Who’s Still Together From Love Island Games 2023? All The Season 1 Couples

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With the shocking finale bringing us to the edge of our seats, here’s who’s still together from Love Island Games season 1. The inaugural Love Island Games is filled with surprises and even more bombshells than the original format and we can’t wait to see the drama unfold.

Love Island UK, which is the original Love Island, premiered in 2005 on ITV, but it wasn’t until it was rebooted in 2015 for ITV2 that it became the reality TV dating show we know and love today. Since it was rebooted in 2015, Love Island UK has aired seven seasons and led to dozens of international spinoffs in countries like the United States, Australia, South Africa and Spain.

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The show, which is one of the highest-rated series in the UK, has also led to real-life marriages and babies for couples who met as contestants such as season 2’s Cara De La Hoyde and Nathan Massey, who are married and share two children, and season 3’s Camilla Thurlow and Jamie Jewitt, who welcomed a baby in 2020.

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Who’s still together from Love Island Games Season 1?

Love Island Games reunites those who previously played in their country’s respective Love Islands. It’s their second chance at love. So who made it til the end and who’s still together from Love Island Games? Read more to find out.

1. Justine Ndiba & Jack Fowler

Status: Still Together

Love Island Games Winners Justine Ndiba and Jack Fowler are still together after the show ended. The two split the $100,000 prize money and Jack even went home as Most Valuable Male Islander. This marks Justine’s second win as she also won Love Island US season 2.

Justine confirmed that they’re still going strong in an Instagram post about their win. “And I’d choose you again @_jackfowler_ 🤷🏾‍♀️🫶🏾💪🏾 It was the constant reminder you gave me of my prayer warriors at home when things weren’t always easy fuh meeee! 🥹🤗So incredibly grateful for this journey and for the partner I couldn’t have done it without! Jackstine, we up!! 🙌🏾🧡

However, since the two are living separately in the US and the UK, it’s been hard to adjust. “Our current relationship status is ‘doing our best.’ I feel like we live so far away from each other, so right now we’re just 100 percent doing our best,” Justine told The Hollywood Reporter. Jack concurred saying, “It’s hard because I’ve obviously got work in London. That’s where my family is and all the rest of it. And obviously, Justine is here. So there’s a big bit of water in between us. But we talk every day when we’re apart, like Facetime, ’cause obviously the show airs 2 a.m. my time in the U.K. and either six or nine over here. But I get to talk to Justine about it and I know some parts of the show were quite difficult for us both, so I think we’ve just tried our best to be there for each other more than anything. But, no, we’re trying our damn best. … Most people, I feel like when they win Love Island, they try and force it. They try and force, ‘Yeah, we’re together, we’ve got two kids and we’re married and whatever,’ but like we are literally taking day by day and enjoying each other’s time.”

2. Aurelia Lamprecht & Johnny Middlebrooks

Status: Not Together

Aurelia and Johnny claimed their stakes in Love Island Games after Johnny dumped Cely but ultimately were the runner-ups during the finale.

Aurelia confirmed to USA Insider that they do not define their relationship as a couple, even though they still talk everyday. “It’s hard to describe what we have because I cannot say it is a friendship, but I cannot say we really date because of the distance, but maybe we look at what can happen in the future,” she said. “This was a big experience and so much happened on social media, and I think we both just need time. I’m thankful that we have each other and are talking to each other. It means a lot to me.”

3. Deb Chubb & Callum Hood

Status: Not Together

Love from across the ocean, Deb and Callum made it to the final three of Love Island Games. Though the two are still very amicable toward each other and distance played a factor in the split. Rest assured, there is still possibility in the future according to Deb. “We’re just friends for now. The time difference is crazy.. who knows what the future will hold tho” she wrote in a now-deleted TikTok comment. She even wrote in one of his Instagram comments longing for him, “Can’t wait for you to move to America🥰🥰”

4. Cely Vasquez & Eyal Booker

Status: Unknown

Cely Vasquez and Eyal Booker were the last couple to be dumped from the island before the final three. After the show, the two praised each other but haven’t revealed if they’re still together.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Cely gushed about her pairing in the villa. “Oh, Eyal is the greatest. I really was just so lucky to be coupled up with him because I think he knew that some of these challenges were giving me a hard time, but he was so supportive and always lifting me up and always, you know, cheering me on. And I don’t think I could have been paired with anyone better at this point. Like he just always lifted my spirits and right before going [into the challenges], I felt fully prepared because I knew that he was gonna back me no matter what.”

Meanwhile, Eyal posted on Instagram, “I had the best time, met the best people & shared unforgettable moments. I couldn’t have wished to have met and spent my time with a better person than Cely.”

5. Ray Gantt & Imani Ayan

Status: Split

Ray and Imani had a turbulent time in the villa with tears being shed left and right (mostly from Ray). The two don’t seem to follow each other on Instagram—a pretty clear signal that the two ended things together off the villa.

In an interview with The Messenger, Ray confirmed that they had split once filming ended. “Overall, I think the vibes are cool now. I was at Justine’s house … we had a watch party with all the guys one day. I want to say two weeks ago. I [saw] Justine last week. It’s love. I still mess with her,” Ray said. “It’s a game, right? You had to make those moves and it’s Love Island Games … I was really hurt about it, but I had that raw conversation with Justine and told her this bothered me. As a friend, I wouldn’t have done this, but I understand your perspective and the uncertainty of what’s next and what could be coming and the villa and you having to do what you had to do, being put in that position.”

He continued, “The Villa got the best of us” and added, “I don’t even think we’re really friends. It’s just cordial now, to be honest.”

