When we first learned that Love Island: All Stars 2025 lovebirds Harriett Blackmore and Ronnie Vint had been invited on to Olivia Attwood's podcast, So Wrong It's Right, for a post-All-Stars tea-spilling session, we let out a squeal and messaged Martin Akinola to see if he could sort us out with some really good popcorn for the episode – okay, we didn't do that, but we definitely should've done.
After the thoughts Ronnie's bestie Liv has shared about him and Harriett (and even Harriett individually) over the last few weeks while the show's been on, we needed a front row seat and snacks for this one.
Now don't worry, they all got into that, but as they were Liv's main guests this week, Harriett and Ronnie had time to spill plenty of other villa tea – one spillage that certainly caught our attention was about the wild and lingering Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu x Elma Pazar feud. You know, the one that started when Ekin-Su kissed Sammy Root during the heart rate challenge, despite Elma specifically asking her not to.
Let's be honest, what played out on telly over the next few days very much painted the picture that Elma was the villain in all of this (clips of her raising her voice and arguing dominated episodes for days after), while Ekin-Su was painted in a much softer light.
But, according to Harriett, the Love Island edit has done some deceiving here, stressing that all of Ekin-Su and Elma's rows were very much '50/50'.
She told Olivia, 'It was very much equal, like 50/50. I was really shocked to see the way that Elma had been painted.'
Olivia then added, 'Ekin's a very strong person. It's not like Elma was wiping the floor with her.'
To which Harriett replied, 'Yeah, and it was very much like that in there. Like both of them going on at each other in there, so it's just weird how things get shown.'
Especially given the level of online hate Elma received after these rows – it raises an eyebrow. And while we're on that topic – chill, everyone. It's a TV show. It's really not that deep.
Naturally, Liv asked how Elma was doing IRL now, given that she's now fully aware of the backlash. Harriett replied, 'Yeah, she's okay, bless her. I think she's a really strong girl, like she's got thick skin. All of us love Elma, we wouldn't love someone if they were a horrible person.'
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Ben Pulsford is a digital writer for Bauer Media, writing for both Closer online and heatworld. When he's not getting paid to gossip about TOWIE, Love Island and The Real Housewives of Cheshire, he's storming the London LGBTQ+ scene as drag queen, Beary Poppins. Both Ben and Beary are awaiting an invite to join The Real Housewives of Cheshire for series 18. The budget's not there, but the drama is 💅.