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Former leader of New York Young Republicans endorsed by outgoing FCC commissioner to take up post
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I won first Love Island but the fall out from my instant fame was so bad I’ve given up sex for good, says Jessica Hayes
BEAMING Jessica Hayes had the world at her feet when she was crowned Love Island’s very first winner alongside hunky Max Morley.
But a decade later, the twice-engaged star has now taken a vow of celibacy and given up on romance after repeatedly having her heart broken.
As the hit ITV show celebrates its ten-year anniversary this week, 32-year-old Jess blames reality TV fame for sending her into a downward spiral.
She told The Sun on Sunday: “I’m so done with romance and dating.
I don’t miss sex or hugs or kisses. I don’t miss men at all, to be honest
Jess
“I don’t want to fall in love. I just want peace and I’m down with being celibate.
“I don’t miss sex or hugs or kisses. I don’t miss men at all, to be honest.
“Right now, I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I think I’m traumatised.”
It was a very different story in 2015 when then-host Caroline Flack announced Jess and Max, both 22 at the time, had won Love Island’s first series.
Wearing a figure-hugging red dress, the former bank worker from Gloucester threw her arms around her suited partner and shrieked in delight.
The smitten couple, who chose to share the £50,000 prize, received the most votes from the public after famously romping in the Mallorca villa as cameras rolled.
Max, a professional cricketer from Huddersfield, settled with brunette Jess despite temporarily leaving her to couple up with her arch-rival Naomi Ball.
The win was even more remarkable as Jess was drafted in at the last minute, having previously been told she had not made the cut.
But just six weeks after their triumph, the winners dramatically split when Max was caught spending the night with Geordie Shore reality star Charlotte Crosby.
Jess said: “I had no idea what I was in for.
“It was chaotic. You forget there is an outside world and it’s not normal to be locked in a confined space with a bunch of strangers for six weeks.
“I remember thinking, I wonder if anyone is watching this?
“We didn’t have a clue how big the show was going to be.
“To come out and find people running up to you in a shopping centre asking for a picture, it’s bizarre.
“Your life changes overnight.
“I had genuine feelings for Max, but personal appearances were a big thing back then.
‘I WAS HEARTBROKEN’
“The male Love Island stars would have girls literally throwing themselves at them in nightclubs, so it was never going to work.
“When he was photographed with Charlotte, I was genuinely upset.
“I know some relationships from the show have worked out, but I think they must have a different level of maturity.
“Max wasn’t that kind of guy.
“In my own way, I was heartbroken, and I don’t take heartbreak very well. I never have.”
Now a devoted single mum-of-two, Jess admits she got too caught up in the party lifestyle in her twenties.
A big wake-up call came with the suicides of Love Island stars Sophie Gradon, 32, in 2018, Mike Thalassitis, 26, the following year, and host Caroline, 40, in 2020.
Jess said: “It was awful what happened — just horrendous. This industry can be tough.
“My rock bottom was three years after the show.
“I remember feeling very lost and thinking, what now?
“You go out a lot and party a lot and sometimes it can be to excess and that’s not good for you.
“You come out of a show and you’re a celebrity and no one says, ‘This might only last five minutes’.
“I didn’t have good guidance or good management and that didn’t help me take the right path.
“There were points where I thought, what the hell am I doing?
“It’s late nights and drinking a lot. It’s not a normal lifestyle.
“You haven’t got a day job to go to and you’re going to showbusiness parties and film premieres.
“It’s a lot for a young person to handle and it’s a slippery slope.
“It’s not a Love Island thing, it’s just an issue of handling the fame.”
Jess’s love life has proven to be equally turbulent. After splitting with Max, she got engaged to mechanic Dan Lawry six months after they met.
The couple were overjoyed when she gave birth to their son Presley in 2019, but sadly she miscarried their second son Teddy at 19 weeks and they called time on their relationship in 2021.
