Love Island 's Paige Thorne has shared the heartbreaking reason that she signed up for the ITV2 dating show. The 24-year-old Welsh beauty, who is from Swansea, was talking on Vicky Pattison's The Quiz podcast.
Paige explained: "The real reason I went on Love Island is the pettiest reason you’ve ever heard Vicky, you’re going to cry. I was in an 18-month relationship with this guy, it was a Tinder date, and it ended up in an engagement...
"Anyway, he texted me one day like: 'I’m breaking up with you,' out of the blue and I was like, 'Ok, we’re meant to be getting married but whatever'. I was heartbroken and, when I say heartbroken, I went down to seven stone, I was depressed," the paramedic continued.
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The Mirror reports how the breakup had a profound impact on Paige, who recently split with her Love Island co-star Adam Collard. She told Vicky: "He broke up with me and I was suffering the worst heartbreak known to man and then I found out he was on Tinder within a week. And I was like: 'You little s**t!' I was like: 'Right, if you can do Tinder, well guess what, I can do Love Island then. So, f**k off'. And that’s what I went and done, just to be a little b***h on his TV screen!"
Vicky praised Paige for the move as she said: "Serves him right. I bet he's screwing now babe, half the country fancies you!" Following her Love Island exit and subsequent end of her relationship with Adam, Paige has decided to remain single for a while.
"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," she added. For more showbiz and television stories get our newsletter here.
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