LOVE Island star Wes Nelson made a thinly-veiled swipe at Molly-Mae Hague after she claimed appearing on the reality show did not help her career.
Series four star Wes made his comments during the recent Channel 4 documentary, Untold: Life After Love Island.
Wes Nelson made the comments in the recent Life After Love Island documentary
Molly-Mae claims Love Island didn’t help make her famous
Wes has gone on to enjoy a stellar career
Speaking on the programme about how Love Island helped him, Say Nothing singer Wes said: “You can bet your bottom dollar that I would’ve made sure I was in the position, one way or the other, 100 per cent.
“Has it helped me, has it boosted me? Of course. I’m not here to say it’s not done anything for me, this is all my work. No, it has.”
He went on to add: “It’s given me a platform. But how you use that platform is very, very important, because there’s hundreds and hundreds of Islanders now that have had this platform.”
Earlier this year Molly said she believed she would have been just as successful without ever appearing on the programme.
She admitted to Steven Bartlett on The Diary Of A CEO, that her ‘work ethic’ would have allowed her to achieve the same levels of success and fame.
She said: “There was a side of me that thought, I can actually do this without going on this show.
“I think I was about 170,000 followers at that point and that was all organic growth. There was no TV shows or anything.
“I’d say now if I hadn’t gone on the show I’d like to say I’d still be hitting a million followers because I had that really good work ethic with my Instagram.”
Molly and Wes did have similar viewpoints when it came to the idea that each Islander has a platform and can choose what they want to do with it.
However, Molly believed it was the work ethic that she had accrued before taking part in the reality TV show that ‘elevated’ her.
She added: “When you come off that show you’re all on a level playing field and it’s totally up to you where you go with it, and I just knew that I wanted to go to levels that no-one had ever gone to.
“And that’s why I never really speak about it, because I just feel like I don’t owe… that’s not the reason why I am where I am now.
‘Yeah it gave me a platform, yeah it elevated me, but the things I’ve done now are not because of Love Island. They’re because of me and what I decided to do with my work ethic.”
Wes is now working as a professional singer and musician
Molly is currently expecting her first child
