LOVE Island’s Joey Essex has kept his promise and taken Jessy Potts to his favourite restaurant for their first date.
The Towie legend told The Sun in his first interview outside of the villa: “Sheesh is already in the diary!”
Jessy posed for a photo with Joey, 33, on Instagram tonight and revealed they’d finally dined at the celeb hotspot in Chigwell.
The couple are now exclusively dating and planning a romantic getaway to the Maldives.
Meanwhile, Joey revealed today that Jessy stayed over at his in Essex for the first time.
He said during an interview on ITV’s This Morning: “She’s already been to my house, left at 9am!”
And he told The Sun this week: “We’re really happy. I can’t wait for us to just meet my friends, my family.
“Times ahead are looking really exciting.”
When Joey’s sister Frankie and his grandma Linda visited the Love Island villa as part of the show’s family day, both reported how struck they were by the couple’s connection.
But they never made it to the final – as bosses announced a huge twist that saw Joey cornered.
In his first interview since leaving the show he told The Sun he felt that he was a “producer plant” as the first celebrity bombshell to enter the villa.
He did everything he could to entertain, using his vast reality TV experience to stir drama which saw some viewers brand him “a bully”.
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So when he was dumped with a crowd of Islanders hurling grievances at him in a biblical style punishment, he admitted he felt betrayed.
It was a “what the hell?” moment for the TV king.
He said: “If you want to talk about bullying – in that moment, the finger pointing at me, it not being about compatibility at all, it was all personal, all towards Joey, and sit there and take that.
“You know, if there’s one bit of advice I could give producers is never put a rookie, a young Islander or anyone, in the position that I was in when I got dumped on Love Island, because it could have been a different story.
“You’ve got to remember, I’m a human. I’ve got feelings. I’ve got heart.
“That was very savage. And it was very, very difficult to take. It hurt a lot.”
