Love Island’s Casey reveals he was ‘friends with benefits’ with co-star after series ended – confirming fan theory
CASEY O’Gorman has revealed his secret relationship with a series co-star – despite the pair splitting on the show.
Casey, 26, has confessed to having a “friend with benefits” relationship with ex-flame Claudia Fogarty.
The recruitment consultant had originally engaged in a relationship with Claudia, whilst on the 2023 winter series.
Casey hit it off with the daughter of the Super-bike Champion Carl Fogarty, when he entered the show as a bombshell.
However, the couple’s relationship hit the rocks when Casey’s head was turned by bombshell Rosie Seabrook.
Their relationship didn’t seem to last long though, as Casey “ignored” Rosie after the show and failed to keep in touch.
After his romance with Rosie fizzled out, fans guessed that Casey and Claudia had rekindled their relationship, as the pair were spotted flirting online.
With Claudia commenting a heart emoji underneath a shirtless photo of him and Casey sharing a flame emoji under one of Claudia’s snaps, the former couple seemed to be growing closer again.
Claudia even caught Casey’s attention on another occasion, where she posed in an all-black black outfit and captioned the post “date night”.
Casey quickly made his shot and wrote: “Am I meeting you there?”
Now, Casey has finally confessed the truth about the pair’s rumoured fling.
Chatting on the Goss Island podcast, Casey admitted: “We might have overstepped the friendship boundary maybe once or twice on a night out, but it is very much just friends”.
He went on to say: “And since that happened, we’ve basically said we can’t be doing that. We’re just going to stay being friends”.
When asked if it was a “friends with benefits” relationship that had “fizzled out”, Casey stated: “Yeah.”
He continued: “I genuinely feel like if I would’ve stayed with Claudia ’til the end of the show, we probably wouldn’t be friends right now.
“It probably would’ve ended a lot worse and a lot more emotions would’ve got involved.
“So, as much as – in a way I wish I stayed with Claudia, I think it’s turned out for the best now, because we are such good mates.”
