Love Island winner in talks for All Stars after heartbreaking split, bitter fight with ex and TV bullying row
LOVE Island’s Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu is in talks to go on All Stars – two and a half years after winning the show.
The 30-year-old won £50,000 with then-boyfriend Davide Sanclimenti before their heartbreaking split.
Molly Smith and Tom Clare became the first Love Island: All Star champions in South Africa earlier this year.
Now Ekin-Su is reportedly planning to find love again on TV with other former Love Islanders when the celebrity series returns in January.
A TV source told MailOnline: “Ekin-Su has been the number one priority for casting producers, they know fans would love to see her return to the villa.
“The deal is agreed in principle, there’s still some details to sort out.
“Ekin’s in her 30s now too, she really wants to meet someone genuine who she can settle down with and after seeing it happen for last year’s All Stars winners, she’s keeping her fingers crossed she can be next.”
Maya Jama is returning to host the latest series – with ex-Islanders including Gemma Owen and Sammy Root tipped to return,
Ekin-Su previously told how Davide’s “endless deceit” led to the end of their 18-month relationship.
The Italian heart-throb was accused of cheating with model Harriet Wilson in March 2023.
However, Davide — who is still friends with Harriet and her partner — denies the allegations.
He said: “I genuinely was in love with Ekin, but she broke my heart and I had no choice but to leave the relationship for my own sanity.”
Davide says he dumped Ekin-Su in June 2023 over claims she had cheated on him — months after accusations he had spent the night.
But they reunited less than a month later and were spotted leaving the ITV summer party together.
The on-off couple finally called it quits for good in January this year, a month before Ekin-Su’s disastrous stint on Celebrity Big Brother.
During the reality series, her housemates and fans accused her of being fake, playing a role and were also disappointed when she hit out at Only Fans models.
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After the second All Stars series was announced in May, show boss Mike Spender said: “Lots of people have been in contact about it, lots of fun people, from series one onwards.
“We cast it because we knew what was going on behind the scenes of who was getting with who and now even more stories have come out.
“I think we will now save ex-islanders for All Stars.”
One rumoured name for the next series is data engineer Harry Baker.
Harry, 25, arrived in the villa as a bombshell in Series 11. He soon ‘stole’ Grace Jackson after making his debut.
Arriving late in the run, he only lasted for a few days before being dumped alongside Lola Deloca.
Despite the hunk’s brief stint, viewers have called for Harry’s return.
One upset fan wrote: “Get you in All Stars next”, to which Harry cryptically replied by posting ‘shrugging’ emojis.
She left the famous house to a chorus of boos and experienced death threats.
She blames the backlash about her behaviour on being “angry, hurt and insecure” in the wake of her bitter split with Davide.
Speaking exclusively, she told The Sun: “I wasn’t my best self, and I’m not proud of CBB. It was a wrong choice for me, but I can’t blame anybody but myself. I carried a lot of baggage into that show, and I projected a lot of what I was feeling outside of the house inside too.
“I was fake in the house because I wasn’t being myself, I was in survival mode.”
Talking about how their rows turned nasty, Ekin-Su, 29, previously admitted: “I never betrayed Davide, but I was hurt and I did get angry.
“There were a few times he would start a row and I’d react. I’d scream and get in his face.”