Jess next found love with a property developer called Zeb — she declines to give his surname — and she suffered another miscarriage in April 2023 before their daughter Zendaya Rose was born in May last year.
The couple separated just before Christmas in 2024.
I don’t feel the need to get involved in relationships and I’m determined not to get back into bad old habits
Jess Hayes
Jess touchingly bounces her daughter on her knee during our interview.
On being a single mum, she said: “I couldn’t ask for more from my children’s dads.
“They are in their lives and they are good with them. Co-parenting is a bag of poop.
“It’s the worst thing ever. Over time, when you are a few years in, it’s more of a breeze.
“But right now, while she’s so little, I find it hard.
“I need a break sometimes because I’m going crazy, but when she’s not with me my anxiety goes through the roof.”
Last week, Jess took part in ITV’s Love Island: Decade Of Love show looking back on the programme’s most unforgettable moments, ahead of its return to our screens tomorrow.
Millie Court, 29, and Liam Reardon, 25 — who won in 2021 and are still a couple — also appeared on the anniversary show, proving that some Islanders have found The One while making millions in the process.
Jess has become a successful social media influencer with 337,000 followers on Instagram, yet admits her fortunes have been more mixed.
She said: “I was so naive when I went on Love Island.
“If I was watching the show now, I would say, ‘No Jess, what are you doing?’ I tolerated a lot in there.
“But I never think with my head and I’ve never made the right decisions in love.
“I’ve been really impulsive and I rush into things too quickly. It gets me nowhere and I get hurt.
“That’s why I want to be independent and focus on me and making money — and things that are long-term for my kids.
“I don’t feel the need to get involved in relationships and I’m determined not to get back into bad old habits.
I’m not materialistic at all now and I think that having children, your priorities change
Jess
“I haven’t made millions of pounds or amassed millions of followers from going on Love Island, but I will never regret my journey.
“It’s given me a steady income for ten years and that makes me one of the lucky ones.
“Part of me wishes I’d had a few more opportunities, whether that be in TV or whatever.
“But if you’re handed a lot of money when you are young, you can be quite careless.
“I’m not materialistic at all now and I think that having children, your priorities change.
“And if my daughter tells me she wants to apply for the show in 20 years time I will tell her, ‘No way — not unless I’m your manager’.”
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Body found in search for missing woman, 46, who left her home a week ago as man charged with ‘murder’
THE body of a woman who went missing a week ago has been found by police.
Yajaira Castro Mendez, 46, from Ilford, east London, was found dead in the Bolderwood area of the New Forest in Hampshire, after she was reported missing on May 31.
A 51-year-old man, Juan Toledo, appeared at Barkingside Magistrates’ Court on Friday charge with her murder.
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Lottery results and numbers: Lotto and Thunderball draw tonight, June 7, 2025
THE NATIONAL Lottery results are in and it’s time to find out who has won a life-changing amount of money tonight (June 7, 2025).
Could tonight’s jackpot see you handing in your notice, jetting off to the Bahamas or driving a new Porsche off a garage forecourt?
You can find out by checking your ticket against tonight’s numbers below. Good luck!
Tonight’s National Lottery Lotto winning numbers are: 11, 17, 27, 30, 39, 46 and the Bonus Ball is 56.
Tonight’s estimated jackpot is £3.9 million.
Tonight’s National Lottery Thunderball winning numbers are: 01, 05, 13, 17, 39 and the Thunderball is 08.
The first National Lottery draw was held on November 19 1994 when seven winners shared a jackpot of £5,874,778.
The largest amount ever to be won by a single ticket holder was £42million, won in 1996.
Gareth Bull, a 49-year-old builder, won £41million in November, 2020 and ended up knocking down his bungalow to make way for a luxury manor house with a pool.
