Years earlier than Chris Hughes began courting Celeb Huge Brother UK castmate JoJo Siwa, he was a finalist on Love Island.
Chris was 24 years outdated when he appeared as a bombshell on the third season of Love Island UK, which aired on ITV beginning in June 2017. (Followers can now rewatch the episodes through Hulu.)
“I’m open-minded,” Chris, who labored on his household’s farm earlier than becoming a member of the present, mentioned throughout his first night time within the Spanish villa. “There are two sides to me. There’s Humorous Chris after which there’s, like, Actually Humorous Chris.”
Chris’ humor got here out straight away when he jokingly proclaimed to be “extra” engaging than David Beckham.
Hughes additionally wasted no time impressing the women, occurring dates with Camilla Thurlow, Montana Brown and Chloe Crowhurst earlier than finally honing his sights on Olivia Attwood. The TV presenter and Olivia, regardless of a bumpy highway, ended season 3 in an unique relationship and completed in third place. They in the end broke up one yr later.
Olivia finally settled down with now-husband Bradley Dack, whereas Chris briefly dated Little Combine alum Jesy Nelson in 2019 earlier than connecting with Siwa.
“It’s a lovely journey. I don’t know the way the universe [aligned] for Chris to return into my life,” JoJo gushed on the “Rosebud” podcast in June 2025. “I wasn’t trying to fall for him. He wasn’t trying to fall for me. We have been simply having a lot enjoyable collectively. … Over a little bit little bit of time, I spotted that I began to really feel one thing for Christopher that I by no means supposed to, however I couldn’t not really feel.”
Revisit Chris’ greatest moments from the Love Island villa:
Lifting the Temper With Raps
Considered one of Chris’ costars was Marcel Somerville, who was beforehand in British rap group Blazin’ Squad. Upon his musical disclose to the forged, Chris and Kem Cetinay additionally shared that they might rap. Chris and Kem subsequently by no means missed a second to spit some impromptu bars, whether or not throughout a expertise present, at Casa Amor or mid-argument.
“Would you like me to rap anybody, elevate the temper a bit?” Chris infamously quipped after a bombshell recoupling that pressured Kem and then-girlfriend Amber Davies aside with newcomer Georgia Harrison’s arrival.
After leaving the villa, Chris and Kem additionally launched a full model of their onscreen “Little Bit Depart It” rap with an accompanying music video.
Ups and Downs With Olivia
Chris and Olivia’s Love Island romance went by way of the ringer.
“You’ve acquired an awesome rig and your face is gorgeous,” Chris mentioned, apologizing. “I believed a rig was a physique, like, you’re gorgeous and them freckles by no means go amiss. I have a look at these freckles day-after-day, and I see a brand new one and it turns into my good friend. So, they’re all pals of mine. I consider that you’re you, and I like you for precisely who you might be.”
After all, Chris and Olivia’s journey was removed from easy crusing, riddled with a number of fights, breakups and reconciliations. Throughout one in every of their fights within the forged’s communal bed room, Chris urged Olivia to “sit again down” subsequent to him on the mattress.
Olivia, in the meantime, had but to face up and retorted, “I’m sat.” (The alternate has gone viral on TikTok.)
The Most Iconic Bromance in ‘Love Island’ Historical past
Whereas Chris and Olivia made viewers swoon, they have been simply as invested in his budding friendship with Kem. Along with raps, the friends and costar Dom Lever often coordinated outfits. One night time, all three males wore matching olive T-shirts with white skinny denims and posed in a daybed collectively.
After leaving the island, Chris and Kem, in the meantime, went on to look on ITV’s You vs. Chris and Kem spinoff later in 2017 and the U.Ok.’s movie star model of Hunted in 2018.
“I’m not like this with my different mates,” Chris had instructed The Instances of London in 2017. “Kem simply will get me extra.”
In response to Kem, they simply have a “sturdy connection.”
“I really feel actually strongly about guys being open about their emotions,” the hairstylist added. “I feel that’s what makes me and Chris so distinctive. Plenty of boys relate to us — we’re so open, so delicate, we’ve got that aspect to us, and I feel that’s what offers us that variety.”
Introducing Money Hughes — Sure, You Learn That Accurately
In the course of the season’s fan-favorite child problem, Chris and Olivia taken care of a child doll that they named Money “after [their] favourite factor.” They later laughed that the doll’s moniker was pronounced the identical as a cashew nut.
All through their parenting problem, Chris went above and past to be careful for little Money. He modified faux diapers, utilized sunscreen, made positive to place a hat on him once they have been within the solar — and even cried a bit.
“Why am I getting crying?” he quipped to Olivia, wiping away tears. “It’s as a result of I care concerning the child. Oh, my God, what has gotten into me?”