Love Island’s Jacques O’Neill had viewers shocked when he decided to stick with Paige Thorne instead of recoupling with Cheyanne Kerr after Casa Amor.
After forming a couple with Paige in the main villa, Jacques’ head was turned during Casa Amor, with the rugby player sharing a bed and kissing Cheyanne – behaviour that viewers had branded ‘disgusting’.
When it came to the recoupling, he said he’d been through a ‘test’ that had ‘made up his mind’ and he decided to stick with Paige.
She also came back single from Casa Amor single after staying loyal throughout – but her happiness quickly turned to confusion when Cheyanne spilled what happened between the pair of them.
‘I felt like I had a connection with someone. I suppose my version of a test is different to someone else’s,’ Cheyanne said. When asked who she had a connection with, she responded Jacques.
‘He said he can’t trust himself, shared a bed,’ she continued, explaining Jacques’ behaviour in Casa Amor.
Asked by Laura Whitmore if she thought she would be standing up rather than sat with him, Cheyanne said: ‘I weren’t sure but I know Paige is a nice girl, hope he treats her nice.’
Paige said: ‘It’s not really what you wanna hear when you come back. It’s just one of those things. I don’t think it’s quite sunk in yet.’
Speaking to host Laura Whitmore, Paige said: ‘It is not what you want to hear, especially with how I was in Casa Amor. I do not think it has quite sunk in yet.’
Later in the episode, Paige scolded Jacques for ‘huffing and puffing’ after she asked if he thought there was something missing with her for him to test their relationship with another girl.
She said: ‘Be respectful. You can still get to know people without being full-on and kissing people, I wouldn’t never do that to somebody I genuinely cared for or had any feelings for.
‘Do you not think I look an absolute idiot now if we carry on whatever we thought we had. Do you think I deserve that. I don’t get why you’re the one being hostile.’
Jacques said: ‘At the end of the day we’re both single and I think you forget that sometimes.’
Storming off, Paige added: ‘I’m done.’
Elsewhere in the dramatic recoupling, Andrew Le Page branded his former flame Tasha Ghouri ‘fake’ and accused her of ‘telling more lies than Pinocchio’.
Ekin-Su and Davide Sanclimenti were brought back together, as were Luca Bish and Gemma Owen.
Love Island continues Friday at 9pm on ITV2.
