Olivia Hawkinsis setting the record straight on her relationship status following her exit from theLove Island: All Starsvilla.
“We did really get on in the villa,” she says, but they simply “didn’t have enough time together in there before we got thrown out into the limelight.”
They’re still in touch, though, as she says “it’d be a shame to not keep in contact.” She adds: “We still speak every day, but I think we’ve just agreed that it’s more of a friendship.”
“I feel like potentially we could have developed something being in there,” she says of her connection with the Blazin' Squad alum.
“It’s just harder coming out after having so little time because then you have people’s opinions and our lives become so busy. It’s trying to find time to see each other. But yeah, I guess we’ll never know.”
Olivia admits she was surprised when she and Marcel were voted least compatible out of the villa — and against Nas (season 6) and Catherine (season 10) and Elma (season 5) and Ronnie (season 11) — considering she thinks that, “at that point in time in the villa, if anyone had voted for the top two most compatible couples, it would’ve been me and Marcel and Ekin-Su and Curtis.”
As she transitions back into normal life, Olivia still feels like there’s a camera following her at times and forgets she can “speak freely.”
“I’ve just been trying to kind of get back into a routine, which is hard when you come back because obviously you’re just flung out back into the public [eye].”
She’s also been catching up on the season. “Since we’ve left, it’s gone wild,” she says of how the season is developing. “It’s so strange. I can’t even imagine myself in there right now. I’ve detached myself. I look at them as characters again — it’s very bizarre.”
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source: people.com
