Love Island runners-up Ciaran and Nicole reveal key to staying together after show

Ciaran Davies and Nicole Samuel were runners-up successful this year's Love Island, but contempt not winning, the brace are precise overmuch loved up - and stock the concealed to their palmy narration aft the show

Love Island runners-up Ciaran Davies and Nicole Samuel stunned connected the reddish carpet past nighttime - and the brace look much loved up than ever.

Ciaran and Nicole are conscionable 1 of 2 couples inactive unneurotic since leaving the villa successful the summer, and they shared their secrets astir what it takes for a narration to enactment aft gathering connected the ITV2 world show. The pair, some from Wales, coupled up rapidly and remained unneurotic passim the full process, adjacent saying they loved each other.

However they mislaid retired connected the apical spot to Mimii Ngulube and Josh Oyinsan. Despite coming successful 2nd place, they are inactive firmly loved up months aboriginal - and person adjacent moved together, sharing the secrets to their palmy and beardown relationship.

So, erstwhile it comes to what couples request to bash successful bid to enactment unneurotic aft the show, the brace agreed: "It's each astir communication". The lone different mates inactive unneurotic since the amusement wrapped connected July 29 is Jess and Ayo.

Ciaran and Nicole said since leaving the villa they person been stronger than ever, with them adjacent moving successful unneurotic already. Nicole said since leaving it has been "amazing", adding: "I americium conscionable truthful grateful for each opportunity." While Ciaran called it a "whirlwind".

But to marque it work, they said it's each astir bully communication. Nicole said: "Communication is decidedly our biggest thing. It's our fig 1 harmless ground." Adapting to beingness extracurricular of the villa, Nicole and Ciaran person moved successful together, staying successful Wales adjacent to home. They said it's conscionable similar "being successful the villa" and said they were "always together", truthful thing has changed.

"The absorption since leaving has been amazing, we've been shown truthful overmuch love. Some Love Island contestants don't get a bully absorption and tin get hate, but for america it's been the opposite," Ciaran explained. Nicole past joked she ne'er thought "in a cardinal years" she would go a meme aft a clip of her went viral asking, "Who's Emma?" erstwhile it came to a miss Ciaran was speaking to portion successful the villa.

"I ne'er wanted to perceive to my dependable connected the show, but the archetypal happening erstwhile I went connected TikTok and determination was a clip of maine saying 'Who's Emma?' and I conscionable thought, ohio my god, what is this? It's everywhere. But it's truthful comic and everyone recovered it hilarious. I ne'er thought me, a small miss from the Valley, would go truthful iconic."

The brace are ever successful interaction with their chap castmates and said they ever conscionable up and excitedly hinted they person a fewer things successful the pipeline coming up too.

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