Love Island: Jacques O’ Neill opens up about his life inside and outside the villa

Updated on September 13, 2022 at 5:52 PM

Jacques O’Neill recently went on a podcast and shared quite a lot about his life before and after the villa. Here are the interesting bits of it.

Love Island: Jacques O’ Neill opens up about his life inside and outside the villa

The professional rugby player opened up to former Love Island star Scott Thomas on his Learning About Judgement podcast. Sharing about his life journey so far, Jacques talked about many things including his dad leaving, his time on the show and things after. Here’s what you need to know:

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His relationship with his father

Jacques confessed on the podcast that he wants nothing to do with his father, as he left him when he was young, reports The Sun. Jacques’s family had nothing when his father left and they went through a lot of struggles to be where they are today. Talking about how his mother managed everything after his father left, he said:

My mum, I don’t know how she did it.

And then added:

I don’t want anything to do with him [his dad] I never would.

Love Island bosses instigated

Amongst other things that he revealed on the podcast, he also confessed that Love Island producers were the ones who ‘set him up to cheat’ in Casa Amor, reports The Sun. He told the listeners how the producers told him that he was looking silly for ‘following Luca’ and not taking a chance with his relationship. They urged him to test his relationship with Paige and that’s where they played with his mind. He said:

So I thought if I’m looking silly I’m going to wake up and crack on. And that’s where I changed.

I literally woke up the next morning and because they were then saying in the beach hut 'do you not think you need to test your connection?' And I’m like, well, after last night if I’m looking silly then yeah I do, I do need to test my connection, let’s go.