ELLIE Brown has split from Michael Griffiths, sharing with fans that she “does not have a boyfriend”, days after Michael insisted she was the “one”.
Taking to Instagram, she shared a video and told fans: “I want to clear up that I do not have a boyfriend. I did not find the one, and that picture is from five months ago – we all have pictures together.”
The picture she is referencing is one that Michael shared on Instagram last night of the pair of them cuddling.
She concluded: “I do not have a boyfriend.”
The former Love Island pair got together last year after filming the MTV reality show and 28-year-old Michael recently opened up about their relationship – claiming he was well and truly smitten.
He told The Sun Online: “Ellie and I did form a good bond on the show. The relationship we built was unbelievable. To have someone as amazing as her in my life means so much. I’m head over heels and I’m not letting her go.”
Discussing how romance blossomed on the show, which kicked off on Tuesday, he said: “Initially I just opened up to her because we were both from up north, she was a friendly face and I guess we have a lot in common both being on Love Island.
“She instantly felt like home. But then it grew into a lot more. She helped me open up and believe in myself a lot more.”
However on Wednesday the pair opened up on their split, with Michael claiming that he never wanted it to “progress any way because I thought that I would hurt her”.
“I don’t want it to go anywhere because I know I’m gonna hurt [Ellie],” he told Raj and Pilar on The Reality Tea podcast.
“And I don’t want to lose the friendship that I’ve got with [her] because I adore Ellie, like I do.”
Ellie added: “It’s such a tough one, I don’t even think we really understand it.
“I think it’s more just that we hit the nail on the head before.
“Like you always said, you never go beyond that point because you didn’t want me to get feelings or whatever and then I think when it did go beyond that point, that’s when it got a bit messy.
“And it was kind of just like it had to be left.”
Ellie hooked up with Charlie Brake on the 2018 version of the ITV2 dating show before splitting in a bitter break up months later.
Michael famously dumped Amber Gill on Love Island last summer and coupled up with Joanna Chimonides.
But when she was voted out of the villa he didn’t go with her and then later tried to get back with Amber – who rejected him for Greg O’Shea.
Michael shared he was “hesitant” about signing up for Ex On The Beach because of his past experiences.
“I didn’t know if I was going to be painted out as the villain again or whether I would be able to change people’s perceptions of me”, he said.
