Evicted ‘Love Island’ star Lucie Donlan is backing Anton Danyluk following his explosive row with Belle Hassan in the latest episode of the ITV2 reality dating show.
Lucie has come to the defence of her friend Anton after the 21-year-old star blasted her villa beau for choosing to kiss Anna Vakili, 29, during a challenge on the instalment that aired on Sunday night (14.07.19).
Appearing on ‘Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp’, she said: "I don’t think she was in the right. Anton was so in the right. He literally, a few weeks before – we had the kissing challenge and Anna was classed the best kisser so made sense, they’re so close, best friends, nothing between them.
"He went over, kissed Anna just as a quick one and then he was gonna say something really lovely to Belle and bless him, and it all kicked off. And I felt sorry for him because he was gonna say something nice."
Belle reacted very badly to the lighthearted moment in the villa, and insisted she didn’t see the funny side.
She told the 24-year-old hunk: "If you’re sitting there saying I possess a lot of qualities of someone you’d want to marry, why are you kissing someone else? I don’t care if it’s a challenge, I don’t find that funny."
Meanwhile Lucie, 21, also revealed if she could couple up with any of the boys in the villa right now, she would still want to be with 20-year-old boxer Tommy Fury.
She explained: "Right now, you know who it would be right now – it would still be Tommy. That’s because he’s still the guy in there that I told him before I left that I liked so that was literally a few days ago."
However, she insisted she wouldn’t try to pursue anything now, and while he felt like she needed to let him know how she felt, Lucie doesn’t want to get between Tommy and Molly-Mae Hague.
She added: "Well I liked him I mean but he’s with Molly, I don’t want to ruin anything, I just needed to get it off my chest and tell him.
"So I didn’t expect anything there. I know he doesn’t like me back – we’re best friends. It was probably a bit weird but I needed to get it off my chest and tell him."
Tune in to ‘Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp’, weekdays from 6am – 10am.
Lucie Donlan feels sorry for Anton Danyluk after Belle Hassan row
