Love Island icon Jasmine details the actual reason for her ‘sour’ relationship with Julia

Jasmine and Julia seemed to have a pretty tense relationship throughout Love Island 2026. In a viral moment from the final, Jasmine appeared to avoid hugging Julia after she and Lorenzo were announced as the winners. Now, Jasmine has gone into detail about why she wasn’t so keen on Julia. This is not the reason I expected.

On the NewlyParents podcast, Jasmine addressed how “the dynamic did change” when Julia joined the Love Island villa after Casa Amor. She explained: “I think Julia is a massive character. She’s such a confident, strong woman. She says how she feels.”

Kavan put in, “Very opinionated.”

“She’s super opinionated,” Jasmine continued, “I think sometimes I would see traces of myself in her. I’m like, ‘That’s iconic of you!’

Jasmine and Julia in the middle of a row
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“But I think where we started to struggle, maybe, as a girl group, was… what we were quite good at doing, is, I think, the emotional reading – the intelligence part of it. Like, if someone was feeling something, you just stop. You take a breather. And we’d be like, ‘Okay, we’ll talk about this later. It’s not that big of a deal. This is minor. I love you.’

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“Whereas, sometimes with Julia, I think the hard part was that she maybe didn’t necessarily clock, like, ‘You’re hurting someone now. This is maybe not the time.’ So that’s where it started to go sour.”

They really weren’t fans of each other
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According to Jasmine, there’s no earth-shattering feud between them now they’re out the villa. “Like, it’s so minor. We’ve all lived this experience together.”

Jasmine also claimed that she didn’t intentionally snub Julia at the final, and swerve to avoid hugging her. She said: “I don’t remember doing that. I think maybe Maya [Jama] grabbed me because she’s like, ‘[somebody] has to ask you something quickly.'”

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