Love Island’s Jay goes Instagram official with new girlfriend – and she looks just like villa ex
LOVE Island star Jay Younger has gone Instagram official with his new girlfriend – and has left fans seeing double.
The 2022 islander, whose bid for love on the ITV2 series ended in a dumping, has shared loved-up pics with his gorgeous new girlfriend after keeping her away from his social media for months.
In a string of pics summing up 2024, Jay and the petite brunette, who hasn’t been tagged or named on his Instagram, can be seen enjoying a string of romantic dates and getaways.
Among them, they can be seen wrapped up in jackets and snuggled together in New York and riding bikes around London.
Jay can be seen teasing her over breakfast, but she gives as good as she gets, meeting him at an airport’s arrivals with a sign declaring: “Welcome Home from prison, Jay!”
While the now not-so mystery woman has been shared to the world, Love Island fans couldn’t resist sharing that they feel she bears a striking resemblance to Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu, who Jay dated during his time in the villa.
Although they didn’t quite work out, with Ekin-Su going on to win that year’s series with Davide Sanclimenti, it seems the pair are on good terms.
In fact, Ekin was one of the first to celebrate his new relationship, responding to the pics and commenting: “Yes Jay! she’s beautiful.”
But one fan quickly responded: “she looks EXACTLY like you in the 5th slide” while another noted “@ekinsuofficial I thought it was you ”
“I think she looks like Ekin x” said another in the comments.
Jay arrived on Love Island as a bombshell during the eighth series on the show, stirring up trouble by taking three of the girls on dates.
A couple of days later, Ekin-Su chose to couple up with him.
However, the pair’s spark quickly fizzled out, with Jay choosing Paige Thorne to couple up with, while Ekin-Su returned to Davide.
He later coupled up with Danica Taylor, before meeting Chyna Mills and switching to her during Casa Amor.
Jay and Chyna were eventually dumped on Day 35 of the show following a public vote, and Jay later claimed that the producers had too much say in who he coupled up with, affecting his time in the villa.
The couple did not remain together on the outside, with Chyna now in a relationship with Strictly Come Dancing pro Neil Jones, with whom she has a baby girl.
Jay revealed that just weeks after leaving the villa, he went back to his desk job as an investment analyst.
Paige is now being rumoured to be part of next year’s All Stars line-up, returning to the villa once more.
Love Island All Stars 2025 rumours
Love Island All Stars will be back for its second series in 2025 - and rumours are already rife as to who will be making a comeback this time around.
After the second All Stars series was announced in May, show boss Mike Spender said: “Lots of people have been in contact about it, lots of fun people, from series one onwards.
“We cast it because we knew what was going on behind the scenes of who was getting with who and now even more stories have come out.
“I think we will now save ex-islanders for All Stars.”
One rumoured name for the next series is data engineer Harry Baker.
Harry, 25, arrived in the villa as a bombshell in Series 11. He soon ‘stole’ Grace Jackson after making his debut.
Arriving late in the run, he only lasted for a few days before being dumped alongside Lola Deloca.
Despite the hunk’s brief stint, viewers have called for Harry’s return.
One upset fan wrote: “Get you in All Stars next”, to which Harry cryptically replied by posting ‘shrugging’ emojis.