As another series of Love Island: All Stars draws to a close, we're anticipating two things: having weekday evenings back and All Star couples dropping like flies. Not all of them, of course; to be fair, All Stars 2024 winners Molly Smith and Tom Clare are still together, as are finalists Sophie Piper and Joshua Ritchie, but the rest of them? Dead flies. Dead, gorgeous flies.
And it seems things are starting a little earlier this year, as we've already lost our first All Stars couple a week and a half before the final. Olivia Hawkins and Marcel Somerville have confirmed their split, just days after being dumped from the Love Island villa that they are no longer an item.
As far as we can tell, the All Stars lasted about two weeks together outside of the villa; which is still exceptionally above average by Love Island standards, let's be honest.
After a few days of heavy speculation, Olivia confirmed the 'split' to People (erm, sorry, big time), revealing that they have called it quits, but have 'decided to mutually agree to stay friends.'
She continued, 'We did really get on in the villa, [but we] didn't have enough time together in there before we got thrown out into the limelight.'
That's fair, we had them round Closer HQ before they'd even unpacked.
Liv added, 'We still speak every day, but I think we've just agreed that it's more of a friendship.'
Marcel then told The Mirror, 'So after we left the villa, me and Liv got to know each other over six or seven days in total and you leave the villa together and people are expecting and hoping it's going to turn into something more but when you get back to reality - I've obviously got a lot of stuff going on, she's got a lot of stuff going on.'
But, why can't you have a lot of stuff going on together? RIP.
During a recent chat with Love Island 2019's Anna Vakili and her sis Mandi on their Sisters in the City podcast, Olivia lifted the lid on who is a game player on the dating show – and she managed to shade a few people while doing so.
'The thing is, I feel like everyone could be playing a game,' she confessed, 'because everyone [who] is going in, they're almost a professional.'
Does Olivia realise she is also referring to herself and Marcel here? We do love a self-aware queen.
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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 💅.