Teddy Soares has released the lead song on his breakup playlist following his breakup with fiancée Faye Winter.
The Love Island star, 29, became single this year after his relationship with Faye, 27, ended two years ago on the show’s 2021 season.
Faye admitted she struggled to get out of bed after the breakup, while Teddy recently stated that he was only just started to come out of his shell.
Teddy has now spoken up about the breakup as he helps people have a fresh start after a huge life change by redesigning his new apartment as part of Dulux’s Change Starts Here campaign.
In an interview with Metro.co.uk, the influencer discussed what songs were on his breakup playlist that helped him get through the terrible period following the separation (we’ve all had one, let’s be honest).
He immediately responded, identifying Bryson Tiller’s song Blame, stating, ‘there were quite a few songs, but that was definitely one of the top ones.’
The heartbreaking song is about a split in which the other partner claims he never loved her and he fears there is someone else, adding, ‘Go ahead and take your time, but you must make up your mind…’ It is your responsibility to tell me what you want to do.’
Teddy is ‘definitely happier today’ than in the days following the divorce, noting that ‘it’s always heartbreaking when anything happens, no matter what.’
He added: ‘When you’re in a relationship, with a partner you’re doing things together. [After], when you do something that makes you feel good you’re doing that for yourself. When yous see yourself at the other side you get a good feeling of accomplishment, and hopefully it aligns with that tranquillity after the storm of coming out of a relationship.
‘Because sometimes it feels like grief, you really feel like you’ve lost someone. It can be really hard to deal with.’
Having got through the most painful part, Teddy had advice for others going through the same thing, and assures them ‘things eventually will be okay.’
For Teddy and Faye, things were slightly different as their relationship – from beginning to end – was in the public eye, and the star admits ‘things could have been done differently,’ but ‘the way I’m feeling now … I can’t complain.’
‘You go through things in life, certain challenges. No doubt being in the public eye made that so much harder because it’s so amplified and you’ve got so many different people’s opinions. But it’s all a learning process.
‘At the end of the day, when you’re in a relationship out of the public eye you still have opinions. You might have your mum, your dad …but you also have people in your lives who love and support you.
‘I don’t really like to listen to opinions anyway,’ he admitted. ‘So for the most part I don’t respond to most of the things I see. I completely count on my family … I keep everything in my bubble. It allows me to compartmentalise. how to handle and deal with the things I’m feeling head on.’
It means Teddy hasn’t considered whether he’ll keep any future relationships private, because, as he puts it, ‘clearly I don’t know who I’ll meet in the future.’
‘They could also be in the public eye, right? Which would also make that difficult. I wouldn’t like to predict or completely close the option on whoever I might meet in future.’
As for whether fans could ever see him back in the Love Island villa – well, he’s not ruling it out, but he worries feels ‘old right now – I’ve got greys coming in.’
‘Right now I don’t know if it’s something that can be for me. I don’t know how many 28, 29-year-olds go on it … if they did an all-stars one potentially. There are other people in the Love Island past who are roughly my age as well so it wouldn’t feel too bad.’
In reality, the actress would want to attempt the’middle-aged’ Love Island, which has lately been unveiled as adult children matching their parents in the resort.
But for the time being, he’s focused on healing, partly by looking to the future, where he teases that he has a lot coming up that he can’t talk about yet, and partly by collaborating with Dulux to give his new flat a facelift, allowing Teddy to have a fresh start.
Admitting he ‘never painted before at all,’ Teddy says witnessing the final product after putting the work into it ‘gave me a sense of accomplishment.’
‘It’s a representation of where I’m at at the moment, trying to find myself,’ he says, reflecting on the design he gave his room.
‘That it’s OK actually, being single. Not just about how being in a relationship and having partnership you have to be one with yourself and the walls really represent that.’
‘It was so therapeutic and that was such an encouraging thing.’
Teddy has partnered with Dulux as part of its ‘Change Starts here,’ campaign, to redecorate his home into a positive space following a big life adjustment
