‘It’s mental torment to see your ex crack on in the villa,’ says Love Island winner Kai Fagan as Jake Cornish quits
LOVE Island winner Kai Fagan has given his verdict after Jake Cornish quit the All Stars series - saying "it must be mental torment to see your ex crack on in the villa".
Kai - who found love on the ITV2 dating show with stunning social worker Sanam Harrinanan - said the spin-off series is expected to be "emotionally charged" as some Islanders come face-to-face with their exes.
Last night, Jake Cornish reunited with former flame Liberty Poole, while Callum Jones and Molly Smith, who split six months ago after a three year relationship, entered as bombshells.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Kai said: If you’re going into a villa now as an All Star, you’ve got to be ready and prepared for anything.
"I feel like it could be quite mentally tormenting, especially because Jake and Liberty were together and Callum and Molly are back in there and if they didn’t know about it then I can fully understand.
"You build up this emotional connection with someone, you have a life.
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"I know Callum was with Molly for a long time and all of a sudden potentially seeing them get with other people, it can be quite tough and difficult.
"I’ve met Callum a couple of times, he’s a nice lad, if they want to rekindle it then rekindle it, if they want to move on, then move on.
"But I hope they make the decisions correctly because like I said, it could be hard for them.
"It all makes good TV at the end of the day, that’s what people want but I just hope those people getting put into those situations are getting the right support."
Discussing Jake's shock exit, Kai shared: “It’s such a tense environment and this season of Love Island is going to be more tense.
"You’re going to have people who have been in relationships for three years watching potentially someone they still have a bit of love for in bed with someone else a couple of metres away, it’s going to be difficult tensions are going to be flying high.
"It’s emotional, it’s going to be an emotional one this series."
After being crowned the winner alongside Sanam in 2023, Kai knows exactly how to reach the final and has shared his best piece of advice for the returning stars.
“Remember it’s a show, expect the unexpected and stay true to yourself, don’t do anything that you wouldn’t do on the outside or act a certain way just because emotions are heightened in there and it probably will be emotionally charged," he told us.
Away from his TV fame, Kai has gone back to his teaching roots and teamed up with Technicians: We Make the Difference campaign to shine a light on exciting but under-the-radar jobs that teenagers don’t know about.
Nearly half (47 per cent) still think that university is essential to get the job they want, which is not necessarily true for teenagers dream jobs – with apprenticeships and T-levels being viable options to fast track them into their favourite sectors and industries
Teenagers’ confidence on landing their dream job is low, nearly one in four (24 per cent) teenagers admit to having little or no knowledge of the opportunities within their dream sectors.
Job roles that excite young people most include Engineer (14 per cent), a Footballer (9 per cent) and a Computer Scientist (8 per cent).
He said: "As a teacher, you have a commitment to the students to be able to give them a best possible pathway and going forwards.
"So that's why, when I was approached by this campaign, I thought, this is amazing and informing students on something that I didn't know too much about.
"But it's an amazing career decision if they were to take it and more options instead of just going down your usual university. And yeah, your usual university route that's pushed on by a lot of schools."
Kai continued: "So what the campaign does is it gives students the option to be able to look at career, different career paths that they might may never have thought about.
"So, for example, there's over 100 different career options on there, and it's and you do post 16.
"So traditionally, once you leave school, it's like, go to college, go to university and get a job.
"But here it's letting the students go into the careers that they dream of without necessarily having to go to university and to be able to earn as well and use skills that they're passionate about and go into careers that they never thought would be possible."
Kai admitted that he would love to return full-time to a career in education - saying his passion for the teaching sector is still important to him.
"I would go back into working in education.
"I've actually been like trying to set up my own like sports coaching company that goes and provides primary school sports provisions with somebody that I used to work with.
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"So that's my main focus at the minute and getting that up and running.
"And if that does work out, then yeah, we'll be working education for time, and but under a different sort of capacity."
