Why Love Island fans are split over Nat, Jack and Sammi
Nat says she was blindsided, Sammi isn’t backing off, and one Mamamia writer says the triangle has gone too far
Love Island Australia's messiest triangle finally tipped over. On episode 12, Jack and Sammi snuck off for a chat, admitted their partners Natalie and Lachie made things feel "too serious", and kissed, Nine.com.au reports. Jack said it "takes my breath away".
It matters because Nat and Jack were meant to be the villa's safe bet: both from the Gold Coast, paired up from night one and calling themselves "Mum and Dad", as Mamamia's Lucy Ballenden recaps. If you missed the build-up, we covered how Jared's arrival rattled the pair.
So who's really in the wrong?
Lachie took the news on the chin, according to Nine.com.au. Nat did not. She said she was "blindsided", then confronted Sammi and told her she just wanted her to "leave him alone".
Sammi didn't budge.
"If it's strong with me in the end then it is, and if it's not, then it's not." Sammi, via Nine.com.au
Nine's own recap isn't buying the shock, pointing out the Sammi-and-Jack saga had been the villa's main topic of conversation for days. Earlier, Primetimer reports, Nat told Jack: "I am not feeling good to be honest. Because it's just the things I am hearing when I am not here."
Plenty of viewers online have cast Nat as the villain for what she whispered to Jack about Sammi, including calling her "like white pepper", as Mamamia quotes it. Ballenden isn't one of them. In a column headlined "I feel sick to my stomach about what's happening on Love Island right now", she writes that Nat is "just a 23-year-old girl who wants to be chosen", and that Jack is "hardly blameless, but he's no villain either".
Make this callOpen in the Litty appBallenden's verdict on the pair is blunt: "It's been two weeks, people! Nothing is worth this pain!"
Picture: Mamamia
By Litty Newsroom
