Paige Turley ready to give up Love Island crown admitting she's 'milked it enough'

13.01.2023 - 15:29 / dailyrecord.co.uk

Love Island’s only Scots winner Paige Turley is ready to give up her crown, joking: “We’ve kind of milked it enough.” The West Lothian star won the first winter spin-off in 2020 with Finley Tapp.

The couple are still together and, because of Covid restrictions, there hasn’t been another winter version since they took the £50,000 prize. Speaking via Zoom from their Manchester home, Paige, 25, laughed and said: “We are quite willing to hand over the crowns now. We’ve kind of milked it enough. I can’t believe it’s been three years. It feels like it’s gone by in flash but is also a lifetime ago.”

Back in 2020, Laura Whitmore took over hosting duties for the first time and now Maya Jama will present the second winter Love Island. Paige remembers how she felt before she flew in for Love Island. Three years ago, she was working at Forty Clothing in Glasgow while dreaming of being a singer.

She said: “I didn’t realise how naive you were going into the villa and how much it was going to change our lives.” Finn added: “You really don’t know what to expect or what you are preparing for. It was nerve-wracking. I thought Laura did a brilliant job when we were on the show and I think Maya is going to do just as good a job.”

Although the majority of Love Island couples haven’t lasted, Paige and Finn are still going strong. She said: “Lockdown gave us the stability of home life and helped build the foundations of our relationship. Your relationship is accelerated in the villa and then we come out you’re in this whirlwind of a world.

“You don’t really know each other when you leave the villa. You don’t know their friends or family. When I took Finn to Fauldhouse, my home town, he was ‘wow’.”

The pair moved in together to a flat in Manchester