LOVE ISLAND WINNERS AMBER & GREG FIRST FOR CELEBRITYRITY NEWSNEWS ISSUE 1198 ● AUGUST 13 20192019 ● £2.20 WEEKLYWEEEEKKLLY ‘GREG IS MARRIAGE MATERIAL’ ‘IT’LL BE HARD BUT WE’LL MAKE IT WORK’ ‘IT’S WEIRD THAT MICHAEL AND JOANNA GOT BACK TOGETHER’ INSIDE HARRY’S AT HOME IN HOLLYWOOD WITH BIRTHDAY DENISE WELCH AND BILLIE & LINCOLN TOWNLEY DAUGHTER SURPRISE NELLY’S FOR LAVISH TEA MEGHAN PARTY! THE VERSION OF THIS EDITION WAS CURRENT AT THE TIME OF GOING TO PRESS – OTHER VERSIONS OF THIS ISSUE MAY BE DISTRIBUTED, THE CONTENTS OF WHICH MAY VARY FROM THE CONTENTS OF THIS MAGAZINE ‘I’D HAVE BEEN DEAD OR IN PRISON IF I HADN’T Export £2.60/€4.90 t Esp/ Por €3.80 t Italy €4.80 t Auz $7.99 inc GSTt CDN $7.99 t ROI €3.19 t NL €4.75 t FR €3.80 STOPPED DRINKING’ t Aus €6.10 t Malta €4.25 t Ger €5.30 ISSUE CONTENTS AUGUST NEWSANDINTERVIEWS Love Island winners AMBER GILL and GREG O’SHEA talk to OK! about their future plans Runners up MOLLY-MAE HAGUE and TOMMY FURY feel like the real winners OVIE SOKO and INDIA REYNOLDS take it slowly CURTIS PRITCHARD and MAURA HIGGINS are in it for the long haul THE DUCHESS OF SUSSEX celebrates her birthday after guest- editing the September issue of British Vogue A delivery driver with a criminal record gets within feet of PRINCE GEORGE RYAN THOMAS and LUCY MECKLENBURGH celebrate their engagement with a lavish boat party on the Thames GEORGE and AMAL CLOONEY’s night out DENISE WELCH and LINCOLN TOWNLEY open the doors of their Hollywood home to OK! LOVE MATTERS Who’s found Cupid? KYM MARSH’s OK! column Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’s UK premiere MELISSA ODABASH invites OK! into her chic THISWEEK’SCOVERSTARS London home as she talks about her 20-year career Strictly dancer DIANNE BUSWELL talks to OK! BRIT CROWD All the UK showbiz news KONNIE HUQ talks about life with her husband CHARLIE BROOKER and their sons HOLLYWOOD CONFIDENTIAL GIOVANNA FLETCHER on motherhood and keeping it real on social media The stars enjoy their summer holidays! Coronation Street actress RUXANDRA POROJNICU talks about her harrowing storyline Hollywood star ANNE HATHAWAY talks about pregnancy and modern dating ANNA FRIEL on her new TV drama EMILY ANDRE’s OK! column The Mummy Diaries star BILLIE FAIERS and her daughter NELLY enjoy a fun-filled tea party OK! ICONS Jane Fonda OK! PARTIES The week’s big events onging for Love Island On this side offh the pond, d we pop over to since the finale? You’re Melissa Odabash’s gorgeous west London FASHIONISTA in for a treat, as we home. The swimwear designer, who counts bring you interviews Beyoncé and Gwyneth Paltrow among her WHAT’S IN STORE Florals get a Western edge Lwith all the finalists, including celebrity clients, talks about her career, FASHION SPY Rosie’s stylish week this year’s winners Amber family life and meeting Barack Obama. STEAL THE STARS’ STYLE Gill and Greg O’Shea. Plus, Konnie Huq opens up about her BEAUTY EDIT Sun saviours Black Mirror When we catch up with the marriage to writer and creator BEAUTY BUZZ Healthy hair care loved-up duo, Amber tells Charlie Brooker. Of the hit TV series, she us: ‘We’ve only known each other a couple of says: ‘I feel like I co-write them,’ adding with weeks and it’s been amazing.’ a smile: ‘Behind every great man is an even LIFESTYLEANDCHAT Also in this issue we go inside the greater woman’ – we couldn’t agree more! Hollywood home of Loose Women star Happy birthday to the OK! HEALTH Juicing with the celebs Denise Welch and her artist husband Duchess of Sussex, who OK! TRAVEL Hollywood Lincoln Townley, whose paintings sell for up turned 38 on Sunday. Prince STARS What lies ahead this week to £1 million. The couple both got sober Harry made sure Meghan HOTSPOT No 38 The Park OK! RECIPES seven years ago and are candid about how was spoiled on her ROWAN ERLAM Isaac Carew their lives have improved since, with Lincoln special day, which they OK! ACTING EDITOR MARTINFREEMAN plays detective telling us he’d have been ‘dead or in prison’ celebrated at home ROWANERLAM OK! REVIEWS The hottest new releases if he hadn’t stopped drinking. with their son, Archie. rowanerlam VINTAGE OK! Helen Flanagan opens up VISITOURWEBSITEWWWOKCOUK /OKMAGAZINEUK @OK_MAGAZINE @OK_MAG BABY ANNABELL/ZAPF CREATION, CHILLI MEDIA, CHRIS JACKSON/GETTY IMAGES, INSTAGRAM, LORNA ROACH, SIMON PERRY, SHUTTERSTOCK LORNA ROACH, SIMON PERRY, CHILLI MEDIA, CHRIS JACKSON/GETTY IMAGES, INSTAGRAM, BABY ANNABELL/ZAPF CREATION, WWW.OK.CO.UK 3 CELEBRATINGTHEIRVICTORY ‘IWASALWAYSIN THEVILLAFOR LOVENOTMONEY’ THESURPRISEWINNERSOF‘LOVEISLAND’ AMBERGILLAND GREGO’SHEAOPENUPABOUTTHEIRTRUEFEELINGS he past week has been an absolute whirlwind for Congratulations, guys! What are you going to do for Love Island winners Amber Gill and Greg O’Shea. your first date outside the villa? With over three and a half million Instagram followers Amber: I’m going to take Greg on a sushi date. There are between them and fans asking for selfies wherever some nice sushi places in Newcastle. Tthey go, the couple are now officially reality TV royalty. Greg: I’ve never had sushi! Naturally OK! couldn’t wait to catch up with the pair, with Greg, 24, telling us: ‘It’s amazing. It still hasn’t really sunk in.’ Why do you think your relationship works? He adds of his blossoming relationship with Amber: ‘We’re Greg: We just get each other. The most attractive thing exclusive. We’re both quite loyal and really into each other.’ about Amber is that she’s so open and honest and she As we chat to the couple, it’s hard to believe they’ve only backs herself, and I love that about her. There are no been together for three weeks, as they finish one another’s guessing games. I can’t wait to show her off and see sentences and the chemistry sizzles between them. But then where the future could take us. again, it was their undeniable chemistry that made viewers fall so hard for them. ‘I feel like Greg’s marriage material. My Will you have a rule for how often you’ll see each mam definitely wants me other? to marry Greg,’ gushes Greg: I don’t think 21-year-old Amber of you should put rules their future together. on relationships. But A knight in shining I live in Dublin, which armour, Irish rugby has cheap flights player Greg entered the to Newcastle every villa two weeks before couple of hours, so the final and swept it’ll definitely be more Amber off her feet manageable than following her heartbreak people think. I wouldn’t at the hands of Michael even call it long Griffiths. Michael and Above: The shock distance. Amber appeared solid, moment the couple but split when Michael (below) won Love Island Do you think you will decided to couple up stay together? with Joanna Chimonides. Greg: Definitely. We’ve After Joanna was voted out of the onlyo known each other a couple of villa, Michael turned his affections weeksw and it’s been amazing. I want back to Amber, but she only had tot meet the rest of her family and eyes for Greg. ‘I would never go shows her off to my friends. There’s back to someone who hurt me justj so much exciting stuff we have the way that he did,’ she says. The in store now and we just can’t wait beauty therapist from Newcastle to do it. has opened up about speaking to the show’s psychologist during The winners of the last two series that ‘hard’ time, and reveals she of Love Island have split. How even considered quitting the ITV2 will you make sure that doesn’t show. ‘I’m glad that I stuck it out happen to you? because it’s made me stronger,’ Amber: We’re different people, to she says. ‘I’m glad I’ve shown girls start off with. It’s definitely going to you can be strong and make the be hard but we can make it work, right decision.’ you’ve just got to put the effort Here, Amber and Greg – who in. We never really wanted to rush received almost double the anything, so we’ll just continue that. amount of votes that runners- up Tommy Fury and Molly-Mae Are you prepared for the amount Hague did in the final – tell OK! of attention you’re getting? about how they’ll be making their Greg: We’ve had support from day long-distance romance work, one from ITV. They’ve helped us Amber’s relationship with her out and given us courses. There are ‘big brother’ Ovie and where she people available to support us, as stands with Michael... there were in the villa. 4 Newcastle-based Amber and Greg, who lives in Dublin, say it will be ‘hard’ but they can make their relationship work WWW.OK.CO.UK 5 WWhat do you think about Can you be friends with Michael, Amber? Michael saying he didn’t He’s apologised and I’ve forgiven him. We had expect you two to win? a good friendship at the beginning so I’d like AAmber: I don’t think any of us to still be friends with Michael. I don’t want any wwere expecting it! We were bad vibes with anybody that was in the villa. coupled up for such a short period of time and there were Will you go back to the careers you had a lot of strong couples that before entering the villa? were boyfriend and girlfriend Greg: I always planned to go back and play and in love, it was crazy.