Yana was left pleasantly surprised when Dylan greeted her at Love Island Australia‘s Hotel Amor, revealing that the two had been sending flirty messages before she was cast on the show.
When host Sophie Monk pressed them on who messaged who first, the Islanders bickered and couldn’t agree on a clear answer.
However, Yana has not cleared up what happened between her and Dylan before the show, saying that he was the one who reached out to her.
“So this is what happened. So it’s probably… a week after I broke up with Kye, I got a message from Dylan,” she told Eoghan McDermott on Officially Unpacked.
“I went back and checked the screenshots, because I have them, and the first message was, ‘I see you’ with two googly eyes. And then I was like, ‘Oh, hello Dylan, something like that.’ I don’t know, he was definitely trying a lot.”
Yana went on to reveal that after exchanging a few messages, rather than asking her on a date, Dylan invited her to come to his house.
“We had a bit of a flirt, but it was definitely a bit one-sided,” she said. “He was like, I’ve got a new place in Paddington, or wherever he was.”
The Sydney-based tradie said she was shocked by Dylan’s forward invite and was turned off when she realised his intentions.
“He was like, ‘Yeah, come over’. I don’t know, I need to look at the screenshots, but I remember just palming it off, like I was thinking, ‘I’m not that easy’.
“Like, who does he think he is to think that he can just message me to come over for a one-night thing? And then I remember I kept texting him, and I was like, ‘Why am I even bothering to text this man? He clearly wants nothing else but me in his bed.’ And so I found it pretty funny when he picked me for [Hotel Amor], because I was like, ‘Oh, he finally got what he wanted back then, by having me in his bed.'”
Why Yana stuck by the boundaries she set with Kye for Hotel Amor
Prior to heading to the Hotel Amor mixer, where the Islanders met the new bombshells, Yana set some ground rules for her ex-turned Love Island partner, Kye, asking him not to be physical with anyone else. The boundaries were especially important for Yana, because he’d cheated on her before the show.
The Islanders were then separated by gender and headed off separately to meet two new bombshells of the opposite sex. Those bombs were given the power to choose an Islander each for an overnight stay at Hotel Amor, and Dylan chose Yana while Emma chose Kye.
“I was really happy to be picked by Dylan,” Yana said on the podcast. “Out of all the boys, I had this connection with Dylan where it was like, I felt like we already had something, and so I felt really comfortable being with him.”
However, Yana said, despite the familiarity, she didn’t consider betraying Kye and hooking up with Dylan at Hotel Amor.
“When I got picked, I was like, ‘Oh, hell yeah’. Like, I’ll be happy to spend the night here, but I’m not crossing boundaries. Because I knew what I had set with Kye, and I knew that I wanted to stick to that, and it was nothing to do with me not wanting to do anything. I’m sure if Kye wasn’t in the picture, Dylan and I would have tried something like, we would have got to know each other on a deeper level.
“But I had those boundaries in place, and I had Kye in my mind then. So I was like, ‘No, I’m not going to ruin what I’ve been building for a one-night thing.'”
Love Island Australia 2025 airs Monday – Thursday on 9Now.
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