Former Love Island star squashes Jacques O’Neill and Antigoni Buxton romance rumours: ‘They’re just good friends’-Stella Akinwumi-Entertainment – Metro

No, Jacques and Antigoni are not dating (Picture: REX/Backgrid)

Former Love Island star Charlie Radnedge has silenced all rumours over a budding romance between his co-stars Antigoni Buxton and Jacques O’Neill.

After the pair shared a snap of them treating their mothers to brunch, excited fans have been wondering whether something was brewing between the rugby ace, 23 and the singer, 26.

More fuel was added to the fire after Jacques and Antigoni were seen enjoying themselves in Manchester last week.

However, real estate developer Charlie, 28, has burst that bubble after confirming Jacques and Antigoni are ‘securely in the friendzone.’

After a fan questioned their relationship status on TikTok, Charlie said: ‘Antigoni and Jacques are definitely not dating, they’re just good friends.

‘Everyone keeps on asking this at the moment. Similar to myself and Antigoni, we’re securely in the friend zone.’ 

Antigoni made her villa debut halfway through the series, but was dumped after eight days in a brutal dumping which saw the boys saving Danica Taylor.

Jacques, meanwhile, quit the show after Casa Amor, in heartbreaking scenes where he admitted to former love interest Paige Thorne, 24, that he wasn’t feeling himself.

Since then, Paige has continued cracking on with returning bombshell Adam Collard, 26, but the couple’s potential place in Monday’s grand finale will be revealed tonight.

Attentive fans recently noticed that Jacques deleted all traces of Paige on his Instagram account, with one tweeting: ‘Jacques has unpinned his picture with Paige and cleared her from his profile. Safe to say he’s not going to pick her from the airport.’

‘Jacques deleted all his pictures with Paige so I assume she’s getting a taxi home,’ another remarked, while someone else speculated: ‘I do think Jacques deleting all the pictures of him and Paige off his Instagram is because he needs to do what is best for him, but I do believe that he has not completely deleted the pictures he has probably just archived all of the pictures.’

Jacques is currently projected to earn up to an eye-watering £69,000 per sponsored post on Instagram, according to digital agency 10 Yetis, with the star recently surpassing 1,000,000 followers on Instagram, just behind Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu.

Jacques branded his appearance on the show as ‘the worst decision of his life’ (Picture: ITV)

Lily Freeman, PR expert and account director at W Communications expects Jacques to currently be overwhelmed by sponsorship and job opportunities but urges the star to stick to his ‘niche’ to capitalise on his popularity.

‘Jacques has a really great opportunity coming out of the villa to forge himself a genuine niche by working with brands that align with existing passion points and personal experiences. He should really steer away from your classic teeth whitening or fast fashion brand deals.

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‘Whilst these offers are obviously going to be good for Jacques financially, if he starts working with loads of random brands it’s going to put brands off doing bigger, more authentic, partnerships with him.’

Love Island continues tonight at 9pm on ITV2.

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