LOVE Island’s Davide Sanclimenti and Ekin-Su Culculoglu have broken their silence over ‘cheating’ rumours after he was pictured with two Icelandic girls.
Speculation was rife after Davide, 27, was snapped getting into a cab with the pair of beauties after KSI’s fight at the O2 last week.
Ekin-Su and Davide have broken their silence on ‘cheating’ rumours
Davide said Ekin-Su ‘knows the truth’
The images emerged while Ekin-Su, 28, was on a work trip in Los Angeles.
Appearing on This Morning, the Turkish star and the Italian hunk has set the record straight and insisted nothing untoward took places.
Speaking to co-hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, Phil was quick to address cheating rumours.
Host Phil said: “The trouble is, you are very strong the pair of you which is great and helps if you are pictured in a cab with two Icelandic ladies.”
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Davide replied: “It’s not been nice for her to be in this situation, but we were speaking all night…so she knew the truth.”
Ekin-Su said she was startled when fans began messaging her, promoting her to call the Davide to find out what was going on.
The Turkish star explained: “I was on a shoot; I think it was nighttime and I had fans going ‘Ekin your man has been seen you two girls’ and I immediately text Davide going ‘what’s going on?’ and I called him, and we spoke, and I know from the club that he went to there was a bunch of people as well.”
Defending the Italian hunk, Ekin-Su continued: “There was only limited cabs.
“It wasn’t just them that turned up at a hotel…it wasn’t just Davide and these two girls and his friend at the club, there was a group of them.
“It’s nice that fans are sticking up but a relationship is always private and only you know the truth and that’s it, you just have to block it out.
“Even in real life, when you’re not in the public eye. People are going to say things at work, like ‘she’s flirting with her boss’.
“You just have to cut it all out and be you.”
On August 27 Davide was seen jumping into the cab and sharing a laugh with one of the girls, Anita Gunnarsdottir.
The other, Matthildur Ylfa Þorsteinsd – who had earlier posted footage of Davide at the event – sat alongside her.
Reps for both Ekin and Davide declined to comment at the time, but after The Celeb Report published the video, Ekin called herself a “boss babe” and “authentic” in a post on social media.
She also posted a sexy gym selfie from her hotel in LA as she did a night-time workout.
Fans were quick to defend Davide, however, taking to Reddit to fight his corner and reveal what actually happened.
One Love Island fan also shared a video on TikTok which saw Davide standing with the two girls and a larger group.
She captioned the video: “I took these coming from the ksi fight. tbf there was more girls than guys (like 2 or 3 guys and 5 girls), but they got a taxi that could only fit 4 so the others got another.”
Since returning from the US, Ekin-Su has been doing promo in Ireland, where she appeared on the legendary Late Late Show.
Ekin-Su, 28, was speaking to Ryan Tubridy on Irish channel RTE One on Friday, when the questions turned serious and she opened up about being bullied when she was younger.
She explained to the Late Late Show: “At school I had a hard time, I was bullied. I was quite overweight, I had no friends.
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“I used to eat my lunch in the toilet on my own. I’d lock myself away.
“I just felt like you know what, it doesn’t matter if I’ve got my friends. Naturally you just made friends who like you for you.”
Ekin-Su and Davide put on a united front as they appeared on This Morning
