Love Island star Mitchel Taylor has broken his silence after Grace Jackson and Luca Bish's damning interview in which they accuse the All Stars series one star of "fabricating" screenshots of her texts.
The biggest controversy to come out of this year's Love Island: All Stars saw Olivia Hawkins publicly confront Grace ahead of the final, claiming that she saw her texts sent to a mysterious person in which she wrote that she would do anything to win.
While Grace denied that she sent the messages, Love Island co-star Luca Bish posted screenshots of the alleged messages on his social media, before later admitting that they could be "fake".
In one of their first interviews outside of the villa, Luca and Grace opened up about the scandal on yesterday's episode of Sophie Habboo and Melisa Tattam's podcast Wednesday. Grace revealed that she felt "so humiliated" by Olivia's claims, adding: "I just felt so embarrassed and I felt because that’s not in my character."
She added that Mitchel had reportedly admitted to lying about the screenshots. "He apparently said, 'I've got the screenshots. I can prove that I've got the screenshots.' Then posted afterwards saying, 'I didn't actually have the screenshots, I didn't want Grace and Luca to win.'
"Saying very negative things about me and Luca and wanted obviously for Casey and Gabby to win," she added.
Now, Mitchel has broken his silence since the explosive interview, taking to his Instagram story with his latest comment. When asked by a fan what he thought of Grace and Luca's remarks in the podcast episode, Mitchel said: "Who cares."
Ahead of the final, Mitch shared an apparent screen-recording of a message which was purportedly between Grace and someone else. The alleged messages from Grace read: "Aww thank you babe. I will win this time! I'll do anything to."
When asked for more information, Mitch told his Snapchat followers: "I don't know who the receipts are from, I got sent it loads all I know is Casey and Gabby won." When asked whether they were real, he said: "Don't care Casey and Gabby won."
After facing a backlash from fans, Mitch took to his Instagram story to address the comments last week. "Morning guys, the hate/death threats don't bother me but please stop sending hate and death threats to Hayley," he wrote.
"I've always had a love hate relationship with the public, but keep the beef on me don't involve my girlfriend. I appreciate you all."
