Love Island star Adam Collard fired back at former love rival Jacques O'Neill after he made a dig about his relationship with Paige Thorne. In a question and answer session with his villa pal Luca Bish Jacques appeared to poke fun at former love rival Adam in a live Instagram broadcast.
In the Q&A session with fans Luca picked out the question 'what do you think of Adam and Paige's relationship?'. And former rugby player Jacques replied: "They seem like they get on really really well. They seem very happy together."
Pressing him further on the subject Luca said "glad the mum approves", referring to the awkward Meet the Parents episode when Paige asked her mum what she thought of Adam and after a long pause her mum told her daughter "I'm not buying it."
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Jacques said sarcastically: "Yeah well her mum seems really fond of Adam." He and Luca then burst out laughing. And he added: "I'm sure the Sunday dinner will go really well."
Adam shared the clip on his Twitter account and said: "Humble in defeat our kid, chin up x" When he decided to leave the ITVBe dating contest early for his mental health Jacques promised to pick Paige up at the airport on her return.
But Jacques, who missed Sunday night's Love Island reunion show, revealed that he hadn't spoken to his former partner in the TV villa. "No I haven't. That was short and sweet wasn't it. No I haven't simple as that," he said.
Jacques, 23, quit the show shortly after Adam arrived as a bombshell in the villa and made it clear he was interested in Paige. He had just been through a rocky time with paramedic Paige, 24, after he kissed bombshell arrival Cheyanne Kerr during the Casa Amor relationship test, and was rattled by the arrival of hunky Adam, 26.
He told The Sun after his departure: “I thought if I don’t get myself out things could go horribly wrong and I could get physical." And he added: "At home you can remove yourself from situations, but in there you had to deal with every situation. And in that moment I took my microphone off, and walked straight through the front doors because I just wanted to get out of that place."
Jacques previously said he 'couldn’t cope' on the show, which pairs-up singles in the sunshine with the winning couple scooping £50,000, and said doing it was the "worst decision of my life.” He recalled: “I was ready to break down. I was feeling so mentally drained, I just wanted to go home and get myself right."
Over on Adam's Instagram things appear to be going from strength to strength for the couple, who came fifth in the dating contest. He shared a video of himself nuzzling and kissing Paige's face as she beamed. And on Monday Adam posted a snap of himself holding an ice cream as he visited her home city Swansea
In the Meet the Parents episode Paige's mum explained: "The way you were with Jacques you were a lot more you and bouncy and full of life and personality. With Adam it just seems a lot different."
And Paige told her: "He did bring out a different side of me, bubbly and laughing. But there were some bits that were really not okay. With Adam he's so much more chilled out and down to earth."
Speaking to Love Island host Laura Whitmore on the spin-off show Aftersun Jacques said he had told Paige 'to crack on' after he left. "I said crack on just like I did in Casa. She needs to explore like I did," he explained.
"I said 'you do what you need to do' and she's doing that so good on her." But he added about their relationship: "We had a good connection and we really got on and I did see things working on the outside between us."
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