Lucinda And Aaron Are Already Over, Just 72 Hours After Leaving The Love Island Villa

When Love Island’s Lucinda Strafford decided to stay as her love interest Brad McClelland left the villa, fans, as well as fellow islanders, questioned her reasons for staying. But a burgeoning romance with Aaron Francis proved doubters wrong.

Their romance blossomed over the past couple of weeks, and when they were unceremoniously dumped from the island on Sunday, the pair seemed confident about their future together.

In her interview to camera, Lucinda said “I’m excited to see where life takes me. I left with Aaron which is amazing so I am happy. It is bittersweet because I loved it there and you never want to go, but your time comes, and it does for everyone.” 'At the time when Brad left I was really upset but I’m happy that I stayed because I carried on and saw Aaron in another way. I feel like when I went in, there was Brad and Aaron and it was nice to focus on one person. It meant that I could connect with Aaron and we get on really well.” She then stated that she “definitely want[s] to continue things with Aaron.”

For his part, Aaron seemed less committed. “'We were only coupled up for a couple of days unfortunately but I think first of all we want to start with a first date. We haven’t had a first date yet,” he said. “We’ve just been getting to know each other within the villa so everyone else has been around. I’d like to start with a first date, that would be nice. I’ve planned a little something, a surprise for her. And then we’ll just move from there.”

But if Lucinda’s recent comments to the Daily Mail are anything to go by, things between the pair have cooled pretty quickly, with the 26-year-old admitting she “didn't find love” in the villa, but that the two have promised to remain good friends. So what went wrong in the 72 hours since?

“It was weird,” Lucinda said. “Aaron and I were at the airport, and we were like, we don't even have each other's numbers. We were hugging goodbye and thought we need to exchange numbers.”

'We've kept in contact, we're both in isolation, and there has [sic] been a couple of messages here and there. We did like each other in the villa, which was quite obvious, but we were only coupled up for a few days. It's so crazy to think I was in there for almost three weeks, I feel like I blinked, and it was over.”

Lucinda denies rumours that she was not actually single while on the island, and was in fact back with her ex who was dog-sitting her pug while she was away. “I am completely and utterly single. Never in a million years would I go on Love Island if I was in a relationship, and I'm sure if I had a boyfriend, he wouldn't be very happy with it either.”

'We ended quite dramatically at the start of March but then we made friends, and we share a dog, it's a shared dog and he's been looking after it,” she said.

With the prospect of her and Aaron racing off into the sunset together abruptly quashed, what could be next for Lucinda? There’s always Brad who has maintained outside the villa that Lucinda’s feelings for Aaron aren’t genuine and says he wouldn’t rule out rekindling their romance.

It doesn’t look like Lucinda is on the same page though.

“The aim of the game is to find love and I did really want to… I made amazing friends in there.”

Friends….okay. Maybe next time, Brad?