Who is Love Island's Montel McKenzie amid villa return rumours

Montel McKenzie is the latest bombshell rumoured to beryllium entering the Love Island villa truthful here's a look astatine the East Londoner's beingness disconnected the pitch, including his divided with castmate

Love Island could soon person a caller look successful the villa, acceptable to crook heads.

Montel McKenzie, the rumoured latest bombshell to shingle things up, is reportedly acceptable to marque his mark. The 27-year-old from East London is allegedly coming to find his imagination woman, and he’s got his sights acceptable connected immoderate of the ladies, particularly Catherine Agbaje.

With assurance and charm successful spades, Montel isn’t acrophobic to measurement connected a fewer toes to prosecute what helium wants.

Montel is simply a 27-year-old East Londoner who balances a engaged beingness betwixt enactment and sports. When he’s not moving arsenic an relationship manager, he’s connected the transportation playing arsenic a defender for Hemel Hempstead Town. His Instagram feed, @montelmckenzie, is filled with shot snaps, showing conscionable however overmuch helium loves the game.

Despite his packed schedule, Montel hasn’t recovered the close idiosyncratic to settee down with, admitting, “I conscionable haven’t recovered idiosyncratic I privation to date. I’m ever truthful engaged with enactment and football!”

Known for being chill and calm, Montel is nary alien to attraction but confessed he’s not utilized to doing the chasing. “I’m utilized to radical coming up to maine — I’m lucky, I guess!” helium said. However, during his clip successful the 2023 bid of the amusement Montel was acceptable to shingle things up and wasn't disquieted astir stepping connected toes to prosecute Ella Thomas, adjacent though she was coupled up with Tyrique Hyde.

“I’ll decidedly talk to Ella contempt her being coupled up,” Montel said confidently astatine the time.

Before entering the villa successful 2023, Montel shared a portion of proposal helium received from his household and friends: support it classy. He joked, “I’m decidedly not going to person enactment connected TV, well, I said I would effort my best!”

He besides has delved into the existent crushed wherefore helium and Leah Taylor divided aft leaving the villa successful 2023. The brace had their ups and downs portion connected the deed dating amusement but it seemed similar they were going strong, but this conscionable lasted 2 weeks aft heading home.

The erstwhile mates went done speculation regarding their narration status erstwhile they revealed during the last that they were nary longer an item. While connected the programme, they faced difficulties erstwhile they returned from Casa Amor and it came retired that Montel had kissed idiosyncratic else.

After facing cheating rumours aft the show, Leah responded to a TikTok remark astir their split. She wrote: "Yes I forgave erstwhile successful the villa and was acceptable to determination connected from it but I don’t forgive twice."

Montel has since besides taken to the societal media level to archer his broadside of the story. In a beryllium down video, helium said: "I've seen my sanction circulating successful the media a bit, a spot of atrocious press, a spot of rumours being spread. I thought I'd travel present and code everything. First of all, they are conscionable rumours."

He past went connected to contradict immoderate cheating rumours, saying: "I would ne'er bash that." He explained the circumstantial crushed that the brace called clip connected their romance, which helium said was erstwhile Montel and immoderate of his chap Islanders attended an lawsuit but Leah was successful Manchester astatine the time.

Montel described 1 photograph successful peculiar arsenic sparking the split, with Leah not "happy with the position" helium was in. The photograph shows Montel alongside Islanders Andre, Elom, Kodie, Gabby, and Tink who was positioned successful beforehand of Montel.

Previously speaking to OK! Leah antecedently shared her reasons for the split. She revealed: "We were coupled up portion connected the amusement and it was rather a caller mates arsenic well, truthful it's not similar we had arsenic overmuch clip arsenic the different radical successful there.

"So we had ever said the adjacent measurement for america was seeing however things enactment successful the existent world. And coming retired we went connected 1 day but it's conscionable 1 of those, it hasn't worked out."