PIAGE Turley and Finley Tap were one of Love Island rare success stories — at least until their breakup.
The pair are appearing on a massive reality show in 2024 — here we take a look at what happened, and why they decided to call it quits.
Paige and Finn met on the winter series of the ITV2 dating show in 2020.
Viewers fell in love with the couple as they went on to win the first ever Love Island series filmed in South Africa.
They stayed together for three years after the show finished.
After winning the show in 2020, the couple swiftly moving into a swanky apartment in Manchester together, and then lockdown hit.
They said at the time that the experience of going through the Covid-19 pandemic together helped their relationship, as they grew closer than ever.
Their split actually seemed almost friendly — but it’s still going to be awkward being on another reality show together again
A TV insider
Finn spoke about wanting to spend the rest of his life with Paige a year after winning the show.
He told The Sun: “Paige is deffo the one, I’m deffo going to be the one to pop the question.”
“I’ve got a plan, I’m not putting a timescale on it, it’s when the time is right, but within the next two years or so.
“Paige and I have always spoken about an abroad wedding, we might do two weddings, a close intermediate wedding with family and then a big party here with everyone.”
In a grand gesture to declare his love, Finn had Paige’s name inked on his arm above a previous butterfly tattoo in August 2021.
But in 2022 fans feared she and the former footballer had broken up.
This was mainly down to the fact they weren’t posting about each on social media, and hadn’t been seen out in public together for a few months — but they later insisted everything was fine.
Paige hit back at speculation saying: “I’m not being funny, if I get one more message going ‘Where’s Finn? Where’s Finn?'”
She then jokingly added: “I hope he’s still in the cage in the living room where I left him. Or at least he f****** should be.”
Three years after meeting on the show, Paige and Finn went their separate ways in April 2023.
On June 11, 2023 Paige, 26, joined best pal Shaughna Phillips on Love Island’s Aftersun, where she opened up about the split for the first time.
Host Maya Jama asked her: “Paige, sadly you and Finn did break-up recently, can we ask what happened? Is it a secret?”
The Scottish babe replied: “No no, we’re still good friends, I think we drifted apart.
“We did lockdown together, any struggle that we could have faced, we were facing.
“It was tough, but we are still good friends.”
Maya then asked: “Are you looking now?,” to which Paige confirmed she is happily single and taking a break from the dating scene.
She said: “Oh no, not for a while.
“But if he [Paige] was back in then there’d be trouble — we’re not having an Adam Collard bombshell situation.”
Maya added: “So he’s banned from being a bombshell,” with newly-single Paige replying: “Yeah… yeah.”
Speaking about the breakup, a source said: “Paige and Finn had a really good run, but they are still super young and decided it wasn’t forever in the end.
“Paige is spending some time back in Scotland while she works out what she wants to do next.”
In December 2023 Finn, 24, sparked romance rumours with Married At First Sight Australia legend Tamara Joy.
He was photographed in Melbourne, Australia partying with Tamara and fellow Love Island alum Joe Garratt.
Since then there haven’t been any reports of Finn dating anyone, so it isn’t publicly know who — or if — he is dating.
Since the end of her relationship with Fin, there have been no reports of Paige dating anyone new.
There also hasn’t been any gossip, so as she told Maya on Aftersun, maybe she really is been taking a break from men.
After being filmed in the summer of 2023, Celebrity Ex on the Beach will air in March 2024.
Finn came face to face with Paige on the MTV reality dating show, and while there were no hard feelings, it was still a little tense on set.
A TV insider told The Sun: “There are some Love Island exes who would never wish to share the screen with each other ever again.
“These two aren’t like that — their split actually seemed almost friendly — but it’s still going to be awkward being on another reality show together again.
“Maybe we’ll see romance, though I probably wouldn’t hold my breath.”
