Claudia Fogarty has shared her new relationship as she confirmed the rumours she is dating professional footballer Ollie Cranshaw.
The Love Island star, 29, shared a slew of loved-up photos from a recent date night with her boyfriend, alongside the caption: ‘Finally found my happiness’.
The reality personality’s former fling Casey O’Gorman was among her followers sharing their approval for her new relationship in the comments section.
Casey, who recently revealed they had ‘crossed friendship boundaries’ since leaving the villa, commented a string of love hearts under the post.
Claudia and Casey first met on the 2023 winter edition of Love Island, however they first went their separate ways when his head was turned by bombshell Rosie.
Following the failed romance, Claudia has since enjoyed a series of dates with Ollie, a 25-year old winger who currently plays for Altrincham in the National League.
It’s official! Claudia Fogarty has shared her new relationship as she confirmed the rumours she is dating professional footballer Ollie Cranshaw
Love-up: The Love Island star, 29, shared a slew of loved-up photos from a recent date night with her boyfriend, alongside the caption: ‘Finally found my happiness’
Sharing an insight into one of their date nights, Claudia and Ollie cosied up while sat next to eachother at dinner as well as posing in a kitchen in front of a mirror.
The couple were dining at Meraki at Sakku Samba in Manchester and were later pictured enjoying a smooch as they left the venue.
Other celebrity pals to send their congratulations included Georgia Harrison and her Love Island co-star Tom Clare, who said: ‘Love it guys!’
Las week, Claudia confirmed she had been on a cosy cinema date with Ollie by sharing a photo of their popcorn and sweets as they settled down to watch a film.
In a second post she alludes to their apparent closeness by revealing they both wore matching Adidas trainers while out on another date.
Captioning a shot of their identical footwear, she wrote: ‘who copied who? @ollycrankshaw.’
Casey recently admitted that he and Claudia were engaged in a ‘friends with benefits’ relationship after leaving the Cape Town villa earlier this year.
The pair fell for each other while filming winter series, but he soon had his head turned by bombshell Rosie Seabrook, leaving Claudia devastated.
Confirmed: The couple were dining at Meraki at Sakku Samba in Manchester and were later pictured enjoying a smooch as they left the venue
Approved! Other celebrity pals to send their congratulations included Georgia Harrison and her Love Island co-star Tom Clare, who said: ‘Love it guys!’
Hoping for a Hollywood ending: Taking to Instagram, Claudia confirmed she had been on a cosy cinema date with the footballer by sharing a photo of their popcorn and sweets
But his romance with Rosie soon went south, with Casey ‘ghosting’ her only two weeks after returning to the United Kingdom.
Weeks later he hinted at a possible reunion with Claudia, but has since admitted they ‘overstepped the friendship boundary’.
Speaking to the Goss Island podcast, he said: ‘We might have overstepped the friendship boundary maybe once or twice on a night out, but it is very much just friends.
‘And since that happened, we’ve basically said we can’t be doing that. We’re just going to stay being friends.’
When asked if it was a ‘friends with benefits’ situation that fizzled out, he confirmed: ‘Yeah. I genuinely feel like if I would’ve stayed with Claudia ’til the end of the show, we probably wouldn’t be friends right now.
‘It probably would’ve ended a lot worse and a lot more emotions would’ve got involved.’
He added: ‘So, as much as – in a way I wish I stayed with Claudia, I think it’s turned out for the best now, because we are such good mates.
‘If people do fake [their feelings on Love Island], I don’t know how they do it. I could never do it and actually fake emotions being in there, because in there it’s just so intense and fair play to anyone that does, but I don’t know how they could do it.’
The couple who dress together: In a second post she alludes to their apparent closeness by revealing they both wore matching Adidas trainers while out on another date
Old times: The daughter of motorcycling legend Carl Fogarty was involved in a stop-start relationship with Casey after coupling with the recruitment consultant in January
Trouble brewing: but O’Gorman soon had his head turned by bombshell Rosie Seabrook, leaving Fogarty devastated
Close: Soon after the show ended, O’Gorman and Fogarty suggested they had rekindled their romance by sharing series of flirty exchanges
