Shaughna Phillips admits 'I got so much hate for supporting Love Island's Molly'
24.01.2024 - 22:19
/ ok.co.uk
Love Island's Shaughna Phillips says she was targeted by social media trolls for showing her support to Molly Smith on social media. The 29 year old, starred on the first Winter Series of Love Island in 2020, and now, she's OK! 's resident columnist, here to talk everything about Love Island All Stars, which is on our screens right now.
Shaughna was coupled up with Callum Jones for four weeks on her series of Love Island, before he came back from Casa Amor with Molly, who he went on to date for three years after the show ended, with the pair even moving in together before they split in late 2023. Callum and Molly have been reunited in the All Stars villa after a shock twist saw them both enter as bombshells, but it has not been a smooth reunion, as the pair have often clashed in the villa.
Despite her history with the pair, Shaughna has been backing Molly on social media, after Molly "stuck up for herself" when it came to Callum and how she was feeling. Shaughna exclusively tells OK! : "It was great when Molly stuck up for herself the other day when Toby was stirring the pot about Callum.
She just said exactly what she was thinking about Callum, when they were in a relationship. "So, I added a snap of Molly to my Instagram stories and called her a Queen, because I just love it when girls stick up for themselves and say what they really think.
But I got so much hate for it in my DMs.
There was a lot of support for Callum, with so many people saying she was horrible to him, and I just don't think that she was - she was literally saying, 'if you want me, show me you want me'. "People just seem to be nervous of a woman that speaks up, and speaks her mind, and I think that's a shame." However, Shaughna thinks that Callum and
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