Love Island’s sweetest success stories: All the couples who are still each other’s types on paper from Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury to Olivia and Alex Bowen

Since landing on the box, Love Island has become known for its drama, break-ups, and shock dumpings.

But every now and then, it actually works.

Over the years, a handful of couples have met in the villa and gone on to build real lives together on the outside.

From weddings and babies to million-pound properties, their love stories didn’t end after the show.

These couples have proved the villa isn’t just about fame, social media followers and flings.

Here, the Daily Mail takes a look at the Love Island couples who found real love – and are still going stronger than ever today.

Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury 

Series 5, 2019

Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury met on series five of Love Island in 2019, finishing in second place.

The Maebe creator and the boxer became official just weeks after their first villa date and moved in together in Manchester a month after landing back in the UK in 2019.

The couple went from strength to strength after leaving the villa and welcomed their first child, Bambi, in January 2023 before getting engaged that July.

However, Molly-Mae left fans in utter shock in the summer of 2024 when she announced that she and Tommy had separated after five years together.

In a statement posted to her Instagram followers, Molly confirmed the breakup, saying: ‘I never imagined our story would end, especially not this way.’

Tommy denied continued speculation about him cheating during a magazine interview, insisting any reports about him being with other women were ‘complete and utter b*****ks.’

Later in her Behind It All documentary, Molly-Mae discussed how Tommy’s drinking had been a huge factor in their split.

The pair very publicly navigated co-parenting their daughter Bambi for months, with Tommy often seen outside Molly-Mae’s home. 

But the internet was again sent into meltdown in December when a video seemingly showing Tommy and Molly-Mae kissing on New Year’s Eve went viral – a clip which she later spoke about in her Amazon Prime documentary. 

Months of rumours swirled that the pair had rekindled their romance, with them spotted jetting off on holiday together.

Molly-Mae finally confirmed they had got back together as she began to reintroduce Tommy’s presence back onto her Instagram feed, sharing a sweet family snap.

The pair eventually moved back in together at their Cheshire mansion, which they purchased in 2024 and had been renovating.

Last month, Molly revealed she is emotional as she is unsure what to do with her other £4million mansion.

The Maebe founder said the ‘house is everything to me’ and in a dream world she would keep the house for her mum and she would move into the new property.

She said: ‘What am I going to do with this house, I don’t want to rent it out but I don’t want to sell it.

‘This house is everything to me, I just need to figure it out and in a dream world my mum would move up from down south and live here but she can’t move here because her husband works down south in a good job and he’s not ready to give that up.

‘I’m just feeling a little bit emotional because it is an end of an era’.

Olivia and Alex Bowen 

Series 2, 2016

Olivia Buckland and Alex Bowen met on series two of Love Island in 2016, with the couple ultimately finishing in second place.

The couple moved in together within weeks and Alex proposed during a romantic trip to New York in December after just five months of dating.

In September 2018, Olivia and Alex, formerly a sales executive and scaffolder respectively, tied the knot in the first-ever Love Island wedding in front of friends, family and reality TV co-stars at Gosfield Hall, in Essex.

They both took to Instagram to share loved-up throwback snaps from their big day in 2018.

The couple are still just as loved-up as ever, documenting their married life from their lavish £1million Essex home where they live with their two French Bulldogs Winnie and Reggie. 

The ITV2 favourites have continued to capitalise on their popularity, and have become one of the show’s biggest financial success story, amassing an estimated combined £4.3million fortune since leaving the villa.

Olivia shared the happy news she was pregnant with her first child with Alex on New Year’s Day 2022.

The couple welcomed their their son Abel in June 2022 and share family snaps to their social media pages often.

Sadly, it has not been smooth sailing for the family as Olivia was expecting twins, but lost one of her babies eight weeks into her pregnancy.

She made the revelation on Loose Women, where she recounted their tragic experience of vanishing twin syndrome.

The couple were told they were having twins just before Christmas, when they attended an early six week scan.

Olivia told the panel: ‘We went super early, I’m quite an anxious person anyway. When we turned up, we had our friend in the back of the car because we thought everything would be normal.

‘As soon as we sat down I saw two babies and not one, I was floored by that. I have twins in my family and as soon as we found out I was already nervous as we’ve not had a great history of twins in our family.’

However, in February last year the pair announced they were expecting again. 

They went on to welcome their second baby, daughter Siena Grace, in August 2025.

Will Young and Jessie Wynter

Series 9, 2023

Will Young and Jessie Wynter stole the UK’s hearts on winter Love Island in 2023 as she arrived as a bombshell.

Jessie was an islander on season two of Love Island Australia, and more recently featured on the UK version of the show that wrapped up filming a couple months ago in South Africa.

It was there that she ‘coupled up’ with Will, and after falling in love she lived with him in Buckinghamshire on his family’s farm.

