DUMPED Love Island contestant Sam Taylor has launched a blistering attack on Joey Essex after he was axed just after 24 hours in the villa.
Sam was booted out of the ITV2 show when bombshell Joey stole his romantic partner, Samantha Kenny during the first recoupling.
The Chesterfield-born hair stylist, 23, only lasted one day on the show before he was sent packing.
Sam has now slammed the ex-Towie star for showing no loyalty to the boys.
He took a swipe at Joey for his insensitive handling of Ciaran’s love triangle with Nicole and Harriett, when he brutally asked the Welsh lad, 23, who he liked the most in front of Harriett.
Sam exclusively told The Sun: “I’ll be honest watching that the other night with Joey throwing Ciaran underneath the bus.
“It kind of it upset me a little bit, because Ciaran is still quite young.
“He wound’t have said anything to Joey and I think for being in there it is okay to be confused and not understand how you feel about someone, that’s the whole point of the (show).
“And it’s also about doing it in the best way and the way Joey did it, I was like, first or all, you’ve upset a young girl, you’ve properly upset her by doing that.
“You should have waited for Ciaran to understand how he was feeling and say it in a proper way, I don’t know.
“I watched that and was like, you’ve just chucked him right underneath the bus and you’ve upset someone a lot doing that.”
Ciaran continued: “Yeah it’s a TV programme and you don’t know what’s going on but he has a rough idea of what he is doing.
“That was a tough one to watch.
“To see how upset everyone was because of that and obviously that all kicked off because of Joey putting Ciaran under the spot and because of Ciaran being Ciaran he probably felt a bit nervous to say something to Joey.”
It’s Joey Essex, he’s been on TV his whole life, he knows how to cause a scene or problem.
Dumped Islander Sam Taylor
Sam explained that he is unsure if Joey is being his authentic self on the show because of his extensive reality TV show past – which includes I’m A Celeb, Dancing On Ice and Celebs Go Dating among others.
“But for me I don’t really care I probably would have definitely stuck up for Ciaran there a lot to be honest,” he told us.
“When the lads talk about the girls, you’ve got to listen.
“Yes he was chanting Nicole’s name but end of the day he had two feelings for two different people and he was trying to understand that a bit more, and I think if that didn’t go the way it had gone he might have felt more for Harriett.
The evicted Islander said the Essex star, who has been accused of being a producer plant by fans, also knows how to manipulate situations to cause explosive telly drama.
Sam added: “”We’ve never done anything like this before, but with Joey that is so normal so you don’t know if he is being himself, for us it’s so unnatural, for him, it’s his job at the end of the day.
“It’s Joey Essex, he’s been on TV his whole life, he knows how to cause a scene or problem.”
Although Sam had a swift exit, some viewers are hoping that he’ll make a return as a Casa Amor bombshell.
And viewers were convinced that he dropped a huge hint that he would be coming back on the show.
As he said goodbye to his co-stars he told them he would “see them soon”.
“Sam’s coming back in Casa Amor,” one speculated on X.
“Calm down. Sam’s only moving to Casa Amor,” echoed a second.
Another wrote: “Guys let’s be so fr we’ll be seeing Sam in 2 weeks for Casa or some other twist.”
If Sam does join the Casa Amor villa, he will follow in the footsteps of Mollly Marsh from last year’s show who was dumped on the spot but returned to Casa Amor two weeks later.
