Love Island feud reignited as islanders brand fellow villa star a ‘mean girl’ and reveal what you didn’t see on TV
LOVE Island’s Zara and Tanyel have reignited their feuds with Olivia after she called them “mean girls” for hitting out over comments on she made on TikTok.
The pals addressed Olivia taking swipes at them on TikTok and Instagram and also hit out at Tanya for “lying and twisting things”.
“For me, I was seeing things, from the reunion after, she was digging at Tanyel online, and I think she hasn’t actually changed,” Zara said about Olivia.
Tanyel added: “She painted us out to be the mean girls but what she has forgottten to say is we have always only ever reacted to everything she has constantly started.
“One thing that really got to me was how she explained when she got out of the villa she got a lot of hate, and we shouldn’t add on to it.
“All I felt like saying was, how dare you? This is coming from the mean girl, who was mean in the villa for six weeks.”
Zara continued to On Demand Entertainment: “She was one of the main reasons I was down in the villa. She turned the other girls against me.
“When I came out I was like, let bygones be bygones. But for her to come out of the villa and take that view was very calculated.”
Zara and Tanyel had made a TikTok in response to a comment Olivia wrote on a video – and Tanyel said it was the final straw.
Tanyel added: “There’s only so much you can poke the bear and not expect a reaction.
“You can’t keep talking about someone on TV and then outside of it, take no accountability and then write thing on TikToks. And expect no reaction.
“I reacted because I’m only human, we were out together, and this person was like, again and again, you’re always saying something about me.”
Zara added: “I experienced that kind of behaviour from Olivia in the villa and I saw it happening to Tanyel, and it triggered something in me. I felt this was not OK and I wanted to stamp it out.”
Zara and Tanyel also dished on what happened behind the scenes in the villa – and acccused Tanya of “snitching, lying, and twisting it.”
Zara revealed Tanya apologised for stirring trouble between her and Olivia, but later made derrogatory comments about her.
She explained she found out Tanya had told Olivia that she picked her as the most “two faced” during a challenge “to make good TV”.
Zara added: “When I heard that I burst into tears, I thought I had a friend in Tanya, and she spun in to Liv.
“The producers had to step in, I was really crying, everyone saw, and for me that was a moment I wanted to forget, it didn’t make it to air.
“She said she did say it in a way that sounded bad, and she didn’t mean it. If you apologise we can move it.
“I felt like we were good friends in there but then I saw a clip of movie night, it really hurt me. They played a clip of Shaq flirting with me and Tanya said to Shaq ‘oh, you want to flirt with THAT girl?’
“I wouldn’t address a friend like that, so again.
“At the beginning I remember when I was talking to Shaq I realised it was more friends and I went to Tanya and said I want you to know I’m not interested in Shaq in that way.
“She was like, ‘Oh I was stressing out because I know you were more his type than me.’ And I told her, ‘No girl, he is all into you.’
“Then she ran and told Shaq ‘Oh Zara doesn’t like you.’ And I wondered why Shaq was off with me, so I never got that chance to talk to him and discuss it being friends.
“Then there was this rumour going around that I was only speaking to Shaq to make Tom jealous, and I was like, ‘Where is all this coming from?’ I was trying to be as transparent as possible.
“I could have said to Shaq, when David came in with a bombshell with me, Tanya told me David is more her type than you. But I didn’t do that.
“There were so many opportunities when we could have snaked someone. But it’s just not in our nature.”