Love Island: Liam and Millie’s plan to make long distance love work

They’ve spoken out for the first time since winning the show

Love Island Liam Millie moving Essex

by Hannah Mellin |
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Love Island champs Millie Court and Liam Reardon have stayed pretty silent since winning the show on Monday evening – the pair have only just returned to Instagram where they've gained millions of followers between them.

Millie and Liam beat Chloe Burrows and Toby Aromolaran to the post to win the £50,000 prize money, and Millie decided to split the cash instead of stealing the full amount for herself.

In their first interview since leaving as king and queen, Millie and Liam have big plans about their future together (they’ve been dubbed the new Gavin and Stacey) and have both agreed that they're willing to do anything to make the distance work.

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Admitting that he’s planning to make the move from Wales to Essex to be with Millie, Liam revealed, “I love where I'm from but I would like to venture off and move to somewhere new and Essex seems like the perfect place really.

"I know some of the boys who were in the villa we got on so well and they mentioned moving in together and they’d like to move to Essex so that’s something I would definitely be considering and that’s my plan really, moving to Essex.”

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Chloe 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.

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Faye 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.

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Brad 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.

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Kaz Kamwi

Kaz was already a fashion blogger before she entered the Love Island villa, and so her first photo is appropriately professional looking (boo).

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Jake 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.

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PS. Enjoy this bonus pic of baby Jake with none other than footballer Wayne Rooney.

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Hugo Hammond

When he was a teenager, Hugo played Cricket for England's Physical Disability team.

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Hugo Hammond

PS. Baby Hugo for your viewing pleasure x

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Aaron 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.

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Toby 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?

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Sharon 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.

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Liberty 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.

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Liam 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).

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Rachel 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.

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Millie 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?

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Lucinda 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?

However, the pair aren’t planning to live together immediately as he continued, “Millie and I will move in together eventually. We’ve been living together in the villa together for the past 7/8 weeks. We don’t want to jump into living together straight away because we don’t want to add too much pressure.”

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Mille agreed with her boyfriend and doesn’t want to rush anything after their whirlwind two-month long romance as she added, “The one thing I want to make sure is that we still stay as strong as we are now.”

The pair also spoke of plans to commemorate their Love Island experience with matching tattoos.

“I’m getting a red love heart on the back of my arm. Me and Mary, Chloe was going to get one as well," revealed Millie.

“If Abi [Rawlings] can do it for us - 100%. She’s a great tattoo artist. I’d love that.”

And Liam will do the same with his boys, “I think potentially the boys will have a love heart with a 7 in it [for series 7]. If we all get one that would be nice.”

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