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Ekin-Su and Curtis decide they are ‘closed off’ on Love Island: All Stars

The pair fed alpacas during their first date in Tuesday’s episode.

Ekin-Su Culculoglu
Ekin-Su Culculoglu (Ian West/PA)
By Hannah Roberts, PA Entertainment Reporter

Love Island: All Stars contestants Ekin-Su Culculoglu and Curtis Pritchard have decided to “close off” their relationship.

It comes after Culculoglu, 30, and Pritchard, 28, went on their first date during Tuesday’s episode of the ITV2 spin-off show where former contestants return to the villa for a second chance at finding love.

During Wednesday’s episode, Culculoglu, who arrived in the South African villa as a bombshell, asks Pritchard whether he thinks they are “going too slow or fast”.

Pritchard says: “I don’t think we’re going too fast or too slow, I’m a one-woman man and I wanna throw myself into this with no barriers…”

Culculoglu adds: “I’m invested in basically you, I’m being vulnerable with you, I can’t give that to another man, maybe I am closed off… that’s how I feel.”

Pritchard agrees and says: “Yeah, I’d say I’m closed off, it’s nice!”

Ballroom dancer Pritchard originally appeared in series five of the dating show and was coupled up with Amy Hart before he confessed to having his “head turned” by another girl, Jourdan Raine, in the main villa while Hart was away at alternative villa Casa Amor.

Hart then left the villa and Pritchard coupled up with fellow islander Maura Higgins.

Actress Culculoglu was named the 2022 winner of Love Island with Davide Sanclimenti, who she later split from.

Curtis Pritchard was an islander on series five
Curtis Pritchard was an islander on series five (Ian West/PA)

Also in the episode, Olivia Hawkins, Grace Jackson and Catherine Agbaje chat about life outside the villa and Jackson’s relationship with ex-boyfriend, reality star Joey Essex.

Hawkins asks her: “What have you done since the show? Have you been dating anyone… no footballers? Marcus Rashford?”

Grace reveals that she has spoken to Essex since they both left Love Island series 11, where he was voted out a day before the final along with his partner Jessy Potts, who he has now split from.

Also in Wednesday’s episode, the islanders find out the public have been voting for the most compatible couple after they get a text asking them to gather around the firepit.

Love Island: All Stars continues on Wednesday night at 9pm on ITV2 and ITVX.