Love Island Australia‘s Gabby recently came forward claiming that Jotham had a girlfriend the whole time he was on the show, and now she’s revealed how she found out.
ICYMI, in late November, Gabby was asked by TikToker Olan Tekkers why her then on-screen partner Jotham wasn’t at an event with her, and she claimed he was “at home with his girlfriend that he had the whole time throughout the whole show”.
While Jotham has since rubbished her claims and said that Gabby wanted to sabotage him winning the show, which is decided by a public vote, she’s doubled down on her claims in an interview with Chattr.
Gabby explained that she learned about the girl Jotham was apparently dating before the show when several of the male Islanders told her after they left the villa.
“He told all the boys that he had a girl on the outside. The boys told it back to me,” she told Chattr.
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She added that she believes Jotham used Hotel Amor as an excuse to end things with her, because of the mystery woman.
“He pretty much said to [the guys], he couldn’t keep stringing me along in the villa, hence why he brought someone back from Hotel Amor. He was flexing to all the boys when he came out the villa that he had someone on the outside.”
Gabby went on to dismiss Jotham, who’s claimed in interviews that he was never seeing anyone seriously before coming onto Love Island Australia.
“He can say what we want, but he said those words to the boys, and they all came and told me. I went in there open-minded, open-hearted and looking for someone. And he took that experience away from me because he was thinking of someone else on the outside.”
When asked whether she believed Jotham entered the villa with genuine intentions, Gabby didn’t hold back.
“No, of course not. He went in there for a bit of fun and to get some Instagram followers.”
What did Jotham say about the claims that he had a girlfriend while on Love Island?
After Gabby’s clip about Jotham’s alleged girlfriend started going viral, he told TV WEEK that while he was casually dating prior to coming on the show, he never had a girlfriend.
“I was definitely talking to someone before the villa – to a few people. Some I was seeing more than others. But it was pretty much just that. I barely even went on dates. I haven’t really been much of a dater on the outside. I don’t do dinner dates,” he said.
He also claimed that Gabby only dropped the bombshell to shift public opinion back in her favour.
“Right before she’d done that, she was copping a lot of hate from the public,” he said.
If this mystery woman is out there, now would be a great time to spill the tea.
Love Island Australia airs Monday – Thursday on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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