Now, this is how you do bombshells, Love Island producers.
Honest thoughts: you've delivered one or two explosions in the bombshell department this series, but the rest have been, well, party poppers (loud and exciting for a micro-second, but in the end, just contribute to the mess).
Thankfully, you've seen the error of your ways and decided that now is the time to really make those All Stars villa walls shake with the introduction of Samie Elishi.

Winter Love Island 2023 finalist Samie – who slow-mo walk into the villa was teased at the end of last night's episode alongside Love Island 2021 star Chuggs Wallis (no shade, but another party popper) – needs no introduction and has been rumoured to be entering the villa since before the OG cast were officially announced.
She managed to turn the head of almost every boy the first time she was in villa (especially Tom Clare who she made it to the final with and dated for some time IRL) and no doubt producers are hoping she'll do the same to this year's All Stars boys and cause one or two couples to quake.
One boy who'll definitely have mixed feelings about Samie's arrival is Love Island 2023 winner Sammy Root; as far as we can tell, there's no direct beef between the two, but we know for a fact that Samie is very good friends with Sammy's Love Island ex, Jess Harding, which could cause trouble for the TOWIE star (who is currently happily coupled up with fellow TOWIE star Elma Pazar).

Commenting on Samie's announcement post on the official Love Island Instagram page, Jess commented, 'THERES MY BABY 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷.'
Naturally, a fan then stuck their oar in and asked Jess how she would feel if Samie went for Sammy, to which Jess replied bluntly, 'She wouldn’t 😂.'

It's not like us to read into drama (👀), but we're totally reading into this and will be watching to see how this unfolds on-screen with eagle eyes.
Samie is, of course, exes with Casey O'Gorman's best mate, Tom Clare, so that seems like the obvious avenue for a bit of Love Island drama, but as far as Closer online can tell, Samie and Casey are actually friends IRL. Saying that, she did come for Casey rather publicly just last month.

In an interview with Love Island producers prior to entering the villa, Samie revealed that she actually has her eyes set on another All Star in the villa.
When asked who she had her eye on, Samie revealed, 'Luca [Bish], I feel like he's very much a bit of me looks wise and watching him on this series, I like that he’s in touch with his emotional side. He’s been the voice of reason throughout the whole villa, I’m always saying "thank god someone said that…finally!"'
We're suddenly having a premonition of Samie and Grace Jackson fighting it out over Luca Death Becomes Her style. Anyone else?

Samie entered the winter Love Island 2023 villa as a bombshell on day 14. She was initially coupled up with Kai Fagan, but soon she and Tom coupled up and the rest was history. The pair made it all the way to the final and finished in third place behind Lana Jenkins and Ron Hall, and the winners Kai and Sanam Harrinanan. Sadly, in April 2023, just a month after leaving the villa, Samie and Tom called it quits on their relationship.
In January 2024, it came to light that Samie was dating former TOWIE star Harry Lee - you know, Harry who dated Chloe Brockett and Frankie Sims?
They hard launched their relationship in March 2024, but a few months later it came to light that they'd split after they unfollowed each other and deleted all their Instagram photos of each other.
Love Island: All Stars continues tonight at 9pm on ITV2 and ITVX.
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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 💅.