Love Island’s Joey Essex and Jessy Potts are DUMPED a day before the final as former co-stars return to settle scores in savage twist

Love Island stars Joey Essex and Jessy Potts have been dumped from the show.

The couple were sent packing just one day before the series final as their former co-stars from the seas on returned to settle scores on Sunday.

While they were tasked with picking who they believed to be the least compatible couple, Joey accused them of picking on him for personal reasons.

Ayo Odukoya and Jess Spencer also received several votes from the ex Islanders however it was ultimately Joey and Jessy who had to leave.

Joey and Jessy received a total of seven votes, while Ayo and Jess received four, meaning they were one of four couples who have made it to Monday’s final.

Matilda Draper and Sean Stone also received two votes from former contestants Omar Nyame and Vint.

Before the decision was announced,’ host Maya Jama told the contestants: ‘Today, one final couple will be dumped from the villa, ending their Love Island journey and that decision isn’t in your hands.

‘Your future on Love Island will be decided by some very familiar faces.’

Then, a series of former Islanders made their way into the villa, and headed to the firepit.

The group were then asked to choose which couple they wanted to send home and they opted for Joey and Jessy.

Joey subsequently claimed that he was leaving the villa ‘at a good time’.

He explained: ‘It feels good to be leaving.

‘I feel like I had an amazing run in there, went through the full cycle of emotions you get in the villa, and if you have to leave, you might as well go out with a bang … It’s my birthday on Monday so feels like I’m going out at a good time.’

Joey – who first found fame on The Only Way Is Essex more than a decade ago – later explained that he ‘never expected to win the show’.

Asked how he’ll approach life after leaving the villa, Joey replied: ‘Visit my friends and family, maybe apologise to a few for keeping it a secret for them, and then crack on with life, Joey Essex style.’

Maya made a dramatic return to the Love Island villa a for the first time following her shock split from Stormzy to reintroduce the former Islanders.

The Love Island presenter, 29, and the rapper, 30, confirmed their breakup is ‘final’ in a statement earlier this month, after previously going their separate ways in 2019 and reconnecting in August last year.

And after enjoying a lavish girls holiday in Ibiza, Maya is throwing herself back into work as she makes a shock entrance into the villa just one day before the ITV2 final.

Maya showed off her jaw-dropping figure in a stylish pink minidress and towering heels as she strutted into the villa.  

The islanders are left gobsmacked with her entrance as she says: ‘Hello my honeys,’ before making a very dramatic announcement. 

Maya will reveal the results of last night’s vote as she explains: ‘Last night, you each chose two couples who you thought were least compatible.’

The Islanders are heard whispering to their partners, ‘this is savage’ while another name read is said to be ‘expected’.  

Revealing which couples are vulnerable and therefore at risk, Maya says: ‘Today, one final couple will be dumped from the Villa ending their Love Island journey and that decision isn’t in your hands. 

‘Your future on Love Island will be decided by some very familiar faces.’

As shock ascends across the Villa, Ciaran says: ‘No, what?’

Led by the first dumped Islander of the series Sam and followed by Patsy, former Islanders Munveer, Samantha, Omar, Harriett, Ronnie, Uma, Wil, Jess, Hugo, Grace and Reuben, all gather around the fire pit with the power in their hands.

Maya informs them: ‘Today, you all have a very important decision to make, you must now individually decide which of these four couples you think are least compatible and you would like to dump from the Villa. The couple with the most votes will leave the Villa immediately.’

As drama ensues around the fire pit the dumped Islanders come towards the end of making their decisions and Maya says: ‘Samantha, stand up please.’

Samantha explains her decision: ‘It is a really hard decision, I haven’t met half of you because I was only here for two weeks. I do think this person in particular has a game plan and he has since day one.

‘I do think he has a lot of opinions on everyone else’s relationship but as soon as it comes to his own he bites the bullet a bit doesn’t he. Personally, I don’t think that this person deserves to be in the final so I’m picking…’

ITV viewers will have to wait and see which couple will narrowly miss out on the final when the dumped islanders make their decisions tonight.   

It comes after MailOnline revealed that the ITV2 star Maya and BRIT Award winner Stormzy split after disagreements over when to settle down.

Sources told MailOnline the couple conflicted over their lifestyles, with Stormzy more of a homebody.

Meanwhile, Maya, who’s at the top of her game as the face of luxury fashion brand Dolce & Gabbana, ambassador for Rimmel London, and is sought after by streaming giant Netflix, is focused on her career at present.

A source close to the couple revealed: ‘Maya and Stormzy are very much on different pages when it comes to their future.

‘Stormzy was keen to settle down whereas Maya is enjoying her career, she’s ambitious, and wants to prioritise achieving everything she possibly can.

‘She also loves travelling and partying, at just 29 she’s not ready for the next chapter just yet.’

The couple’s statement read: ‘We’ve been laughing whilst drafting this because we never, ever, in a million years thought we’d be the couple announcing a breakup.

‘But for the sake of clarity and, more importantly, to allow us the space and grace that’s needed for us both to be able to navigate this next bit of our lives with peace, we thought it might be best to.

‘We fell madly in love in 2014, broke up in 2019, and then spent five years manoeuvring life apart.

‘We decided to try for the final time in August 2023, and we’ve spent this past year trying our best to make it work; however, we recently decided to call it quits.

Maya and Stormzy made separate appearances at Wimbledon last month, with the rapper attending evian’s Mountain of Youth VIP suite on the Thursday solo, while Maya partied until the early hours at celebrity haunt the Chiltern Firehouse.

They were last seen together holding hands on July 5 at the F1 Grand Prix at Silverstone, where Stormzy performed a headline set. 

The couple also attended Glastonbury festival earlier this year before Maya flew via helicopter to the ITV studios where she presents Love Island spin-off show Aftersun live on a Sunday evening. 

In recent weeks, Stormzy has launched House Party, a bar he has co-founded in Soho, London, which has been transformed to feel and look like an old-school house party.

Maya shared video footage on her Instagram story from the star-studded launch night on June 6, where the couple were joined by the likes of Louise Redknapp and Julie Adenuga.

Stormzy released his debut EP Dreamers Disease the same year he started dating Maya, with the couple referencing 2014 as when they ‘fell madly in love.’ 

In their statement, they retold their love story, documenting the five years they spent navigating separate lives. 

During that time, Maya was engaged to US basketball star Ben Simmons but they called it off after eight months. 

Maya and Stormzy broke up for the first time in 2019 amid speculation the rapper had been unfaithful, with him later confessing in song Lessons: ‘I done the dirt and then I figured that you’ll dig it out.’