LOVE Island stars Whitney Adebayo and Lochan Nowacki are locked in a bitter race row just four months after their split.
Whitney has accused her ex of calling her skin ‘dirty’, a claim Lochan has strongly denied.
The pair who met on Love Island in 2023, are in a bitter feud which began when Whitney took to TikTok to post a video where she claimed one of her exes had made a derogatory remark towards her.
The reality beauty had penned that she had ‘fallen in love’ with the skin an unknown man had called ‘dirty’.
Fans flooded the comments questioning whether it was Lochan who had made the remark, with one fan penning: “I hope Lochan sues you for insinuating he’s racist.
“You were together 2 years and after the break up you remember he said you have a dirty body ? He’s dating a Black girl now after you. It’s not adding up.”
Whitney swiftly hit back replying: “ You can’t sue if it’s true, have a blessed day (heart emoji).”
This sent fans into a frenzy over the allegation leading her to quickly delete and then reupload the video.
Lochan has since responded to the claims, hitting out in his own 5 minute TikTok video.
The Love Island star sat down to recall his version of Whitney’s allegation, revealing his sadness and devastation towards the situation and adding he had ‘no choice’ but to now address it.
In a bid to ‘stand up and defend’ himself, he said: “About a year into my relationship with Whit, we were on a walk close to my flat.
"She got her nails done and she annoyingly put her nails in my face and was like ‘Oh my hands are so clean yours aren't’.
“And I was like 'no they're not' and I was kind of just annoyed her hands were in my face, but it was a very off the cuff remark. I just said no they're not.
“She looked at me in shock and was like 'you're calling me dirty' and you know, I was taken aback by that.
“I felt insulted that my girlfriend who I loved, who knows me, who knows that I would never insinuate something like that, is calling me a racist and saying you're calling my skin dirty.
“So I just want to first off say I've never called anyone's skin dirty and I would never, like that to me is the most upsetting comment.
He revealed that Whitney had allegedly threatened to expose him, saying: “I was getting told the world's going to see, you know, the racist that you are, and that was super upsetting for me because I love her family.
“And then, on top of that having the comment to say the world's going to see the real you, I of course was scared because I was like: this narrative of something that has been taken completely out of context is now going to be shown to the world, as it has been done now.”
Lochan went on to then address a Whatsapp conversation that was shared between him and Whitney’s sister Liz which was posted online.
The message from Lochan read: "Please speak to Whit she is fully done and I feel awful but I never said it thinking her skin is dirty I feel sick I crossed line with joke but she she she can't look at me the same. I don't know what to do Liz "
He revealed that he had sent this message whilst in ‘panic mode’ and went on to share a text exchange in which Liz had reassured him, saying: “I know you’re not racist Loch!!”
Whitney has also now come out with her own response video just hours after ex Lochan posted his.
In the nine minute clip uploaded to TikTok she reaffirms her claims and gives fans her own version of events.
She began: “We were walking back from lunch, going back to his place and I was in the sun and I was like, babe look how my skin glistens in the sun and he looked at me and he was like, ‘ugh it's dirty’.
“And then only when I lashed out he was like, it was a joke and he was crying, he called all my family members saying it was a joke."
She added: “I’m not even here saying Lochan is a racist, I'm here saying that he made racial slurs towards me."
Whitney later spoke about the microaggressions she had reportedly faced from Lochan to which she branded him a ‘culture vulture’.
She said: “Lochan is a culture vulture. He clocked that his audience is predominantly Black so he's constantly trying to tap into the culture.
“But the same culture he stripped me of, the same culture he told me I was too ghetto, I was too loud.”
