Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu has revealed whether she’d sign up for Love Island All-Stars, after splitting from Davide Sanclimenti.
The Turkish actress and the Italian businessman called it quits back in June, less than one year after they won the dating show.
An All-Stars version of Love Island is set to air early next year, giving fan-favourite contestants a second chance of finding love.
In a new interview with RSVP Live, Ekin-Su revealed if she would like to go on the show.
She said: “I think it’s a great concept and I think it will be a great idea but I’m not interested.”
When asked who she would love to see back in the villa, the reality star said: “I would like to see Maura [Higgins] on there. I’d love to see all the iconic people back on there… Kem [Cetinay], Ovie [Soko], Megan Barton [Hanson] maybe, the icons.”
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During a recent interview with Goss.ie, Maura confirmed she was asked to appear on the new series – but turned it down.
The 32-year-old told us: “I can’t see myself ever doing that again, no. I’ve been asked, but I’ve said no.”
“I just think, I’ve done it once, I’ve had my time on Love Island. I don’t really want to go back in time, I want to look to the future.”
Davide announced his split from Ekin-Su in a statement shared via his Instagram Stories on June 29.
He wrote: “Ekin-Su and I are no longer together. I am grateful for the memories and opportunities we shared together and I wish her nothing but the best.”
“I would like for everybody to respect this decision during this difficult time. I will continue to support Ekin-Su in anyway possible.”
The UK Sun later reported that Ekin-Su was “blindsided” by their split, but Davide slammed the story – claiming their relationship had been on the rocks “for months”.
At the time, he wrote on Instagram: “Posting publicly about the breakup was extremely difficult yet necessary, despite the urge to keep it private, and contrary to what chinese whispers are saying, I didn’t blindside her as she was fully aware about my intention to post and at first she even agreed to post at the same time, she did change her mind last minute though.”
“I respected her decision not to post it at the same time as me, but since the relationship has been on the rocks for months and parting ways has been a long time coming, I ultimately decided to go ahead with it rather than keep on dragging a situation that became unhealthy for us both.”
Davide continued: “This has been one of the hardest things I ever did in my life and there’s no perfect way to navigate a breakup.”
“Sadly, there’s been a stream of toxic criticism circulating around me, and it’s disheartening. The constant creation of fake narratives on a person who was nothing but a genuine, caring and loving boyfriend for her and all he wanted was to enjoy and nurture the beautiful relationship they had.”
“And instead we had to deal with ridiculous accusations and fake stories. This over time had a massive impact on my mental health and our relationship. Of course no on is perfect yet there’s been a lot of pressure for us to be the perfect couple.”
“I’d accept the constructive criticism, but it’s the daily fake and toxic accusations that are going around that I cannot deal with.”
“It saddens me that some people keep judging a relationship and a person based solely on social media snippers, news and rumours, lacking the full context of what happens in real life and what has been said between me and Ekin.”
“Some people even keep on judging my English. I’m proud of myself. I arrived in England 4 years ago without knowing a word of English, and in such a short period of time I graduated in MSc Banking and Finance with a first class honours, worked in an asset management company, opened a small business, won a reality tv show reaching the hearts of a whole country, keeping them entertained and making them laugh.”
“All this and more done in a language that is not my native one. Fortunately most of the people have good sense of judgement and see how things really are. Sadly some people are creating even more stories just for some clicks on their names or pages when the reality is that I’ve been always by her side supporting her and wanting her to succeed.”
Davide concluded his post by writing: “I felt I had to say something to give voice to the majority of people that know I’m not what some twisted and nasty individuals have been trying to portray me for months.”
“Thank you for the many supportive and kind messages I’ve received and keep on receiving. I will keep on being the genuine, loving and fun person I’ve always been and people have loved.”
Breaking her silence on their split, Ekin-Su wrote on her Instagram Stories: “Hi everyone, I thought it was time to come back online to thank you so much for all of your messages over the past 2 weeks.”
“It has shown me what a kind, supportive, strong community I have behind me. I took some much needed time away with my family which has been really special but now it’s time to realign & get back to work.”
“I have such an exciting year ahead & I want to fully focus on that. I really appreciate your ongoing support. Thank you for cheering me on.”
Ekin-Su and Davide’s photos of each other remain on their respective Instagram grid, and the Love Island winners continued to follow one another.
Ekin-Su and Davide shot to fame when they appeared on the 2022 series of Love Island.
The pair were a fan-favourite couple, and went on to win the series – beating runners up Gemma Owen and Luca Bish.
Shortly after leaving the villa, the fan-favourite contestants landed their own two-part show, Ekin-Su & Davide: Homecomings, which saw them travel to their native Turkey and Italy to meet each other’s families and experience each other’s cultures.
