is she old enough to be on the show?
Brad also revealed his thoughts about Lucinda announcing that she andAaron were already OVER just 72 hours after walking out of the villa together.
When he was asked whether he had been in contact with Lucinda since her exit, Brad revealed that he has spoken to both her and Aaron already.
“I have spoke [to her], aye, and it’s none of your business. She’s in the five day lockdown,” he admitted.
“I’ve spoken to Aaron too.”
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Host Harriet then quizzed him on the rumours that Lucinda had secretly rekindled things with her footballer ex-boyfriend Aaron Connolly before jetting out for the show.
“Have you heard that she’s gone back to her boyfriend in real life, what’s the tea?,” asked Harriet.
“I think that’s a load of s--t to be fair, I don’t know the gospel on it but from what I’ve heard, that’s not true,” he said.
“She spoke about him in there and she said ex to me. You know what, people are going to say things and any opportunity they’ve got they’re going to stir it up.
“The thing is, she’s out now, and if she was going to be with him she would.”