Love Island’s Zara Deniz appears to have taken a swipe at her co-star Tanya Manhenga as she “threatened to take Shaq”.
The 25-year-old shared a TikTok video, lip-syncing to the viral sound: “I can take your man if I want to, but lucky for you I don’t want to…”
Zara has since deleted the video from her TikTok profile.
It comes after Tanya shocked fans when she admitted that she and Zara had an argument in unaired scenes.
Speaking in a YouTube video, the 22-year-old revealed: “I had an argument with Zara that nobody saw, that never got aired. Me and Zara had an argument. She was like ‘I need to f**king speak to you’.”
“It was because I’d had a conversation wit Zara, she was venting about why she was upset that night with Olivia. And I said ‘why did you pick her in the first place, in the game?'”
“And she was like ‘because I know her and I feel comfortable’, and I was like ‘Oh, that makes sense. People are gonna love this at home on TV because you guys are friends,” and she was like ‘I know’.”
Tanya revealed she spoke to Olivia about the conversation, who immediately misinterpreted it as Zara purposely targeting her.
Olivia later confronted Zara, and Zara then snapped at Tanya for explaining the situation wrong.
Tanya revealed: “Then I got up and went after her straight, then we got separated. I got taken outside and the boys told her to go to the beach hut.”
Zara later addressed her co-star’s claims, telling On Demand Entertainment: “Tanya came to me on the bean bags and said, ‘Why did you pick Liv?’ [as the most two-faced contestant] I said I know her, if I picked anyone else they might thought I had a problem with them, she wouldn’t take it deep.”
“Then Tanya said will the audience make good TV. Then the producers said they weren’t airing that we knew each other.”
“Then Tanya went and relayed our whole conversation to Liv, when she knows Liv is already upset with me and said I know Zara picked you to make good TV.”
Zara continued: “Then it all got spun and then when I spoke to Liv, I broke down in tears. I thought I had a friend in Tanya and she just spun it to Tanya to make me look bad, that’s when the producers stepped in.”
“I was in tears and then I wanted to speak to Tanya. For her to bring that up now, I got upset and started crying because it’s another negative moment from the villa and your brought it back up again.”
“I feel like we were really good friends in there – but just from coming out and seeing.”
“Even on movie night they played a clip of me and Shaq talking and Shaq was really flirty with me and Tanya was like, ‘Oh you want to flirt with that girl’.”
Zara continued to tell the publication: “I just wouldn’t address a friend like that. Right at the beginning when I was talking to Shaq and realised it was more friends, I went to Tanya and said I’m not interested in that way with Shaq and she said she was stressing out because I’m more his type than me but I was like, ‘Girl, he’s all for you’.”
“She then ran and told Shaq that ‘Zara doesn’t like you’ and I wonder why Shaq was off with me for a few days but I thought I was having girl code by telling Tanya.”
