Tasha Ghouri reveals brutal truth behind Andrew Le Page split 5 months later

Tasha Ghouri has finally spoken about her split with Andrew Le Page, months after the Love Island couple confirmed they have parted ways.

The couple shockingly ended things at the start of this year, just weeks after the 26-year-old Ghouri competed on Strictly Come Dancing with pro-partner Aljaž Škorjanec.

The former couple met on the ITV reality series in 2022 and hit several relationship milestones together, including sharing a dog, purchasing a home and even discussing plans to marry as they looked towards the future together.

After shocking fans with their split news in January, Ghouri has now spoken about where their relationship is during an appearance on the BBC podcast How To Be In Love.

Speaking about the break-up with Rylan Clarke, Ghouri spoke about how Le Page was ‘the first boy she fell in love with’. 

‘I learnt so much from him. He taught me so much about love and I will take that with me,’ she said. 

‘Strictly happened and that made us grow apart even more when it should have brought us closer, because it is such an intense 13 weeks,’ she continued. ‘It’s a bubble.’

She claimed Le Page was struggling with what direction he wanted his career to go in, while she was living her dream of competing in Strictly.

‘On social media, it did come across that he was supporting me, but emotionally at home, he wasn’t,’ she claimed. ‘I remember this one time I was in the dance off in the semi-finals. I called him and said I feel really nervous. He was just sat there gaming.’

Ghouri identified that as the moment she knew it was likely over, saying: ‘That’s where I started to think I deserve better than that. Why am I settling for something I’m having to really beg for?’

Speaking about the end of what was nearly a three-year relationship, she said her biggest regret was how she ended things, saying she ‘should have been nicer’.

She continued: ‘It’s weird, I feel like we never had that closing chapter. You know when you have that last chat and you have that closure? We didn’t have that. And I feel like that’s still kind of lingering.’

Ghouri shared her hopes they have ‘that closure chat’ in the future, adding: ‘He was also my best friend at the time. He was my everything so I really hope one day when things are settled and we have time to grieve we have time to look back on stuff.’

She concluded: ‘I really do hope one day we can get back in touch and find that civilness that we had before.’

At the time of their break-up, Le Page told fans it had been a ‘pretty crap start to the year’ and that it was the ‘end of an era’. He also said he had ‘cried more times this year than his whole life’.

At the time Ghouri had said she was not going to talk about the split publicly because it was a private matter, but she then opened up about the split in her 2025 memoir Your Superpower. 

‘I knew deep down it wasn’t right,’ she wrote. ‘There were a lot of tears and it was a really hard time. Andrew was the man I was going to marry. We had discussed having children.’

A source told The Sun in January that the pair reportedly grew distant during Tasha’s time in the Strictly ballroom.

‘Tasha was madly in love with Andrew but the cracks started to show when she appeared on Strictly,’ the insider said.

‘She gave her all in that competition. Her focus was purely on her dances with Aljaž and that drove a wedge between them as time went by.’

Love Island continues on ITV2 and on ITVX.

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