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Charlotte Tutton

Love Island's Lucinda Strafford matched with fellow Islander on dating app before show

Love Island 2021's Lucinda Strafford missed out on a reunion of sorts with a guy she'd already been talking to outside of the villa.

On entering the famous villa last week, she and fellow newcomer Millie Court were quick to notice one of the boys were no longer on the show.

The duo entered while all the original girls were out of the way, enjoying brunch away from the boys.

As Millie and Lucinda joined the fun, Millie noted that Chuggs Wallis wasn't there and must have been dumped while they were in hiding.

It's then that her co-star dropped the bombshell that she already knew of him.

Love Island 2021 star Lucinda Strafford confessed she'd matched with another Islander on a dating app (ITV)

Lucinda confessed that way before she entered the villa, she actually matched with Chuggs on a dating app.

She knew it was him because, asides the name and his appearance being the same, she remembered he sold bucket hats.

Chuggs confirmed in the villa that he owned a customised hat business in the real world, and his thing is bucket hats.

Lucinda recalled having an entire conversation with Chuggs in the real world on the dating app (ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

Lucinda recalled having an entire conversation with Chuggs in the real world, on the dating app, about his hats too.

Clearly it did not work out, with both contestants headed for the Spanish villa in the same year.

There wasn't a reunion though for the pair, as Lucinda arrived after Chuggs had already left and gone home.

She wasn't the only Islander of this series that already knew Chuggs though, with two others knowing who he was.

As soon as his arrival was announced, Hugo Hammond confirmed he knew Chuggs through sport with a mutual friend of the pair confirming the link online.

Chloe Burrows also appeared to confirm she knew Chuggs, while this wasn't really acknowledged on the show.

There was also speculation that Brad McClelland knew Chuggs because he seemed to know he played rugby, but this might have been based on Hugo's own comments, and his arrival text message.

Love Island airs every night at 9pm on ITV2 and ITV Hub.

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