Love Island star Yasmin's heartbreaking truth behind not having sex with Jamie yet

Love Island fan-favourite Yasmin Pettet revealed she and Jamie Rhodes have not yet been intimate following their time in the Spanish villa. The ITV2 icon was heartbroken after leaving the show as her beloved cat Miaow Miaow passed away while she was filming.

Earlier this month, she revealed: "As I've spoken about her on the show, I'm sure a lot of you will know I have a cat called miaow miaow who's been by my side for 11 years now. When I was filming Love Island I had a bad gut feeling something was off and when my mum and sister came into the villa I asked them and still felt like something was off."

Revealing that her family chose not to tell of her of the tragedy at the time and she was informed by her sister once filming had finished, she added: "Rightfully they didn't tell me because I was still in the villa but after the final I called my sister and she told me that miaow miaow had cancer and died whilst I was away filming Love Island.

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"I'm trying to be as active as I can on socials, but am taking time for myself to process this heartbreak., RIP to my beautiful baby girl, you were so loved and will always be in my soul."

The star has been grieving the loss, and Jamie has been providing her with emotional support. In a new interview, Yasmin revealed there has been 'no rush' in their romance.

"I’ve been going through grief and Jamie will just sit there when I cry on him," Yas said to The Sun. "I’ve taken a lot of time to process my emotions, so Jamie and I haven’t been intimate yet."

She continued: "He’s so patient. He’s never rushed that, because he knows it will happen at the right time."

Meanwhile, the finalists- including Yasmin, Shakira and Toni - of this series recently took a jab at ITV bosses, accusing them of portraying them as 'villains' throughout the series.

Love Island fans even previously criticised the editing of certain scenes, particularly during the much-anticipated Movie Night.

Speaking to The Sun's Fabulous magazine, Shakira said: “Yeah, they'd never show the other side of things, which was frustrating. We constantly felt like villains. Every chance they got, they tried to kill us off.”

Toni chimed in: “During the first public vote, Shakira and I were both in the bottom. We spent weeks thinking that it was us against the world, because that's how everyone in there made us feel.”

Despite this series being one of the more heated ones in recent memory, the women confessed that many of the Islanders genuinely didn't get along 'for weeks'.

Toni revealed: “A lot of us really just didn't get along. For weeks and weeks, there were no solid couples, because no one could even stand to speak to each other!”

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