Love Island’s Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu has never been one to shy away from her strong opinions on the reality series.
And it turns out that she’s highly opinionated off-screen, too, as her recent comments to TikTok star Max Balegde expose.
Ekin-Su clapped back at Max - a TikToker with 3million followers to his name on the platform - after he appeared to allege that her relationship with Davide, whom she met on the show, was fake.
Speaking on The Useless Hotline - a podcast launched by himself and fellow TikToker George Clarke - Max seemed to allude to a relationship which ‘is very prominent in the UK media right now’ being a PR stunt.
He said in the clip, which has since surfaced on the social media platform: “I’m talking [about], there’s probably one relationship specifically that’s very prominent in the UK media right now that I maybe happen to know is definitely not real.
“And some other people have alluded to this on some other [platforms].”
Although the content creator didn’t drop any names, his viewers quickly flocked to the comments section to guess that they were speaking about the most recent Love Island winners.
“I’m saying Ekin Su,” one viewer wrote, while another added: “Bet it’s Ekin Su and Davide.”
Meanwhile, Ekin-Su caught wind of the apparent accusations, and wrote in a now-deleted Twitter rant: “Oh f**k off Max. Trying to stay relevant by associating with us. Don’t even know who you are mate. P*ss off with your sad TikTok life.”
Max, who didn’t want to name-drop the supposed fake couple, said he refused to identify them because ‘they were quite nice to me’.
He said: "I met the person who’s in it and they were quite nice to me, but they definitely said something that would indicate they are 100 per cent not in a relationship with said person.
“When you meet someone and within the first hour they say to you ‘find me a small brunette with a tight p***y I can throw around’, and you know they’re supposedly in a very public relationship?
"I then met the other person who’s part of that allegedly fake relationship, and said ‘I was just with suchabody and they were so complimentary of you’ and they go, ‘really?’ As if to be like, ‘we’re not actually together, that shocks me a little bit.’
“And then I met this person with the long hair and the boobs. They were really lovely and I felt for whatever reason pressure to tell them that their counterpart had just been saying really nice things about them when they didn’t actually mention them at all.
"But ever since then, I’d really clocked onto it, because if you go for a run and paparazzi are there… that’s staged.”
The Mirror has contacted a representative of Ekin-Su and Max for a comment on the matter.
