Love Island winners Greg and Amber split
The rugby player has opened up about their break up
SAMUEL MCMANUS
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Love Island winner and rugby player Greg O'Shea confirmed his split from Amber Gill, speaking out about their break up on live TV.
The 24-year-old made an appearance on The Late Late Show on Friday night alongside Maura Higgins and Curtis Pritchard, who replaced Amber, 22.
Greg denied dumping Amber by text message as earlier reported, citing the split was a mutual decision to protect their careers, writes OK! Magazine .
Love Island winners Greg O'Shea and Amber Gill reportedly split
He told host Ryan Tubridy: "Me and Amber have been chatting over the last couple of days and over phone calls, this whole thing about a text message isn't true, people just want to tell stories.
Amber and Greg on Loose Women last month (Image: ITV)
"We're mad about each other, I'm mad about her, what's not to be mad about? She's gorgeous, smart, funny, personality, the queen of Love Island for a reason.
"But you need to be realistic about the situation, she lives in the UK, every brand wants to work with her, every event wants her there, of course, she deserves all of it.
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"And I've come back to Ireland to do my thing here, hoping to get to the Olympics with the Sevens team, I have my law exams coming up, so we're both so jam packed busy and you need to take these opportunities by the scruff of the neck and be realistic about the situation so we're protecting our careers, that's where we are at the moment."
Speaking about their decision, he added: "It was over a long time, it wasn't over a text, it was a couple of days.
"I'm mad about her and I hope she's mad about me so we'll see about the future."
A source had previously told The Sun Online: "Greg has broken up with Amber and is blaming their busy schedules and now they want to focus on their careers.
"Amber feels used by Greg. He was always aware of the distance and his career in their relationship, and yet he chose to seek out Amber in the villa knowing there would always be the distance.
"He hasn't made any effort to come to London to see Amber, despite it being over five weeks, it's always Amber who had to make the effort."
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"Amber is devastated," said the insider. "She thought he was a lovely guy, but he's made his feelings clear over text, which isn't very sensitive.
"She had a feeling he was going to make decision to end things but only because she'd been hearing things.
"He hadn't the decency to tell her himself until she confronted the issue. They had a lovely weekend in Dublin planned but he's just pulled the plug and left her wounded.
"Amber loved her time in the villa with Greg it's just not been the same since he left for Ireland."
The Late Late Show confirmed Amber wouldn't be appearing on the programme by teasing an appearance from a mystery Love Island star.
Sharing a collage of their guests, Greg appears next to Maura, but there is a blank box next to them, filled with a large black question mark.
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They wrote to their thousands of Instagram followers: "Who will be the third Love Islander on tonight's #LateLate? Find out at 9.35pm."
Many fans of the show correctly guessed they would be joined by Maura's partner Curtis on the popular show, as he announced he had arrived in Dublin on Friday morning.
A representative for RTE, the channel The Late Late Show airs on, told OK! online earlier in the day: "The Love Island slot is in the first part of tonight's show and we won't be commenting further on tonight's line-up at this time."
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