Love Island: All Stars’ Tom & Molly Chat Irish Heritage, Their New Home, & ‘Weird’ Dumpings

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Love Island: All Stars winners Molly Smith and Tom Clare have been chatting about their Irish ancestry.

During a fleeting visit to Ireland last week, they revealed that both of their maternal grandparents hail from Dundalk and Kilkenny.

Tom mentions it is his first time in Ireland, while Molly says she has been “in and out for work” on a few occasions.

The couple say they plan to return on a weekend trip “to see where their families are from”, while Tom enthuses how the Kilkenny landscape will be “alright for Instagram” after hearing of its beauty.

They also vowed to get a taste of the black stuff in a proper Irish pub before they left the following day.

Tom and Molly were in the capital to attend an event celebrating the new Virgin Media streaming app, Virgin Media Play, which will launch in September. The pair recently posted the exciting news that they have purchased their first home together, just six months after their victorious exit from the reality TV show.

The pair, who both previously appeared on the show in 2020 and 2023 respectively, posted a sweet video of themselves opening a bottle of champagne in their new garden, with Molly’s dog Nelly. The Instagram video was captioned: “Home is where the heart is. We have officially bought our first house; we couldn’t be happier.”

 

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The couple were bursting with excitement about their new home. Tom explains: “It needs obviously a lot of work doing but we have a lot of plans and want to put our own touch on it and make it our dream home”.

When it comes to decorating their new home the loved-up couple reveal that they have “similar ideas” and “agree on a lot of things” as Molly says, “I think it will be really fun, doing it together”. When asked if they plan on throwing a lot of parties in their new home, they confess that they are not really “party animals,” but will host a few events with close family and friends.

The couple have set up an Instagram account, (@mt_hideaway_) to showcase the renovation of their new home. Obviously, there is someone else who will no doubt benefit from this move, Molly’s beloved Pomeranian Nelly, who Tom describes as “a little diva.”

Molly says she “just wanted to give her the back garden she deserved”.

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Ever since their triumph in the first season of the Love Island: All Stars last February, the couple have gone from strength to strength.

Tom, who plays for Macclesfield FC, and Molly, who has her own fitness plan Move with Molly, say how their shared love of an active lifestyle helps them spend more time together.

Speaking with STELLAR, Molly highlights how the pair have “quite similar interests” and how they “go to the gym quite a lot and work out together a lot.”

She jokes that she was once hesitant to run next to her now boyfriend after he told her that “certain ways people run gives him the ick.” Tom agrees with his girlfriend saying, “But no, it does definitely help. You come to my games, and I get involved in your fitness plan and stuff.”

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It is no secret that many couples struggle when they are thrown back into the real world after they leave the villa.

Having both experienced this adjustment twice now, Tom says: “I think sometimes the public can push you in the way they want you to go with your relationship, but we just take it at our own pace.”

The pair also disclose how nerve-racking it is to gather around the famous Love Island fire pit. In fact, they say it felt “horrible” and “eerie”, with Tom adding it is a “weird place” and “like a dream”.

Although the couple both appeared on the reality show not once but twice, Tom remarks that “deep down we are very private people”.

We look forward to seeing some candid shots of the pair in front of Kilkenny Castle gracing Tom’s Insta page in the future.

Virgin Media Play launches on September 2. 

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