Why did Montel and Leah from Love Island split up?

MONTEL McKenzie and Leah Taylor got unneurotic connected Love Island successful 2023, but contempt leaving the villa together, adjacent aft that Casa Amor kiss, they didn't marque it connected the outside.

At slightest one of them is returning arsenic an All Star bombshell successful 2025. Here we instrumentality a look astatine wherefore Leah and Montel broke up.

What happened betwixt Leah and Montel connected Love Island?

Leah Taylor and semi-pro footballer Montel McKenzie's Love Island travel began erstwhile the second entered the villa connected Day 16 of the summertime 2023 season.

Their transportation rapidly grew, starring them to mates up.

However, their budding narration faced a monolithic setback during Casa Amor erstwhile Montel kissed bombshell Tink Reading, with his infidelity exposed on Movie Night.

Leah forgave Montel aft helium made a heartfelt nationalist show of affection to triumph her back.

He could beryllium seen organising his fellow Islanders into a huddle connected the tract portion pal Sammy Root got Leah unsocial by the occurrence pit.

Montel past stood connected the celebrated terrace and professed his emotion for Leah.

He kicked the apologetic monologue disconnected by admitting helium had "embarrassed" her — truthful helium would present embarrass himself.

The motion impressed Leah, who accepted Montel's apology and sealed it with a kiss.

But their clip connected Love Island came to an extremity connected time 38 erstwhile they were dumped from the show, conscionable days earlier the expansive finale.

The break-up

Leah confirmed they had "decided to conscionable beryllium friends" 2 weeks aft leaving the villa together, breaking up earlier the Love Island last successful July 2023.

The superior catalyst for their breakup appears to beryllium related to cheating — some existent and rumoured.

During a publicity event, Montel was snapped posing with immoderate girls.

Leah reportedly took contented with with the pics, starring to accusations of him being unfaithful.

In August 2023, helium posted connected TikTok: "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. I would ne'er bash that."

Leah's broadside of the story

Leah addressed the reasons for the breakup herself, telling the Love Island Reunion show: "There's a crushed down wherefore it happened, what happened astatine Casa Amor.

"There was rather an contented of trust. I deliberation it was conscionable a bully happening for america [to split]."

Leah besides opened up astir the reasons down their break-up to OK! Magazine: "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."