Love Island winner Liam Reardon shares shocking pictures of swollen face after food poisoning nightmare
LOVE Island winner Liam Reardon has shared a shocking picture of his swollen face after a food poisoning nightmare left him barely able to open his eyes.
The reality star posted a photo of himself holding what appeared to be uncooked chicken, and then a photo of himself looking almost unrecognisable.
Liam’s face had completely swollen as a result of what he’d eaten, which he opened up about more on his and girlfriend Millie Court’s podcast, named Liam & Millie.
The 25-year-old had food poisoning, and explained: “I went to Thailand and I was there for two weeks and was eating all the street food and everything was fine.
“The last three days we booked into a four star hotel and I thought there would be nice food there.
“I had a chicken burger and I bit into it,” to which Millie interjected: “You’d eaten a lot of it I thought.”
Liam went on: “I had a few more bites and I thought this is really slimy, but I just assumed it was the lettuce or tomato or something like that.”
Liam explained that he then looked into the burger to find that it was completely pink inside.
He went on: “It was completely raw.”
The food poisoning incident happening during Millie and Liam’s brief break up.
The Love Island couple, who won the series back in 2021, rekindled their romance in May last year after a year-long break, and since then seem to be going from strength to strength.
In fact, the jetsetters clocked up 10 holidays in 2023.
It had been alleged that the Welshman had been unfaithful at Wireless Festival, an event he claims to have not even attended.
Speaking on their podcast last month, blonde beauty Millie began by saying, “People think that you cheated on me at Wireless Festival.”
Liam responded, “Yeah, yeah,” while Millie continued, “In a toilet. It was this rumour that went around on Twitter. Liam wasn’t even at Wireless, he was with me.”
Clarifying his whereabouts, Liam added, “I was in Wales, wasn’t I?”
Millie then explained how the situation had unfolded: “Yeah, but it’s over two weekends, so one weekend you were with me, and then the other weekend you went back to Wales, and um, obviously like you weren’t even there.
“Someone actually fully fledged made up this rumour, and it went viral, and then you were getting really badly trolled for cheating on me, supposedly.”
Liam echoed her frustration: “Yeah, yeah. So, we had to announce our breakup, which is weird. We announced our breakup on Instagram.
“The next day, some girl made a tweet. She said the reason Liam and Millie broke up was because he was caught having sex in a Portaloo toilet at Wireless Festival, and it had like so many retweets and likes.”
Millie added to the absurdity of the situation, saying, “And then as well, her mate was like, ‘Yes, um, I can prove this was true. I went into the toilet after them, after they came out, and her knickers were on the floor.’
“Do you know how wild that is? That someone would actually sit there and fully make up a lie and post that so it goes viral? Which ruins someone’s life.”