Love Island's Adam Collard has spoken out for the first time following his split with Paige Thorne. The 27-year-old, who returned to the ITV2 dating show for his second stint earlier this year, "holds his hands up" after being videoed flirting with other girls on nights out.
Adam said of the incident: “I've heard so much misinformation the past few days, so I feel like I need to now say what really happened. The night I was seen with my arm around the girl in McDonald’s I’d been out on a PA and met loads of people that evening. It’s my job at the end of the day, to take pictures and selfies and things like that. Anyway, after that me and my friends were starving so we decided to go for a McDonald’s and we walked there whereas normally we’d be taken by security.
"So anyway we just walked along, which isn’t normally the case, and in there was when we met the blonde girl who was like the famous one out of the video that was shared around. She actually was really nice and polite and we’d had a couple of drinks but what she said was ‘I got in tonight to the club but my friends didn’t.' So what you don’t actually see in the video is the camera goes around and I get photos with all of her friends like that and take pictures with all of them," he added.
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The star continued in an interview with The Sun: “It was just a laugh and carry on. Again, another thing you don’t see is that two of my friends are actually on the left and right. All we were doing was waiting for food and took pictures with people in there. The blonde girl has publicly said she went home on her own and again at the end of the video you don’t see her go left and me go right. But that doesn’t matter because people want to believe what they want to believe.”
Adam added that the following morning was hard, as he knew it was the “beginning of the end” for his relationship with paramedic girlfriend Paige. "It all got blown out of proportion, then all the other photos and videos I’d taken that night got turned into looking like something else. There’s a video of me earlier that night in a club. I don’t even know who took it, but I’ve seen one of them and I think that’s what Paige has been referring to. I was just working," Adam said.
Following the end of her relationship with Adam, Paige has decided to remain single for a while. Speaking on Vicky Pattison's The Quiz podcast, she said: "I have vowed now that I am going to be single for a very, very long time Vicky, very! It’s not for me anymore. In one year, I’ve had three failed relationships and we’re only in October." You can read more about here.
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