Love Island's Tyrique and Ella's date before the villa – how they met
ok.co.ukShortly after series 10 of Love Island kicked off it was revealed that Islanders Ella Thomas, 23, and Tyrique Hyde, 24, already know each other, although the encounter wasn’t a memorable one for Tyrique as he claimed he couldn’t remember.
Tyrique is a semi-professional footballer who originally hails from Essex and currently plays as a midfielder for East Sussex club Lewes FC.
He's the son of former Watford and Jamaica player Micah Hyde. Ella, originally from Glasgow in Scotland, is a successful model and was even awarded Female Model of the Year at the Scottish Media Awards in October 2022.
After the duo were chosen to couple up by the public at the start, Ella said that they first met in London and said: “I’m not being funny but he is literally pretending he doesn’t remember, but there’s no way he doesn’t remember.” However, she then revealed that she had blonde hair at the time which might have been why he was struggling to remember.The Tab have reported that there was a two-week window in February this year where Ella had blonde hair and she posted to Instagram revealing she was in London for the last weekend in February.
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