Welsh Love Islander opens up about 'struggle' on the show that saw them lose nine kilos

Ciaran Davies and Nicole Samuel on Love Island
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Love Island's Welsh runner-ups Ciaran Davies and Nicole Samuel have reflected on their time on the ITV2 reality series, with Ciaran revealing what the "worst thing" he experienced while being on the show.

The couple nabbed second place during the show’s final in July and appear to have been going from strength to strength in their relationship since leaving the villa, sharing lots of pictures and TikToks of them looking loved up.

In one interview outside of the villa, Bridgend-born Ciaran revealed that the meals on the ITV2 show were not quite to his tastes, he told Cosmopolitan UK: "For me, the worst thing is probably the food that we had at lunch and dinner." For the latest TV & Showbiz news, sign up to our newsletter

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He added in the interview, which Nicole also took part in: "Honestly it wasn't my cup of tea. I know some of the other people enjoyed it. I couldn't eat it.

"I think I lost like nine kg from my time in there so yeah, struggled with the food. You wake up, and it's not as if you have enough time for breakfast, either. You're literally eating like a spag-bol for breakfast. I think for the first week I didn't actually touch the food.

"I was just eating Magnums from the freezer all the time. Yeah, you know if anybody wants to do a bit of weight loss, try and get on Love Island and try and eat the food."

Nicole also noted her least favourite part of being on Love Island was the fact she could not always wear the clothes she had wanted to. She said: "The worst for me was probably the strobing on the outfits. So I don't know if anyone's heard of this but I brought so many outfits for the first week thinking 'yeah they're gonna rock, they're gonna smash it.'

"And then I'd put them on and they'd be like, no you're not allowed to wear that because of strobes. It was like all the mesh, all pattern, certain cottons you wasn't allowed to wear and at the end I was scraping the clothes together, literally."