Lochan Nowacki Defends Against Whitney Adebayo’s ‘Dirty Skin’ Claims, Calls Racism Allegations Insulting

Love Island star Lochan has hit out at his ex-girlfriend Whitney Adebayo’s claims he called her skin ‘dirty’ during their relationship.

The former couple announced in April that they had gone their separate ways, with Whitney, 27, hinting at the time that that it was Lochan’s decision by writing ‘I’m broken’. 

However, it appears that things have soured between the pair – who fell for each other in the 2023 series of the ITV2 show – as Whitney seemingly made an allegation of racism against her ex.

In a post shared to her TikTok last week – which was deleted after going viral before being reposted – Whitney modelled a bright pink bikini, over which she wrote: ‘You look happier’.

Then in another image of her wowing in the strapless two-piece while chilling on a sun lounger, she added: ‘Thanks! I finally fell in love with my skin he used to call dirty.’

Amid the furore following Whitney’s post, Lochan took to TikTok on Sunday to defend himself against the claim, remarking that he felt ‘insulted’ by her allegation that he is racist. 

Speaking to the camera, Lochan told how he and his family are ‘devastated and upset’ by Whitney’s words, noting he had ‘no choice’ but to address the situation. 

He then went on to give his version of events, telling how the drama began when the former couple went for a walk and Whitney put her nails ‘in my face’ while showing off her manicure.

He said: ‘She annoyingly put her nails in my face and said, “My hands are so clean, yours aren’t.” And I said, “No they’re not”.’

Lochan continued: ‘I was just annoyed her hands were in my face – it was a very off the cuff remark. She looked at me in shock and said, “You’re calling me dirty.”

‘I was taken aback by that. I felt insulted that my girlfriend – who I loved, who knows me, who knows that I would never insinuate something like that – is calling me a racist. 

‘I want to first off say I’ve never called someone’s skin dirty, I would never. That to me is the most upsetting comment.’

He went on to add that he was ‘super upset’ at the time and it was an ’emotional day’ for the pair, before noting that at the time Whitney snapped at him: ‘The world is gonna see you for the racist that you are’.

Lochan then told how he contacted Whitney’s sister Liz to try and clear up the situation, with him sharing a screenshot of messages between them in which she insists he’s not a racist. 

However, Liz’s words are in contrast to a previous post she shared defending her sister against the backlash she received following her allegation, with Liz seemingly showing proof of Lochan’s racist comment. 

A screenshot of an alleged message from Lochan reads: ‘Please speak to whit she is fully cone and I feel awful but I never said it thinking her skin is dirty I feel sick I crossed line with joke but she she she can’t look at me the same. I don’t know what to do Liz.’

Over the top of her post, she penned: ‘The fact that evidence is needed is absurd to me why can’t women speak and be heard? I’m tired of seeing people constantly paint my sister as this person and jumping on the ‘hate Whitney’ bandwagon.

‘I know what she went through and the fact that it took this long for her to heal and share her truth to be shamed is vile. As women we’ve all stayed in situations that didn’t serve us but when you get out, that’s when you really start to become a woman.’

She then concluded: ‘Be kind and give grace.’ 

Meanwhile, Whitney took to TikTok on Sunday in retaliation against Lochan’s video, with her then sharing her experience of what happened.

Directly calling out her ex, she told the camera: ‘Lochan, are we doing this? Are we really going to go down the nice boy puppy dog look? Really?’

She went on: ‘Back to the situation of how it happened. We were walking back from lunch going back to his place and I was in the sun and I was like “Babe, look how my skin glistens in the sun”

‘And he looked at me and was like “urgh, it’s dirty” and then only when I lashed out, he was like “oh, it was a joke, it was a joke” and he was crying, he called all of my family members saying “it was a joke!”

‘Because Lochan gives off this golden retriever energy, no-one would ever believe that he would say it maliciously but you guys know I have dark humour, I know when something’s a joke and when something is said seriously and then span into ‘it’s a joke’.

Whitney then spoke about microaggressions she faced in their relationships before accusing him of being a ‘culture vulture’ – which Urban Diction describes as ‘A person or an organisation making profit using unhonorable practices from a culture they do not care for.’

Whitney exclaimed: ‘Lochan is a culture vulture. He clocked that his audience is predominantly black so he’s constantly trying to tap into the culture.

‘But the same culture he stripped me of, the same culture he told me I was too ghetto, too loud, my family can’t come to his sister’s events because we’ll steal the attention.’

Daily Mail have contacted both Lochan and Whitney’s representatives for comment.