Love Island star Kai Fagan has sent fans into a frenzy, after sharing a photo of his girlfriend Sanam Harrinanan wearing a ring on that finger.
The couple won the 2023 winter series of the dating show earlier this year, and have gone strength to strength since.
Kai took to Instagram on Saturday to post a stunning snap of Sanam wearing a ring, and he captioned the post: “A promise 💍”
One fan commented on the post: “Is this [an] engagement? X”, and another asked: “Wait are they engaged?”
Others rushed to congratulate the couple, before Kai took to the comment section to explained that he hasn’t proposed to Sanam just yet.
He wrote: “Btw guys it’s a promise ring! The big one will come soon dw.”
It comes after Kai and Sanam revealed they haven’t had many opportunities, such as daytime TV slots or photoshoots, since winning Love Island in January.
In a YouTube video, Kai admitted: “We don’t know [why]. We have no answer to that. We don’t really know why all previous Love Island winners before us, and even after us, were afforded such opportunities.”
“We can’t explain why – there’s no justification for it. I feel like since we’ve come out of the villa, all we’ve done is spend time with each other, build our relationship.”
Sanam interjected: “We just sort of cracked on with each other and our families. We found a home together, built our home together. Of course it would be amazing to be on the same level as others who have done what you’ve done, but at the same time we’re focusing on ourselves.”
Kai added: “That’s the most important thing – building our relationship, and making sure that we’re strong before anything else.”
“The thing is, you don’t expect anything. You don’t expect to go on there and get all these opportunities because you’re very naive, you go audition to go in and find love, and that’s what we found.”
“So we’re both really happy with that, and obviously things aren’t coming. We don’t know why, maybe we’re not what they want us to see because we don’t cause drama, we’re not in these certain circles, we don’t do certain things unusual – maybe that’s your answer, or maybe it’s something else.”
Elsewhere in the YouTube video, the former PE teacher said: “We represented a lot of people. Sanam’s Indo-Caribbean, I’m mixed white and Caribbean – my dad’s side are from Jamaica, my mum’s side are English.”
“I feel like we literally represent the diversity of the country here, that’s something to be celebrating about.”
Sanam explained: “I personally thought that would have been spoken about more, but I think – from what I saw – a lot of the focus was me being a Casa [Amor] girl and winning, which I mean yeah that’s well and good… But at the end of the day, what we believe is we represent more than that.”
Kai concluded: “We represent people of ethnic minority in the country being able to win one of the biggest TV shows in the world. That’s something that we’re really proud of.”
