Love Island 2024 winners split two months after final

Love Island's 2024 winners Mimii Ngulube and Josh Oyinsan person split.

The brace made past successful July erstwhile they became the archetypal achromatic mates to triumph the world show since it launched 9 years ago.

Posting connected Instagram, Mimii said she and Josh "have been trying to fig it retired since leaving the villa but unluckily things aren't going to enactment retired betwixt america close now".

Josh hasn't yet commented connected the break-up.

The mates were pictured unneurotic astatine the National Television Awards connected 11 September but fans had noticed the 2 hadn't been seen unneurotic successful nationalist astatine galore different events.

Revealing the split, Mimii acknowledged "a batch of you person been wondering astir Josh and I and wherefore we haven't been making appearances".

"I cognize it's a large disappointment for a batch of you arsenic it is for maine too," she wrote.

"Your enactment for america hasn't gone unnoticed and I volition everlastingly beryllium grateful for it."

She finished her connection by telling fans they were "the crushed we made it to this point".

Mimii, a intelligence wellness caregiver from Portsmouth, coupled up with semi-professional footballer Josh, from Dartford, aft returning azygous from Casa Amor.

She'd primitively been coupled up with Ayo Odukoya who returned from the different villa with a caller partner, Jess Spencer.

Josh was an land bombshell and aft coupling up with Mimii they bushed Ayo and Jess successful the final, arsenic good arsenic different finalists Nicole Samuel and Ciaran Davies, and Matilda Draper and Sean Stone.

In the past, Love Island has faced disapproval implicit however inclusive it is for achromatic and Asian islanders.

So erstwhile Mimii and Josh won, 1Xtra's Nadia Jae told BBC Newsbeat it was a large moment.

"For younger radical that are watching, it’s bully to spot that practice connected a primetime show," she said.

"I bash recognize that it can’t beryllium everybody successful the villa, but determination are beauteous radical from each antithetic diasporas that request to beryllium represented."

The 2024 bid of Love Island was 1 of its champion performing with audiences successful years aft a dip successful viewing figures since its heyday successful 2019.

ITV said astir 2 cardinal radical tuned successful for the opening occurrence - up from 1.3 cardinal successful 2023.

The bid besides featured TOWIE prima Joey Essex who quickly became the bookies' favourite to win but divided fans implicit whether it was close for a personage to instrumentality part.

He got the footwear close earlier the finale, aft erstwhile islanders were invited backmost to ballot retired 1 of the remaining couples.