BRAKE UP
Love Island millionaire unrecognisable 6 years after being kicked out of villa and dumped by co-star
He was involved in a 'brutal' binning over Instagram
POSH London lad Charlie Brakes looks like a different person after exiting the island six years ago.
Chelsea boy Charlie, who was on series four of Love Island in 2018, coupled up with Ellie Brown after meeting her in Casa Amor.
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The 28-year-old looks buff in his Instagram pictures, complete with longer, tousled hair and a beard.
The businessman has clearly been spending time in the gym after showing off a new toned, tanned physique.
The former clean-cut blond socialite was in the villa with Dani Dyer and Jack Fincham who won the show.
Charlie and Ellie split just months after amid claims he had been unfaithful.
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He denied cheating and broke the news of their split on Instagram — with Ellie claiming she was in the dark.
The Geordie explained previously about the mess: "He’d done it on his Instagram story and I know he said we spoke on the phone, but the phone call was me like, 'I know what you’ve done'."
Posting on her Instagram story, Brown wrote after their split: “Firstly, I just want to say a massive thank you to everybody who has sent me lots of love since Tuesday but I beg you to please stop coming to me with articles that claim I brought this on myself.
“I am trying to deal with this as best and as quietly as a possible but it is hard and if you really believe that you are just as cowardly as the person who said it.
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“By no means am I saying I was the perfect girlfriend but I adored Charlie from the bottom of my heart and he knows that.”
Charlie's statement read: “Just to inform you all, Ellie and I have decided to part ways. I wish her all the best.”
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The minted star, whose family sold their company for £434million in 2002, also had a brief stint on Celebrity Ex On The Beach.
He is the grandson of the founder of food catering company, Brakes.
The entrepreneur has previously been linked to fellow Love Island star Megan Barton Hanson in 2019 and TV presenter Jenny Powell in 2020.
The former Love Island star says he can no longer watch the series because he knows exactly how it works.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun at the Gelida Devices Summer Summit at Nobu Portman Hotel in London, he said: "I haven’t tuned in since the year after I was in it, so 2019.
"I was an avid watcher the year before I went on it, then you kind of know [what’s the deal].
"I think it’s all a bit staged, not to the point where people tell you what to do, but runners and executives will come in and they’ll put you in a position and go and grab Adam for a chat about the argument he’s had with x, y and z.
"So they’ll put you in a position, but they don’t tell you what to say.
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"I know the deal, so once I see a conversation or whatever, I know exactly how it’s been choreographed."
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