Love Island Sammy Root and Elma Pazar have been plagued by split rumours since leaving the ITV show
Love Island’s Sammy Root and Elma Pazar have been stirring up a storm on social media, with fans buzzing about whether they’ve called it quits. The pair, who walked out of the Love Island: All Stars villa hand in hand back in February, have been an item ever since.
Before their island romance, they’d already had a cheeky flirt on ITV’s The Only Way is Essex, but didn’t really hang out much after the cameras stopped rolling.
But when Sammy, 24, strutted into All Stars as a bombshell, he only had eyes for Elma, and it looks like his charm offensive paid off.
Despite being loved-up, the couple got some stick in April when Elma, 32, dropped a vague TikTok that had fans thinking she was calling her beau a ‘red flag.’ It’s not just the vid causing a stir though, Sammy reckons break up rumours often sparks from “the tiniest” things, reports OK!.
They’ve even got their own strategy for dealing with all the gossip.
In an interview with OK! Magazine’s Screen Time team, he spilled: “I don’t really know where the rumours come from. Its usually the tiniest little thing; I could post carrousel pictures and it won’t have her in it or she’ll do the same to me, and then apparently we’ve broken up.”
Despite the false alarms, he gets why some Love Island fans are dead keen on following former flames. “I think when people watch the show they get attached to the couples, which is understandable,” he admitted.
He went on to say: “I think some people probably get a bit passionate about each couple. So they like to see pictures of you together. Whenever I’m posting content and I’m not with Elma. There’s always comments saying ‘Where’s Elma?'”
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The pair’s reaction to the rumours is simply to have a giggle. “If I see anything about us being broken [up] out, I’ll just DM it to Elma and we’ll just laugh about it,” Sammy confessed.
The ITV celeb added: “I’ll ring her and say ‘look what I’ve just sent you’ and it’ll be a post saying Sammy and Elma just broke up. And we would’ve just been sat on the sofa eating caramel nibbles.”
The lovebirds have also found themselves at the centre of a social media conspiracy theory suggesting they were an item before their Love Island: All Stars debut.
Eagle-eyed fans have dug up Instagram comments between the two dating back to 2024, which they believe points to a hush-hush romance sparked during their TOWIE days.
But Sammy has put an end to that theory, chuckling at the idea that social media interactions equals a secret love affair.
“What everyone doesn’t understand is everything that they’ve seen on TOWIE is the full extent of what happened,” Sammy asserted.
“There was nothing that happened behind closed doors. Elma and I never even kissed or spent any time together. We just we flirted a little bit and filmed a couple of scenes for the show.”
Since his departure from the ITV show, the ex-Love Island champ has now dived into the world of horology, heading up his own watch raffle business, The Watch Draw.
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Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