The pair regularly travel the world together and go back and forth between his UK farm and her native Australia.

Earlier this month, the pair revealed that they had gotten engaged in December. 

The pair, who met on the iconic reality series in 2023, secretly got engaged on December 9, 2025.

Posting on Instagram, Will wrote: ‘The love of my life said yes. 09.12.25,’ next to a series of sweet photos.

The snaps show Will on one knee as he pops the all-important question, while other images capture the celebrations. 

One photo features a close-up of Jessie’s huge sparkler, and another is an adorable selfie of the newly engaged pair.

In the caption, Will continued: ‘On the 9th of December I asked Jessie to marry me.

‘Since then, we’ve been celebrating with each other and Jessie’s family, just us, with no outside noise, exactly how we wanted it.

‘We wanted to soak up this moment together and be fully present before sharing it with the world.

‘We still feel like we’re living in a dream. I can’t believe we’re engaged. My heart has never felt so full of love.’

He continued to explain how he had been planning this moment ‘and keeping the biggest secret from Jessie’.

He admitted ‘it wasn’t easy’ but affirmed that ‘every second was worth it’.

Will continued: ‘Jessie deserves the world and I can’t wait to spend my life giving it to her.

‘Since we met on Love Island three years ago I’ve been the happiest boy in the world.

‘From the very beginning I knew I wanted Jessie to be my fiancée, I just knew it had to be perfect.

‘I searched everywhere for the right place. I know how much she loves the ocean and the mountains and there’s nowhere she loves more than home.

‘Every time we come to Tasmania Jessie takes me to her favourite views and just sits and admires how beautiful Tasmania is, so when I found this spot, I knew it was the one.

‘We are so incredibly happy,’ he added.

Concluding the caption, Will wrote: ‘I love you with all my heart, Jessie and I promise to love you for the rest of my life.

‘Here’s to making you the happiest girl in the world, forever. And thank you for making me the happiest man alive.’

Jessie commented on the post, writing: ‘The most perfect day. I love you so much.’

Molly Smith and Tom Clare

All Stars series, 2024

Season one of All Stars was won by returning Islanders Molly Smith and Tom Clare with Callum Jones and Eve Gale coming in second place.

Molly was a bombshell arrival, to the shock of her ex-boyfriend Callum, who she met filming the winter addition of the show in 2020.

Viewers became invested with the possibility of Molly and Callum rekindling their three-year relationship, but the fitness model pursued her romantic connection with Tom instead.

Callum and Eve split weeks after the show finished amid reporters he cheated with another woman, which Callum insists is untrue because the couple had already separated.

Since winning All Stars, Molly has secured several lucrative deals including with clothing retailer boohoo, US fitness supplement Alani Nu, jewellery brand Abbott Lyon and global makeup giants L’Oréal Paris and Maybelline.

In September, the pair announced their engagement. 

They captioned their holiday snaps from Dubai: ‘SHE SAID YES!!!’ as Tom sweetly lifted her into the air.

Molly looked gorgeous in a white silk dress as she showed off the sparkling ring while surrounded by candles and white flowers. 

Cach Mercer and Toni Laites

Series 12, 2025

Toni Laites and Cach Mercer won over the hearts of the nation after they found their way back to each other following a messy split in the villa.

She had her head turned by Harrison Solomon, but he then dumped her for Casa Amor’s Lauren Wood before quitting the show.

Toni then got back together with Cach before going on to win the series and scooping a prize fund of £50k. 

Ahead of winning the show, the pair had revealed that they had both declared their love for one another.

Shortly after winning the series,Toni confirmed she would be staying in the UK, explaining: ‘I don’t think I’ll be spending much time in America anymore.’

She added: ‘No decisions are made yet. But obviously Cach is here. I have a lot of opportunities coming up. My friends are here. So I see no reason to be in America anymore.’

Toni has since managed to find an apartment and their pair look closer than ever.

Most recently, the pair headed to Antigua and Barbuda to ring in 2026.

Kai Fagan and Sanam Harrinanan

Series 9, 2023

Kai Fagan and Sanam Harrinanan snatched the win during the Winter Love Island 2023 series.

The pair became exclusive during their time on the ITV show, despite not initially being coupled up with each other as she came into the villa during Casa Amor. 

The couple have been keeping their fans up-to-date on social media as they travel back and fourth visiting one another in Manchester and Bedfordshire. 

In April 2024, Kai and Sanam announced they were engaged after the teacher got down on one knee while the pair were boating in Cambridge, with social worker Sanam dressed in bridal white and Kai wearing a matching coloured jacket.

They passionately kissed one another in another lovely photo before celebrating by popping champagne.

In August, the pair officially tied the knot in a picture-perfect £39K wedding.

