Love Island 2023 stars who smoked in the villa

We've discovered which 2023 Islanders smoke

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by Eden-Olivia Lord |
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As much as we're loving the newer series of Love Island, we can't help but reminisce about the good old days.

Remember during the 2015 series when Jon Clark proposed to Hannah Elizabeth? Or Love Island 2016 when Malin Andersson returned to confront Terry Walsh? And who could forget the smoking area where all the tea was spilled?

While the smoking area has been banned from the villa (probably because of all the Ofcom complaints), the Islanders are still allowed to smoke but the rules have changed slightly.

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chris hughes smoking in 2017 ©itv

When we caught up with Love Island 2023 star Zara Lackenby-Brown she revealed which one of her cast members smoke in the villa.

"Quite a few of the Islanders vape. I believe Shaq [Muhammad] and Tanyel [Revan] vape and Ellie [Spence] smokes," she exclusively told Closer Online.

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tanyel (left) and shaq (who is kissing anna-may) both vape ©ITV

She then went on to add, "So to vape or smoke and have a break, you have to ask/request it and then you go outside the villa - just to the front door. You stand there with one of the producers or runners and you have your few minutes.

"Then you go back [into the villa] by yourself."

And now Olivia Hawkins has revealed a few more Islander smoked, "Will [Young] and Samie [Elishi]."

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ellie smokes in the villa ©ITV

"Claudia [Fogarty] did. Keanan [Brand] did. And then there were others that would sneak a little vape when they weren't supposed to," Maxwell Samuda told Kiss Fresh.

Olivia added, "They used to argue on who could vape first and I think Will would always get there first and he'd be out there for a long time, wouldn't he?

"On the challenges I would take theirs... You have to declare it so I'd be sneakily trying to have a bit of Samie's on the challenge."

Who would have thought?

During Love Island 2022 only Davide Sanclimenti smoked in the villa and Adam Collard vaped - once again though, none of this aired on TV.

Honestly, you learn something new every day.

Zara's confession about the Islanders who smoke, came shortly after her pals David Salako and Anna-May Robey revealed that she was misrepresented on the show.

"I feel like she's coming across a bit like the villain but that's just how her personality is. She's confident, she's straight forward and she just says it how it is and that's not a bad thing," David admitted.

Anna-May added, "I agree. She says what she thinks. She's quite fiery but she is really, really lovely as well, but they don't show that, when she's calm and she's nice.

"They don't show that, they just show when she's kicking off but she's a lovely girl."

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