Amber Gill has broken her silence on her rumoured romance with Arsenal star Jen Beattie.
The 25-year-old Love Island winner also hit out at trolls for claiming that she came out as bisexual to stay relevant.
Amber explained that she was "very happy" but wasn't ready to open up completely on the relationship because she wanted to keep things private for now, reports The Mirror.
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Back in the summer Amber shared on Twitter how she was ''switching teams" and it was "the best decision'', adding: "Watching men makes me feel ill. I couldn't put myself through it again."
Now Amber tells The Sun : "I'm not ready to tell just yet, you know when you just want to keep things to yourself and then like, it’s real life, then you’ll tell everyone else."
She went on to blast people suggesting that she was using the relationship to keep famous, saying: "People who want to try and stay relevant, are people who say too much and that’s obviously not me."
Amber added: "I don’t want to keep having to defend myself and who I’m dating.”
It comes a month after she appeared to confirm she was dating Jen after sharing a pitch-side selfie.
The reality star shared footage cheering on her apparent new flame from the comfort of a box at The Emirates Stadium months after the pair began shared a string of flirty emojis and messages.
Amber - who was previously linked to Manchester City star Jack Grealish - attended as Jen's team played Juventus in December.
Captioning the post she wrote: "When you have no idea what's going on but you want to be supportive."
Jen also posted an Instagram Story of her apparently waving in the direction of the box with heart eyes emojis.
Fans raced to comment on Amber's clip, with one writing: "She's with Jen Beattie."
The comments come as Amber shared a clip of her miming along to a track with the lyrics: "There is no way in this whole wide world that I would ever, ever, ever cheat on my girl."
Never short of a reaction from her followers one posted: "Amber, you have a girlfriend OMG."
While others speculated that her new partner is Scottish sports star Jen, one fan posted: "The search being Jen Beattie and Amber Gill."
The pair have been publicly commenting on each others TikTok feeds since the summer with one upload of Amber sparking a chat about how she feels when a guy compliments her versus a girl - which Jen was quick to reply to posting two emojis.
Jen recently revealed on TikTok that she came out to her parents as gay in 2009.
Meanwhile Amber has admitted she dated women in the past but now has a 'awareness' about her sexuality' admitting to Close Magazine she 'doesn't have a type'.
She added: "I do still date guys, I am just saying I date whoever I want to date, when I want to date them - It's not this big thing and I don't like to define it."
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