Kai and Sanam said ‘I do’ during a romantic countryside ceremony at the lavish High House in Essex, where weddings can cost from £10,995 up to £38,995.

They captioned a joint Instagram post: ‘Mr and Mrs Fagan forever and always 01/08/2025.’

Alongside the video of their wedding, they added: ‘Sharing a snippet of our most magical day’.

Camilla Thurlow and Jamie Jewitt

Series 3, 2017 

Series three saw Camilla Thurlow and Jamie Jewitt narrowly miss out on the crown, finishing in second place.

Camilla was initially unlucky-in-love during her stint on the ITV2 dating show, after her budding romance with Jonny Mitchell came to end as he began pursuing Tyla Carr. 

However things turned around when she met Calvin Klein model, Jamie.

In February 2019, the couple moved into their own home after living at his parents’ house following their exit from the ITV2 dating show. 

The following year, the pair announced they were expecting their first child together, and in October 2020 they welcomed a baby girl called Nell.

In February 2021, Jamie proposed to Camilla with their baby daughter wearing a personalised baby grow which read: ‘Mummy, will you marry my Daddy?’

The pair went on to marry in a romantic ceremony last year and announced they were expecting their second child together in December.

In May 2022, the pair announced the arrival of their second child, a daughter called Nora Belle Jewitt.

The couple shared a heart-warming video featuring images of their new addition, who was born ahead of her June due date.

Captioning the post, they penned: ‘Our beautiful early bird Nora Belle Jewitt. Born 27 May 2022, a sister for our gorgeous little Nell Sophia.’

The couple announced the birth of their third child, son Brodie, in May 2025.

Revealing their son’s sweet name, Camilla wrote on her Instagram page: ‘And just like that.. we are a family of 5. Meet baby Brodie 12.38pm 8th May 6lb15oz’.

Nathan Massey and Cara De La Hoyde

Series 2, 2016

It wasn’t just Olivia and Alex who found love on season two. 

Not only are series winners Nathan Massey and Cara De La Hoyde still together, they are married with two children.

However, their road to happiness wasn’t plain-sailing as they split less than a year after the show, when Cara was pregnant with Nathan’s son.

But they reconciled at Christmas 2017, a few weeks before Cara welcomed their baby, who they named Freddie-George.

The couple later revisited the Love Island villa and Nathan shocked Cara by asking her to marry him. 

They got married in a low-key ceremony in the summer of 2019. They welcomed a daughter, Delilah, in 2020.

They have also appeared on TOWIE, as have many other Love Islanders following their stint in the villa. 

Cara told the Daily Mail previously: ‘I’ll be honest I don’t really watch Love Island anymore because the people on there, they’re just so pretty and everything and it just stresses me out watching these girls walk around and I think ‘I don’t look like that anymore.’

‘I think it’s a really difficult thing to go into now and I’ll be honest I don’t think I would want to go into Love Island now. It’s too big of an industry now for me. It would stress me out too much.

‘With Nathan and I and the earlier series it was all about love – we had no expectations of what Love Island was. 

‘I went in there because I didn’t want to pay rent for six weeks! I thought I’ll go in there, I’m a little bit of a weirdo and nobody is going to fancy me and I fell in love and met my husband!’

Shakira Khan shares Harry Cooksley

Series 12, 2025

Harry Cooksley and Shakira Khan met on the latest series of Love Island. 

At the start of the series, Shakira found herself up against Helena Ford, who claimed she had an ‘undeniable connection’ with Harry. 

The footballer spent time with both girls and then decided to focus on his relationship with Helena, despite claiming he was all for Shakira.

Shakira then found a connection with Ty Isherwood in Casa Amor and chose to bring him back to the main villa.

However, the beauty realised she had a better connection with Conor Phillips and ended things with Ty.

Around this time, Harry decided to go ‘exclusive’ with Helena, but when Shakira admitted her feelings for him hadn’t completely disappeared, the footballer confessed he felt the same.

Fast forward to the present day, they are officially girlfriend and boyfriend, and still going strong.

Jess and Dom Lever

Series 3, 2017 

Jess and Dom Lever met on series 3 of Love Island in 2017, but only got together outside the villa. 

They both left separately and early on in the series.  

The pair announced their engagement after three months of dating and married in a romantic ceremony on the Greek Island of Mykonos in October 2018.

They revealed that they were expecting their first child in May 2019, seven months after tying the knot, and welcomed their baby boy Presley, in September that year.

In March 2022, Jess and Dom announced they’re expecting a second child by sharing a video showing Jess’ pregnancy test and a baby scan, plus son Presley kissing her tummy, alongside the caption: ‘Our family is growing.’

Jess gave birth to their second son in June 2022 and has since been sharing pictures of their young family.

The couple live in Devon, where Jess originates from, and are currently renovating their dream home.

