OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Love Island’ stars Antigoni Buxton and Jacques O’Neill are “just friends”.
That’s according to former Islander Jay Younger – who was dumped from the island earlier this month – who has responded to speculation that the pair might be getting close after they were spotted walking arm-in-arm together on a night out this week.
The 28-year-old former bombshell told OK! magazine: “They’re just friends,” before reminiscing about a night out where the 23-year-old rugby player FaceTimed the 26-year-old musician.
Jay said: “I was on a night out with Antigoni two weekends ago and Jacques FaceTime’d, but it was more of a friendly chat.”
He added: “It wasn’t like that … They’re just pals.”
Antigoni had to leave the villa in Majorca after Danica Taylor opted to couple with Jay, despite a blossoming frisson between the blonde singer and him.
Jacques departed the villa because he wasn’t feeling himself on the show, and said he would wait for Paige Thorne, 24, who is currently still in the villa and coupled up with 26-year-old personal trainer Adam Collard, who previously competed on the programme in 2018.
Jacques had clashed with Adam after his arrival in the villa, and following his show exit the star admitted he “just wanted to get out” of the situation.
He said: “At home, you can remove yourself from situations, but in there you had to deal with every situation, and in that moment I took my microphone off, and walked straight through the front doors because I just wanted to get out of that place.
“Producers tried coming to me, they were like, ‘Jacques, are you OK?’, I was saying, ‘I don’t want to speak to you or anyone. I want to be left to myself’. It was too much.
“I was saying to them, ‘This is more than a TV show to me’, it was genuine feelings involved and my head space wasn’t right to be in a TV show.
“I dealt with stuff in there that I’ve never dealt with in my life.”
Source: VacationHunter.Online