JAKE Cornish says Love Island ex Liberty Poole seemed “sour” and “bitter” in the villa and thinks she tried to cast him as the villain.
The All Stars quitter has opened up on his short stint in Cape Town to The Sun’s Cracking On podcast and revealed how the conversations with his villa ex really went.
The pair split at the end of their 2021 series and haven’t seen each other since – until bosses reunited them for All Stars.
Viewers saw Liberty grimace as Jake walked through the villa doors.
Jake told The Sun: “I felt like it was a bit sour. Like, oh here he is.
“Let’s go at him again.
“In reality I’ve grown up, I’ve matured in two years.
“So when it was them faces, and the comments of like ‘he gives me the ick’, I took on the chin, I’m not going to cry about it.
“Whereas obviously the conversation we had, she said, ‘I feel like you’re ignoring me’ – it was just the way she come into the conversation, was just a bit bitter.”
Jake thought Liberty might come in as a bombshell instead of being there waiting on day one.
Asked if he felt like he was made to look like the villain, Jake said: “When I seen her from the get-go, it took me back a bit, like here we go again. It was a bit depleting.
“It felt like, oh it’s happening again.
“That was the first conversation we had, and I just think, if you’ve matured, and we’ve got no bad blood, you’d have a conversation about ‘how are you getting on’, and hope you’re okay and stuff.
“Whereas hers was, ‘I feel like you’re ignoring me’.”
Jake and Liberty were paired together by the public.
He added: “I knew straight away they were gonna put me and Lib together, because… Listen! It could have been drama. It could have been fine.
“But I know the British public way too well!”
Elsewhere, Jake opened up on whether Callum Jones and Molly Smith are faking their break up, the moment where he knew he had to leave the villa and what he feels like is missing from All Stars.
This time round Jake says he has emerged to an onslaught of well wishes.
He said: “Hand on my heart, I’ve had thousands of messages and they’ve all been good. There’s so many.”
Now he plans to build on his DJ career and has a diary packed with appearances.
He added: “I’ve been DJing for over a year now and so I’ll be spending the year travelling with that.
“I’ve got loads of booking across Europe – I’ve got a residency in Zante, Malia, Dubai.”
