Love Island runner-ups Lana Jenkins and Ron Hall have hit back at claims which insist the pair are not compatible enough after they lost out on being crowned winners of the ITV2 dating show on Monday.
The lovebirds missed out on the top spot after Kai Fagan and Shanam Harrinanan won the 2023 series after quickly becoming fan favourites - with the pair making Love Island history thanks to Shanam being the first Casa Amor bombshell to win the show.
Before the grande finale, the Islanders were asked to choose which couple they thought were the 'least compatible' in a sneaky challenge which left some couples at risk of being dumped from the island.
It was later revealed that Ron and Lana received two votes; Will and Jessie received two votes; and Kai and Sanam received one vote.
The villa then voted to save Ron and Lana and Kai and Sanam, sending Will and Jessie home.
Speaking to ITV after the final, Ron responded to those who doubt his compatibility with Lana, as he addressed their 'ups and downs' in the villa.
Ron shared: "I think it’s hard, because they weren’t [ups and downs] in our brains. We never lost sight of one another.
"Yes we, well me more so, yes we took the experience to the full, in terms of I need to test that Lana is the right person for me and did what I needed to do.”
“And in the back of my head I was always like, ‘No, why am I doing that?’ Because it’s just coincidence and chance she was the one from the first day.
"I can understand people from seeing it wouldn’t know, and even people in the Villa didn’t know, but we always knew.”
While Lana added: "Yeah I’m the same. There were directions in different parts of the Villa that we tried, but my heart never left Ron and I think Ron was the same where his heart never left me.”
“Even though you’d try and use your brain to go elsewhere and think maybe I need to do this, the fact of the matter is that we never left each other really, we were always going to end up together.”
