MESSY SITUATION
Love Island’s Mitchel Taylor ‘axed by management’ as he admits to being thrown out of party amid homophobia claims
LOVE Island's Mitchel Taylor has been dropped by his management team after he was thrown out of a party and accused of making homophobic comments, according to reports.
Tonight, the reality star faced up to the controversy in a video message on TikTok, admitting he didn't conduct himself in the right way at makeup brand Space NK's event in London last week.
2
However, he vehemently denied using homophobic language and insisted he didn't throw money at a homeless person as had also been claimed.
His apology and denials have done little to appease his management though.
A source told : "His management have parted way with him. He's only been out of the villa two months and they can't put up with it."
Mitch's villa pal Zach Noble also issued a statement calling the whole thing "embarrassing" and denying wrongdoing, which was corroborated by his friend, who took full responsibility.
READ MORE ON MITCH TAYLOR
Multiple witnesses said the pair turned up uninvited and insulted guests inside after shouting "we're the most famous people in here".
Mitch said in his apology video: "Hey everyone, I’m making the statement because obviously over the weekend there were a lot of accusations and I want to start by apologising to Zach because these accusations have nothing to do with him.
"They are solely about me so I do want to talk about each one individually and put it to bed and give my side of the story.
"The first accusation I want to talk about is the words, 'we are the most famous people in here' that is actually true.
Most read in Celebrity
"I said that to Zach as a bit of banter but it’s been taken the wrong way by other people and I admit it wasn’t really that funny.
"I was trying to have a bit of a laugh and a bit of a joke."
Mitch continued: "Going onto the next accusation would be me throwing money at a homeless person.
"That is completely false I didn’t throw any money at a homeless person it was a kind gesture to give a homeless person money and it’s been twisted into an evil thing.
"It’s not true. I was trying to do a kind gesture and it’s been twisted."
Apologising for his reported behaviour, after one witness accused the reality stars of "bowling around like the most famous people there" he said: "I admit when I was at this event I was quite happy and quite loud.
"It’s a completely different world for me this, I’ve gone from fitting boilers to fancy events and it can come across unprofessional and I understand that and whoever was at the event and saw me acting like that I do want to apologise as well. It’s all new to me. But I am really trying to adjust to this lifestyle."
The gas engineer from Sheffield turned to "the biggest accusation" and insisted "I am not homophobic, I never have been."
"This is probably the biggest accusation out of them all that I was homophobic," he said.
"I was speaking to an influencer at the event and my words to them were I fancied you when you were straight. I can see how that comes across.
"I am really bad with my words sometimes I was just really nervous to meet this person because I am a fan of them and I do apologise.
"It’s just sometimes when I’m in scenarios like that I can’t really get my words out correctly and I was just trying to be as respectful to that person as I could and I kind of got it completely wrong.
"I wanted to end on this, I feel like you do deserve the truth. I have to be blatantly honest with exactly what went down and I do apologise that the statements took so long to come across.
"I had to take time away from social media over the weekend. The amount of hate death threats horrible comments that I’ve been getting I just couldn’t deal with it.
"So I just had to take some time away and just do my thing but hopefully that has cleared things up but moving forward I just want you to know I am not homophobic, I never have been."
One guest recounted the incident in a video last week which has been doing the rounds on social media.
But they did not name the Love Islanders, and fans of the show were left speculating about their identities.
In a now deleted video, the woman at the bash claimed she witnessed them throwing money at a homeless man and being ‘incredibly homophobic’ before the event organisers took action and removed them.
She claimed: “The event was slightly soiled on by two Love Islanders who are just the most vile pieces of s*** that I believe could ever have walked the planet.
“Turns out they weren’t even invited, they just turned up. Do you know what they said? I don’t even know if I can say this out loud without cringing because I’m embarrassed for them: ‘We’re actually the most famous people here’.
“They’re bowling around like the most famous people there, which is embarrassing."
She continued: "But where I draw the line is where I am stood outside in the rain with my friend having a chat and this homeless man walks past and he’s like has anybody got any money and [the Love Islander] puts his hand in his pocket, pulls out money and throws it at him. I see this with my own eyes.
“So the homeless man has to pick it up. They then proceeded to be incredibly homophobic and that is when the organisers were told and made them leave immediately because they do not tolerate homophobia or any other kind of disgusting behaviour.
"And when they heard what happened with the homeless man, they took zero tolerance and kicked them out.”
The woman added: “There was other things that happened as well but I didn’t see any of that. So I can’t speak of that but they were the most obnoxious, disgusting, vile cretins I’ve been in the room with.
READ MORE SUN STORIES
“I have never been in contact with two people who are so out of touch of reality and their behaviour is so disgusting.”
The event organisers declined to comment when approached by The Sun.
2
Topics