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:

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.

I went into the beach hut and I was like, ‘I don’t want to kiss (Cheyanne), I don’t.'

And they were like, 'Jacques…' and then I thought, oh right yeah I look silly.

Death Threats

Jacques also confessed how it was hard for him and his mother to deal with the death threats after his exit from the show. He told the listeners:

Just seeing my mum, how she was. Seeing her in a state. I couldn't even leave the house...

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