Paige Thorne has addressed speculation she’s rekindled her romance with Jacques O’Neill.
The Welsh paramedic had been couple up with the rugby player on Love Island 2022; however, Casa Amor saw their relationship hit the rocks.
Just days later, the “ultimate bombshell” Adam Collard entered the villa and started grafting Paige.
Jacques sensationally quit Love Island, but promised to wait for Paige outside the villa.
However, Paige ultimately placed fifth with Adam on the show, missing out on a coveted spot in the grand final.
Paige and Adam have since called it quits, after a video of the Newcastle native cosying up to a mystery blonde in McDonald’s went viral last September.
Fans have been calling for the paramedic to rekindle her romance with Jacques, after they were spotted cosying up at an event in Manchester at the end of last year.
Speaking on the Not My Bagg podcast, Paige joked: “Honestly, when I watch the [Love Island] edits – cause they’re always of me and Jacques – I’m falling back in love, and I’m like ‘oh my God, he’s my Prince Charming!'”
Getting candid, the Welsh paramedic said: “Jacques is a funny one, cause really well and truly, we’re not friends, are we? We’re not actually friends because we liked each other.”
“I just don’t think you can be just mates with somebody that you have that for. You actually can’t. With him, it’ll always be that thing of like ‘what could it have been?’, but we’ll just never know now. We chat, obviously we chat. We do chat.”
When asked whether she and Jacques had been out on a date, Paige admitted: “Not a date as such. I have seen him, but no, it wasn’t a date. It wasn’t a date, it wasn’t a date! – cut.”
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It comes just months after Paige exclusively told Goss.ie that she and Jacques are “on good terms”.
At our #GossCountdown Show back in March, the paramedic admitted she contemplated leaving the show when Jacques quit.
The Wales native told us: “We had talked about it, he had said he was thinking about leaving, and it was like ‘if I leave with him, I don’t have the security of him actually being my boyfriend right now. So am I leaving for something that might not even come anyway?’”
“I just needed that security. I probably would’ve left with him if he was like ‘no, we are together.’”
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