Love Island’s Faye Winters reveals the truth behind TV’s most complained about scene that sparked 25k Ofcom complaints – as she offers advice to the All Stars amid this year’s bullying row

Faye Winter has entered the Love Island All Stars bullying row after the show was hit with 200 Ofcom complaints.

Multiple fights broke out between the girls in the villa, with host Maya Jama having to intervene and fans even claiming the show had become ‘disturbing’ to watch.

Faye’s 2021 series of Love Island received a record-breaking 25,000 complaints to the broadcast watchdog following her expletive-filled rant at ex Teddy Soares.

Faye, now 30, said she was ‘proud’ of the growth she had made since leaving the villa and took full responsibility for her actions rather than ‘blaming the arrangement’.

In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, Faye offered her advice to islanders in the middle of the rows.

He said: ‘When I left the show I realized my behavior was not acceptable and I had to deal with it myself and deal with it myself.

Multiple fights broke out between the girls in the villa, with host Maya Jama having to intervene and fans even claiming the show had become ‘disturbing’ to watch

‘I’m really proud of myself for never being, I blame the editing. I never blamed anyone on the show, I took full responsibility and accountability.

‘And in a way it kind of hindered me a little bit because everyone was like, ‘We’ve never seen this in public before.’

‘A lot of people will gloss over that, but I didn’t want that because I wanted to use that moment in my life to really grow, and it was a difficult process of growing up.

‘It’s not easy to grow up, it’s easy to stay where you are. But no matter what, I hope both parties get the help and support they need.

‘Or if they don’t think they need it, I hope they go ahead and live it and have a great experience with whatever they choose to do next.

‘But I think when I was on the show mine wasn’t continuous, mine was one big explosion that’s been building for a long time.’

Faye added: ‘I don’t want to add fuel to the fire because I haven’t watched it. If there’s bullying, I don’t want to take anything away from it because it wouldn’t be fair for me to take anything away from it.’

During her tenure on the show, Faye was at the center of Love Island’s most complained-about moment ever; After seeing a clip of Teddy telling Clarisse Juliette that he was ‘sexually attracted’ to her, he went on an expletive-filled rant.

Despite the drama, Faye and Teddy reached the Love Island final and finished third, but they split two years later in 2013.

A full 24,763 viewers went to Ofcom to express their dismay; fans branded him ‘horrible’, ‘abusive’ and ‘gaslighter’ and called on producers to evict him from the villa.

Despite apologizing to Teddy and dating him for 18 months, Faye previously told Paul C Brunson that to this day she still receives messages from people attacking her over the incident and admitted she is ’embarrassed’ and ‘I let everyone down’.

Reflecting on the ordeal, Faye said she struggled to get out of bed at times for ‘days’ until her beloved dog Bonnie ‘rescued’ her.

Faye currently lives in Devon and is in the middle of renovating her ‘dream home’ as well as tending to her farm. She is also a keen animal campaigner and activist.

He added: ‘Bonnie saved my life and I’m not ashamed of it. That’s why I don’t feel guilty about saying it out loud. He saved my life. Before I had Bonnie, I was a shadow of my former self.

‘I wouldn’t leave my home, I wouldn’t go out without someone else, I didn’t know who I was, I didn’t know what I loved, I didn’t know what my passions were, I truly felt like I had lost everything about who I was.

‘And I caught it and honestly it was like a cloud had lifted. I held him in my arms and I remember crying so hard and saying: I know I will take care of you as much as I can.

‘He was the reason I went for my walks every day. She was the reason I could go to Tesco and carry her in my arms and not feel like no one was looking at me, everyone was looking at her, how beautiful she was and everyone was staring at me.

Following her stint on Love Island, Faye said she struggled to get out of bed for ‘days’ until her beloved dog Bonnie ‘rescued’ her.

Faye currently lives in Devon and is in the middle of renovating her ‘dream home’ as well as tending to her farm. She is also a keen animal campaigner and activist.

‘Not to say that everyone does in the first place, but I had the paranoia that everyone hated me because I was seen from one angle on TV and it was really difficult, and he saved my life and gave me confidence.’

He added: ‘There were times when I would just lie in my bed for days and not really worry about anything. It lifted me up and made me enjoy life again. And I’ll be forever grateful to him because, yeah, he totally saved this.’

Faye is spearheading Pet Anxiety Month this March in partnership with leading pet health brands Adaptil and Feliway.

Faye, a devoted dog mom to Bonnie, raises awareness about pet anxiety and why it shouldn’t be misunderstood or overlooked.

Faye explained: ‘I do everything I can for animal welfare. I really changed everything I did and surrounded my whole life around it, really.

‘I want people to understand that pet anxiety is something that affects many animals, and we need to understand this better so we can understand our animals and give them a better life.

‘Human rates are through the roof and sometimes we don’t expect animals to do the same but they do and you know we are seeing more and more animals in rehoming centres.

‘If I can get one person to realize that this is not bad behavior, it’s anxiety in your pets that you didn’t even know existed, and if it saves them from rehoming centres, or if we can make life at home more peaceful for them, then I’ve done my job.’

You can find out more about Pet Anxiety Month at www.adaptil.co.uk and www.feliway.co.uk.

Faye is hosting Pet Anxiety Month this March in partnership with leading pet health brands Adaptil and Feliway