Can we share something with you? If you ask us, Love Island: All Stars 2025 has been a bit meh thus far. Don't you think?
The build-up is always a wild ride, but the event itself, yeah, meh – we have similar feelings towards Christmas and being in a long-term relationship, to be honest.
Isn't it wild how honesty can just make you feel better?
And before anyone employed by ITV comes for us, can we add that we think that's all about to change now we know for certain that ultimate bombshell of ultimate bombshells aka Love Island 2024 legend aka Ronnie Vint's ex aka Jess White and Ciaran Davies' nemesis Harriett Blackmore is about to storm into the villa.
And we truly believe that Hurricane Harriett is exactly what this series needs – a STORM.
Unfortunately, that Category 5 storm has already been downgraded to a Category 3 storm as the public decided to vote Olivia Hawkins off the Island last night (Wednesday 22 January), so Harriett can no longer go into the villa and confront both Olivia and Ronnie over those naughty DMs brought to light in episode one. She can, however, have a showdown with Ronnie and that's exactly the telly we need. And let's be honest, it's probably all Turbo's fault anyway.
Saying that, our Harriett has managed to take a swipe at Olivia without ever coming into contact with her in the villa by sharing her thoughts on Ronnie and Olivia's DM'ing in a pre-show interview.
Harriett revealed, 'I’m not surprised [at the DMs] to be honest, but it’s just not nice that [Olivia's] put it on television without telling me first. I’ll definitely have a conversation with Olivia, I don’t think it’s very girls’ girl of her. I’m not going to call her out in front of everyone, it’s a chat we need to have though.'
And then we all booted her from the villa. Please, please, please think of the drama next time, queens.
ICYMI, It took winter Love Island alumni Olivia a grand total of 0.2 seconds on day one to expose the series 11 OG and his sly ways when she revealed Ronnie had slid into her DMs when he was still with Harriett.
And while Olivia made out that it was fairly one sided (on Ronnie's side), according to Ronnie's best mate Olivia Attwood, this is not the case.
Speaking about whether she would pursue things with her ex in the All Stars villa, Harriett said, '[I want to] explore new connections. I definitely need to have a conversation with Ronnie though, I think that’s important. I don’t know how I’m going to feel when I see him, I haven’t seen him in months, we last spoke in September.'
Here's to Love island: All Stars 2025 finally starting. We were worried it was going to be all alpaca dates with Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Curtis Pritchard there for a minute...
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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 💅.