A new Love Island romance could be on the cards for Jacques O'Neill, after he was spotted getting close to Casa Amor new girl Mary Bedford.
The pair have been pictured together twice now, as his ex Paige Thorne has finally come clean on why she decided not to leave the villa with him when he made an emotional exit.
After going into Love Island 2022 at the end of week one as a bombshell and as Gemma Owen's ex, Jacques was immediately drawn to Paige, with the even hyped up as potential winners at one point, until Paige went into Casa Amor and Jacques and the other boys were joined by six new girls in the villa, one of them being Mary and another, Cheyanne, who he kissed and 'exposed' himself to in the swimming pool.
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Cheyenne spilled the beans on how close she and Jacques had been getting as the Casa Amor twist ended, putting serious seeds of doubt in Paige's head. And then, just a day after Adam Collard made a shock return to the show, Jacques walked, saying he wanted to leave to 'be a better person,' in the hope that he and Paige could pursue something away from camera.
However, Paige quickly moved on with Adam, with the pair narrowly missing out on a place in the final as Jacques watched his former flame on screen. Paige was quizzed on why she didn't leave with Jacques in her exit interview, when she said: "It did cross my mind a little bit to leave with him, but things hadn’t been 100% all the way through, and the fact that they weren’t was what made me think."
Jacques and Paige have yet to speak since she arrived home and he's deleted all trace of her from his Instagram, but a source claims that things could be heating up between him and Mary., who kissed Davide during her brief time in the villa, especially after he was pictured inside her flat.
“He was round there really late, around 11pm, and they were both really touchy-feely at the VIP launch last week” source told The Sun.
“They’re getting really close - they have a lot of shared history given that they’ve both been on Love Island.”
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