6. Who is the Love Island Games Narrator?

Who is the Love Island UK season 10 narrator? The Love Island Games narrator is Iain Stirling who has narrated the Love Island UK and Love Island US since season 1. He is also married to former Love Island UK host Laura Whitford and also narrates Love Island US. In an interview with GQ in 2021, Stirling opened up about how his experience on Love Island UK has changed over the years. “In previous years, it might have been, ‘Redo this joke, please,’” he said. “That’s pretty uncommon these days because the producers trust us more [laughs]. Me and Mark, my writing partner — he works for ITV Studios in development and he’s the guy who actually came up with the Love Island format, 50-year-old Scottish vegetarian, really interesting guy — we’ve just really got the tone down. We’ve also just started asking them beforehand, like, ‘Can we say this?’ Saves us a lot of time. Now, it’s things like, ‘Can you say these people’s names in a different order because they’re sat on a bed in this order?’”

He also told the magazine about how he knew Love Island UK would be a success from the first episode. “God’s honest truth — the very first coupling. When I saw the footage of the very first, original coupling on Season 1, I was like, ‘This is unbelievable,’” he said. “I couldn’t believe how much I cared about everyone instantly. The first time a boy came down and they said, ‘Step forward if you like him,’ and no one stepped forward I was like ‘I can’t not watch this, it’s madness.’”He continued, “Especially then, they were all such characters. Like there was this girl, Hannah, who was from Liverpool — and for an American, now that is a fuckin’ linguistic journey. Her accent was unbelievable. And she was a former Playboy bunny, and she had this insane swimsuit on, and had had a lot of work done. There’s a big thing with women in Liverpool, Scouse girls, on a Saturday you walk around a mall in Liverpool, every woman has got rollers in her hair, getting ready for a night out. She just had this massive blow dry, her hair was huge, platinum blonde, and she had these glass heels on. A builder from Essex got coupled up with her. I was just like, ‘I love this.’ I loved it. I honestly loved it.”Despite his witty narrations, Stirling also told GQ that he would “never” hurt contestants on purpose. “No, never. We were never told to make fun of the show. [Mark and I] figured that out ourselves. We just thought, if we make fun of the show first, other people can’t really,” he said. “Also, the only reason it works is because the show’s actually quite good. Like with making fun of the dates, the Islanders can be at a rubbish table or whatever with plastic champagne glasses, but they still have to be on quite a nice beach.”He continued, “If they were just in someone’s shitty backyard and it looked terrible, and I said ‘that’s terrible,’ it’s not funny. It has to come from a point of actually being quite good. If the show ever actually gets bad, we are in a difficult position, because it’s not comedy if you’re just saying something’s bad that is bad. I think self-deprecation is also a very British thing. I’s very British to say, ‘This is bad. Isn’t that funny?’ You’ve got to say ‘I’m shit,’ and then everyone will go ‘Oh yeah, I’m shit as well.’ That’s what Love Island does really well.”In an interview with The Arizona Central, Stirling explained how narrating the U.S. version of Love Island is different from the U.K. “I think the hardest thing will be the language,” he said. “I don’t even know what you call it if someone mugs someone off. I don’t even know what you’d say. What do you call that in America when a boy is mugging you off?” He continued, “(Phrases) like ‘mugged off’ weren’t a thing before “Love Island.” So hopefully America will get to invent, sort of, their own vernacular and come up with our own little phrases and make it feel unique to them, do you know what I mean? I would love to get an American (version of) … mugged off, et cetera. So we’ll see how it goes.

Though the slang is different, Stirling also confirmed that he’s up-to-date on American references—for the most part. “I think — and I’m sure Americans do know this — but literally, like, half of our news feed is American news, American politics. If you go to the politics section of the BBC website, half of it will be U.S. politics,” he said. “Culturally, I think, we’re sort of all right. All the TV shows, I sort of get. The sports, I don’t understand. I don’t get that. Basketball is cool. But why is soccer not the best sport? It’s mad; it’s the best game. It’s so good.”

He also told The Arizona Central about what it’s like to narrate Love Island US and UK at the same time. “It’s a bit wild, and I’m very fortunate because the people at Peacock are sort of, like, very aware of how full-on it is, and they’ve done everything to make it possible that I can do this and sort of do things like, you know, sleep and see my family and eat, things like that. Everything’s in LA for the American show, apart from the writing team,” he said. “We’ve basically got two huts next to each other, and me and Mark (Busk-Cowley) will write the British one. And then the second we finish recording that, we go into the American room — I was going to say office, but that makes it sound too good — and go inside the American box. We’ll help those guys write what they’ve written so far and sort of let them know things we would and wouldn’t say. And also we learn stuff, like Americans don’t know what grafting is! I found this out today.”

7. Who hosts Love Island Games?

Maya Jama is the Love Island Games host. She also hosts Love Island UK as ITV announced in October 2022 that Jama would replace Laura Whitmore, who left as the Love Island UK host after season 8. “I’ve always been such a massive Love Island fan and I’m so excited to be hosting one of the nation’s favourite shows! I can’t wait to get into the Villa to meet all of the Islanders,” Jama said in a statement at the time.

For this reiteration of Love Island, Jama is excited to show off what the seasoned Islanders have in play. “As a fan myself, the most surprising element is how tough the challenges and games actually are,” she told Elite Daily. “Going into it, I was assuming that they’d be Love Island-esque games: not too tough, lighthearted, a lot of kissing. But there are some really hard ones where you have to use your full strength. I couldn’t do a lot of them. I would be wiped out straight away. Considering the islanders are not gladiators or athletes, they did incredible.”

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