Paige Thorne opens up on speculation she’s dating Jacques O’Neill after bitter Adam Collard split
LOVE Island star Paige Thorne has confirmed that she is not dating Jacques O’Neill after her bitter split with ex Adam Collard.
The 24-year-old Welsh star insisted she is not back together with rugby player Jacques, 23, after the pair recently reconnected.
“There has been slight contact,” she revealed on the Saving Grace podcast.
“No contact with the lips. Let’s not forget how this boy done me in Casa [Amor].
“Obviously, we had a vibe in there. But he done me over. D**khead. Fine. But we’re just going to see where things go. I am in zero rush to be with a man because men are trash.”
Paige admitted they’ve been in contact with fellow Islander Jacques, but the pair are currently just “friends”.
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“It’s spreading that me and Jacques are back in contact, and we’re going to be ‘reunited’ and all this kind of thing,” she told Cosmopolitan Magazine.
“We’ve literally had one conversation on the phone. It’s just friends. Everyone can chill out with the speculation that ‘Paige and Jacques, she’s going to go back to him’. It’s not quite like that. We’re just friends.”
It comes after Paige she had seen MORE videos of him “cheating” after they were sent to her by horrified Love Island fans.
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Paige, 24, called time on her romance with Adam, 26, after a clip released earlier this month appeared to show him getting close with someone he met in a nightclub.
She has now insisted that this was the tip of the iceberg, and in a new interview claimed he had gone behind her back on multiple occasions.
But just hours after her cheating claims, Adam revealed he had to pull out of a public appearance, saying he was “unwell”.
Taking to Twitter the hunk in trunks wrote: “Unfortunately I’ll not be able to make it to Isle of Wight tomorrow due to flu like symptoms.
“Apologies but it will be rescheduled for a later date.”
Yesterday Paige lifted the lid on all the videos she had been sent which claimed to show Adam cheating.
In interview she said: “It’s not just those videos. There are other videos that people don’t know about – so there’s a lot more to the story – of different people, from the same night, in different locations.”
Paige revealed she initially gave Adam the benefit of the doubt and said that he wasn’t necessarily cheating by having his arm around the girl in McDonald’s.
But, appearing on the Saving Grace podcast, she added: ” Then other videos come out, with other girls, and it’s like, I can’t justify this.”
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Claiming that one of the clips she received was filmed in the VIP toilets of a club, she said: “I would love to go ham, but is it worth my energy? No.
“We had a great time, a nice time, but deep down I always knew I was going to get done over.”
Speaking to The Sun at the National Television Awards about his split from Paige, Adam said: “We’re not together. Things happen. But I mean she is a great girl.”