Love Island: All Stars crowns Molly and Tom as first ever winners

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Molly Smith and Tom Clare have been topped the winners of the first Love Island: All Stars.

The pair beat Molly’s ex-boyfriend Callum Jones and his new companion Jessica Gale, who completed as runners-up throughout the closing episode on Monday evening.

Fellow islanders Sophie Piper and Joshua Ritchie got here third, Georgia Steel and Toby Aromolaran positioned fourth and Georgia Harrison and Anton Danyluk completed fifth within the spin-off of the hit ITV courting present, which noticed previous contestants return for a second probability at discovering love within the villa.

After being declared the winners and securing the £50,000 prize, Tom advised host Maya Jama, “My mind’s blown” – whereas Molly was visibly shaking as she shouted, “What the hell”.

Molly beforehand starred in collection six in 2020 and left the present with Callum, who she was in a relationship with for 3 years earlier than they cut up.

While footballer Tom beforehand got here third place on the second winter version of Love Island in 2023 with former companion Samie Elishi.

When Callum first entered the villa as a bombshell, he initially selected to couple up with ex-girlfriend Molly as he felt they nonetheless wanted to clear the air on their previous relationship.

Talking about navigating romance inside the villa together with her ex there, Molly stated: “I think obviously from the outside looking in, people won’t understand.

“We’re in an intense environment and you’ve got to get along so it kind of forced us to be friends.

“We probably wouldn’t be at this stage on the outside, it probably would have just been a bit awkward, but I feel like it’s got us to a place that we never would have gotten to, and I’m actually grateful for that.”

Discussing how viewers had been eager for them to rekindle their relationship, host Maya stated she might “relate” as individuals had been encouraging her to get again together with her previous companion, grime star Stormzy.

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She stated: “I did have a lot of people saying I should get back with my ex – sometimes it’s not what you’re ready for.”

The host, who has not too long ago acquired again along with the British rapper, revealed he was sat within the viewers, including: “It’s worked out well in the end.”

Earlier within the episode, Sophie and Joshua each admitted they’d by no means been this “soppy” in a relationship earlier than after putting third within the actuality collection.

Sophie stated she felt they’d each “grown so much together” within the villa and Joshua stated he was eager to make their relationship official once they acquired again within the outdoors world.

Georgia S and Toby, who had beforehand courting earlier than the present, had an off-and-off once more relationship inside the villa with Georgia S pairing with Callum for a interval whereas Toby coupled up with former islander Arabella Chi briefly.

Toby later shocked the opposite islanders by selecting to return to Georgia S, which she stated introduced them nearer collectively as “it was us two against everything”.

The couple confirmed they’re “locked in” and have plans to make issues official after they each met one another’s households.

After they had been introduced as ending in fifth place, Anton stated he was initially drawn to Georgia H from the offset as he feels she “stands out from everyone in the room” and had “such a big personality”.

He admitted that he discovered it “quite hard” when different islanders questioned how real their relationship was however they confirmed the plan to nonetheless date one another after leaving the villa.

The finale episode additionally noticed singer Ella Henderson carry out a medley of her hit songs for all of the islanders.

Maya Jama hosted the reside closing from the ITV2 present’s South African villa whereas a cheering viewers watched on.