TOP 5 BIGGEST LOTTERY WINS ACROSS THE WORLD
- £1.308 billion (Powerball) on January 13 2016 in the US, for which three winning tickets were sold, remains history’s biggest lottery prize
- £1.267 billion (Mega Million) a winner from South Carolina took their time to come forward to claim their prize in March 2019 not long before the April deadline
- £633.76 million (Powerball draw) from a winner from Wisconsin
- £625.76 million (Powerball) Mavis L. Wanczyk of Chicopee, Massachusetts claimed the jackpot in August 2017
- £575.53 million (Powerball) A lucky pair of winners scooped the jackpot in Iowa and New York in October 2018
Sue Davies, 64, bought a lottery ticket to celebrate ending five months of shielding during the pandemic — and won £500,000.
Sandra Devine, 36, accidentally won £300k – she intended to buy her usual £100 National Lottery Scratchcard, but came home with a much bigger prize.
The biggest jackpot ever to be up for grabs was £66million in January last year, which was won by two lucky ticket holders.
Another winner, Karl managed to bag £11million aged just 23 in 1996.
The odds of winning the lottery are estimated to be about one in 14million – BUT you’ve got to be in it to win it.
Teen, 19, dies after viral TikTok ‘dusting’ challenge went wrong leaving family ‘utterly devastated’
A TEEN, 19, has died after taking part in the viral TikTok “dusting” challenge that went wrong, leaving her family “utterly devastated”.
Renna O’Rourke, from Arizona, tragically passed on Sunday after being in an intensive care unit for a week.
Dusting involves young people inhaling aerosols like spray deodorant, paint thinner or keyboard cleaners.
Renna went into cardiac arrest before later being declared brain dead after using a cleaning product to take part in the deadly challenge.
The teen’s heartbroken dad Aaron O’Rouke described how his daughter dreamed of fame.
He told AZFamily: “She always said, ‘I’m gonna be famous, Dad. Just you watch. I’m gonna be famous’, and unfortunately this is not under the most optimal of circumstances.”
Aaron and his wife Dana shared their daughter’s tragic story to raise awareness of the social media challenge.
Dana said: “There’s no ID required. It’s odorless. It’s everything kids look for.
“They can afford it, they can get it, and it doesn’t show in mom and dad’s drug test.”
The mom explained how Renna and her boyfriend used an app delivery service to have the cleaning agent delivered to their door.
She told 12news: “[Renna] and her boyfriend had Door Dashed product to my house and I didn’t know. It’s keyboard cleaner. I didn’t know what they were doing with it.
“We want to make sure that we use our tragedy so that no other parent has to experience looking at their child on life support and a ventilator and not breathing on her own all because she huffed out of a can.”
Dr. Randy Weisman, from the HonorHealth Scottsdale Osborn Medical Center, explained how inhaling aerosols can make users feel drunk or euphoric for a few minutes.
But such use can result in liver failure, heart failure and lung disease among other irreversible issues – or death.
He told AZFamily: “This is extremely concerning.
“When they inhale these chemicals in the gas it will actually replace the oxygen within their lungs and within the rest of their body.”
Renna’s parents said that the only light to come from her passing is that her organs have gone on to save at least six other people.
Mom Dana said: “Through that we’re finding strength and purpose.
“She will be unbelievably missed, leaving the most aching hole in our lives, but if her life is to mean anything, we are going to do what we can to prevent somebody else’s child from being where ours is right now.
“She will be unbelievably missed, leaving the most aching hole in our lives, but if her life is to mean anything, we are going to do what we can to prevent somebody else’s child from being where ours is right now.”
A post on the GoFundMe set up for Renna read: “On Sunday, June 1st at 1:30pm, our wonderful daughter, after 4 days in the ICU, was pronounced brain dead.
“She was the light in every room she walked into, and the pain that her family and friends feel is simply immeasurable.
“We want to use the proceeds of this fundraiser to cover the extensive medical bills, burial costs, therapy costs, and to spread awareness about the dangers of Huffing/Dusting, the practice of inhaling keyboard cleaner or similar.”