Luke Mabbott and Lucie Donlan 

Series 6, 2020 and series 5, 2019

Luke Mabbott and Lucie Donlan both starred on Love Island but in different series, as the former heating engineer found fame on the first winter edition of the show in 2020. 

Meanwhile, surfer and glamour model Lucie appeared on the 2019 series of Love Island, and briefly dated fellow contestant Joseph Garratt.

Luke reached the final of the winter series of the ITV dating show, but split from Demi Jones shortly afterwards.

The happy pair met in July 2020 after Lucie revealed that she messaged Luke first on social media. 

The pair got engaged a year later in December 2023 after Luke romantically proposed in front of the Northern Lights during their trip to Finland.

He wrote: ‘Mrs Mabbott to be. The northern lights made an appearance for the perfect moment to pop the question. A night we will never forget.’ 

In April, Lucie revealed that she and Luke had finally booked their wedding venue and said the nuptials will take place next year. 

During the summer of 2024, Lucie put her Cornish cottage on the market less than three years after saying it was her ‘dream’ home.

Lucie renovated the quaint seaside house in Cubert, near Newquay alongside her fiance Luke.

In August 2025, they purchased another property to renovate, which they are currently living in the meantime.  

Sophie Piper and Joshua Ritchie 

All Stars series, 2024 

Sophie and Josh finished Love Island All Stars 2024 in third place after being coupled up since the day after Sophie entered the Villa.

In March 2024, Josh revealed on his Instagram story that he asked Sophie to be his girlfriend but she turned him down, saying: ‘I don’t think we’re at that stage yet.’

In the video he shared, Josh showed a hotel bed surrounded with rose petals and that had rose petals on the bed itself spelling out ‘will you be my gf?’

Josh turned the camera to Sophie and said: ‘Look what we have here, then. Thankfully, she said ‘no’.’ Sophie explained: ‘Erm, I just don’t think we’re at that stage yet. I think there’s a lot of stuff still that we’re working out.’

Josh burst into laughter while Sophie was speaking, letting his followers know that Sophie wasn’t being serious.

Rochelle Humes’ sister confirmed this by taking to her own Story to share a photo of the bed and write: ‘His (sic) the cutest haha’.

And the couple are still going strong, with Josh posting a sweet snap of them together with the caption: ‘Drunk in love.’

Grace Jackson and Luca Bish

All Stars series, 2025

Grace and Luca found love on the latest series of All Stars last year and came runners-up to winner Gabby Allen and Casey O’Gorman – who have since split.

The couple have proved their connection is strong after ex-island Olivia Hawkins claimed the model was only looking for a ‘showmance’.

But Luca received some backlash in March for his over the top method of asking Grace to be his girlfriend – which bore a striking similarity to the way he asked his ex-girlfriend Gemma Owen to be ‘official’.

As Luca took things to the next level with the blonde bombshell, eagle-eyed fans have spotted several similarities between his latest OTT gesture to the one he did for ex Gemma after meeting on the ITV2 show the first time around.

Luca and Grace enjoyed a lavish getaway to Abu Dhabi over the weekend and during the trip he hired someone to set up a stunning floral beach private dinner, which looked near enough identical to the red roses date he prepared for Gemma. 

In February, the couple shared what life has been like since leaving the villa.

Speaking on the Wednesdays podcast with Melissa Tattam and Sophie Habboo, Luca shared: ‘We had dinner the day we landed with my mum and sister, and then we had dinner with her two best mates last night.

‘The important thing for us is just introducing everyone, and yeah, integrating everything.’

Megan Forte Clarke and Conor Phillips

Series 12, 2025

Megan Forte Clarke and Conor Phillips met on the latest season of the reality show.

Despite Megan being booted from the show, she made a shocking return where her and Conor rekindled their romance.

They were both dumped from the villa after reconnecting, but their romance has been going from strength to strength.

Last month, they took a huge step in their relationship and moved in together.

Conor shared a snap of the pair in the Love Island villa with the caption: ‘who would have thought… we’d be living together!’

Ty Isherwood and Angel Swift 

Series 12, 2025 

Ty and Angel were the last couple to get together in the latest series.

The two ended up making it to the final and finished in fourth place.  

While many didn’t believe they would go the distance, the pair have proved they’re stronger than ever. 

Shortly after leaving the villa, during a hotel stay, Ty asked Angel to be his girlfriend.  

There was also an inflatable banner along the bed that read ‘will you be my girlfriend’.

He bought Angel a big bouquet of red roses and she looked smitten as she posed with them on the bed.

Just days after becoming official, she surprised him with a trip to Venice for his birthday.

He revealed a white card on which he had scratched out a gold panel revealing the destination of his celebratory trip.

In her neat handwriting, Angel had penned: ‘I love you.’

Not only that, but in October they shared the exciting news they had moved in together too.