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Love Island 2025 has arrived and we’ve got plenty of drama, bombshells and twists heading our way but who’s been coupled up together in the villa?
After months of eagerly waiting for the new season of Love Island to drop, it’s finally here and we are soo ready to see how the cast crack on with their new love interests.
Season 12 kicked off on Monday 9th June and the show’s producers certainly wasted no time jumping straight into the theatrics as they introduced a surprise new method for the first coupling.
The new matchmaking process meant that island babes had to choose their new partners based on a ‘bio’ the boys had written for themselves, rather than the usual first impressions or public vote.
Throughout the season they'll be many bombshells, brutal dumpings and romantic recouplings which can be hard to keep up with. So here's a full rundown of who's in a couple now and how each recoupling played out.
Yet another recoupling was sprung on the islanders on Monday's episode (30th June) and the most shocking thing to come out of it was Helena and Ben forming an unlikely couple.
Remell and Megan were dumped before this coupling so they aren't included in the new couples:
The fifth recoupling was kind of a half recoupling as it only involved those at 'The Sleepover'. Four new bombshells, Will Means, Giorgio Russo, Caprice Alexandra and Poppy Harrison invited Helena, Emily, Remell and Dejon for a sleepover in a separate villa.
After their night of fun, the main islanders were given the option to couple up with one of the bombshells or stay in the couple at home. Dejon, Emily and Remell all stuck in their couples but Helena decided to couple up with Giorgio which meant Shea back in the villa was dumped.
Here's how the couples looked after that:
The fourth recoupling came in the midst of chaos for the islanders and while the power was in the girls' hands, some of them (Helena) had no clue who they were going to pick.
With an equal ratio of boys to girls, no one was left at risk of being dumped but they were in for a treat as four new bombshells stormed into the villa soon after the recoupling.
This time the boys had the power, here's who coupled up with who:
Once all the boys had coupled up, Toni and Malisha were left single and at risk of being dumped. The vulnerable girls were then sent on a date with bombshell Harrison who would determine their fate.
After the dates Harrison felt he connected better with Toni, so while they arrived back at the villa together, Malisha was sent home.
It was the girls time to choose in this recoupling after bombshells Remell and Shea had arrived. Here's who ended up together:
After American bombshell Toni stole Ben off of Shakira, Shakira had to graft the boys in the hopes that she'd find a connection with one of them and not be sent home single.
Shakria ended up making three connections as Harry, Blu and Conor all stood up for the chance to recouple with her. The Burnley lass was then left with the tough decision of who to pick because her choice meant whatever girl they were coupled up with would be dumped from the island.
After a long debate, and some encouraging words from Maya Jama, Shakira chose Harry which meant Sophie was dumped from the island.
These were all the couples that emerged from Shakira's brutal decision:
It’s safe to say the new coupling method certainly threw the Love Island cast into chaos during the season’s first episode, as they were essentially made to 'blindly' choose their first partner.
Each girl was shown a dating profile placard for each of the guys in the villa, which only revealed their name, age, job, height and a tagline they had come up with for themselves. Based on this info they then had to pick who they wanted to be matched with.
These were all the couples that emerged from the 'type on paper' task:
Be sure to bookmark this page as we'll be updating it after every recoupling through the summer.