Love Island winner Dani Dyer has shrugged off claims that her romance with co-star Jack Fincham is ‘fake,’ and has insisted that the couple aren’t trying to build a ‘brand’ like the Beckhams.
The 22-year-old addressed speculation that her relationship with Fincham, 27, is a ‘showmance’ in a new interview with Cosmopolitan.
“I’ve had messages calling me fake, or saying I only got to where I am because of my dad, or articles saying [Jack and I are] going to split up,” she told the magazine. “It hurts because it’s not true.”
She went on to explain that while conducting a relationship in the public eye is far from “normal,” she and Fincham aren’t staying together for “money.”
“I’m 22 and this isn’t a normal situation that I’m dealing with,” she said. “I don’t know what money they think we’ve got together but we’re not David and Victoria. We’re not a brand.
“I’m my own woman, my own person.”
The reality star also revealed that it was difficult to see headlines about her parents, actor Danny Dyer and Joanne Mas, when she was growing up, but the couple have taught her to “never give up” on a relationship.
“Mum and Dad taught me never to give up when it comes to your relationship. No relationship is easy and they’ve been through it all,” she said.
“You always know when your parents are arguing, but when things about them splitting up would be in the papers, that was s*** because I was young.”
Dyer and Fincham met on Love Island last summer and went on to win the ITV2 dating show.
Though the couple announced that they’d broken up back in December, they quickly patched things up and Dyer confirmed that they were still together in an Instagram post soon after.
“Just want to put all comments to bed,” she wrote. “All I can say is I’m still 22 trying to get my s*** together and grow into a woman but doing it in the public eye is sometimes hard and scary but arguments are arguments and I love [Fincham.]”
The pair are now the only couple from Love Island 2018 still together, after Wes Nelson and Megan Barton Hanson, Josh Denzel and Kaz Crossley and Adam Collard and Zara McDermott split up in quick succession this year.
