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New bombshell Grace reveals ‘frosty’ split from Joey Essex – and when he last messaged her before Love Island
Watch Joey on his date out of the villa with starstruck Samantha in the video above
NEW Love Island girl Grace Jackson has opened up on her "frosty" split from Joey Essex.
The stunning influencer will make her villa debut tonight, along with fellow bombshells Tiffany Leighton and Wil Anderson, and it's taken Towie legend Joey by surprise.
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Viewers will find out what happened between them and it could lead to some awkward conversations.
As the three enter, Joey says: “Oh my God.”
He then tells Sean: “I used to see that girl, bruv…that blonde girl.”
Sensing something is off, his partner Samantha Kenny asks: “Do you know her?”
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Joey replies: “Yeah…it’s a long story man…”
Samantha says: “Did you used to see her?”
As the girls get to know Tiffany and Grace, Nicole Samuel asks: “So how do you know Joey then?
Grace answers: “So, we met last year in Ibiza and it's actually funny because he's not my type at all. We had a bit of a holiday romance.
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"It carried on when we were back home. It was quite intense. We were seeing each other for a few months. It kind of ended a little bit frosty to be honest and we've not really spoken since.”
The surprise reunion follows Joey's cousin Frankie Sims sharing her views on his budding romance with Samantha.
Joey Essex's sister Frankie breaks her silence on his ex's bombshell arrival in the Love Island villa
She said: "She is the one that I chose for him before he even selected anyone. I think she's really pretty. She's definitely his type.
"Obviously the whole lack of affection the past couple of episodes is unusual, so I don't know whether he's just trying to take it slow with her and he's into it with her in a mature way, or whether he's waiting for somebody else to come in."
Much has been made of Joey's body language each time Samantha reels off a Towie quote, with suggestions he looks uncomfortable.
But Frankie believes he wouldn't have entertained Samantha for this long if she really was a crazed Towie superfan.
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"I'm really unsure about whether she's quoting it all the time or whether the edit is just making it look like she's a superfan," she admitted.
"I don't think he would be with someone if he thought they were a superfan. I think he would quite easily jump ship.
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"So I don't think he's as dramatic in the villa is what they're making it look.
"He definitely does like her because he would have jumped ship by now, I'm sure."
No couples are safe and ALL the boys could have their heads turned in Casa Amor
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At this stage, it's easy to see how that could definitely happen.
I'd love to believe Ciaran and Nicole could be an early on love story, but I just fear that we're so early that there could be bombshells that are going to come in multiple times.
And also I just have in the back of my mind Casa Amor and only time will tell, but I don't have high hopes for Ciaran being able to stay completely committed the entire way through, no.
I think if someone was to come in new and exciting Joey's head could be turned, and the same with Ronnie.
Ronnie seems to really be enjoying having his cake and eating it at the moment. So I think an environment like Casa Amor more would probably exacerbate that.
You've got the likes of Sean, who seems like a lovely guy and hasn't found his person yet. I think he would obviously love for Casa Amor more to happen.
Media company ’s relationship expert Jessie Hutter told The Sun on behalf of
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