Greg O'Shea has said he 'regrets' ending his romance with Amber Gill after they won Love Island in 2019.
The gorgeous pair waltzed off with the £50,000 prize money and everything looked peachy - until they split five weeks after leaving the villa.
At the time, Amber, 25, accused Greg, 27, of breaking up with her in a text message, prompting the #UnfollowGreg hashtag.
The rugby player also claimed he received death threats after the Geordie's accusation - which he vehemently denied.
Now Greg has spoken out about the furore on Doireann Garrihy’s The Laughs Of Your Life podcast.
He admitted: “I’d love to say ‘no regrets’ but there probably is one. I should have bit my tongue a bit longer and stayed in the relationship with Amber a bit longer.”
“I was just way too honest and way too focused about going to the Olympics at the time, which worked because I did go in hindsight.”
“But when she posed the question to me being like ‘you’re obviously gonna ask me to be your girlfriend, are you?’ I was like ‘but sure how is this gonna work? I’m trying to train to go to the Olympics, you’re in the UK, you’re the ‘it’ girl, everyone wants a bit of you,’ I was like ‘this isn’t going to work.'”
Trying to clarify where 'textgate' came from, he continued: "Stupid Greg just decided to answer honestly over FaceTime like, and that’s when the whole ‘Greg breaks up with Amber over text’ thing comes out.
“Over in the UK I’m just branded as like, ‘Oh you’re Greg the guy that broke up with Amber over text.'”
“And I’m just like, ‘It wasn’t over text… It was over FaceTime… And we didn’t break up because we weren’t going out… We were dating for two weeks."
Greg revealed he still 'loses 1,000 followers' a day over the situation, claiming it was "madness.”
Amber, meanwhile, said 'switching teams' was the 'best decision' she'd ever made after watching the men on Love Island fawn over the new bombshells in the villa back in July.
"Watching men makes me feel ill I couldn't put myself through it again," she tweeted.
Early last summer, the stunner left a heart-eye emoji on a TikTok of lesbian women showing their 'feminine' to 'masculine' transformations.
One fan later tweeted to Amber: "Bestie I’m afraid to ask you this," along with a couple of fruit emojis, hinting toward her being a part of the LGBTQ+ community.
"Yes sometimes," the former beautician responded.
When asked about her response to the fan’s tweet, Amber told the Daily Star : "The fruit emojis mean the fruit emojis – what can I say. Some days I might be, some days I might not."
She added: "A lot of people have asked me about that and that’s all I’m going to comment."
