Connor Durman’s ex-girlfriend has made some bold claims (Picture: ITV2)

Love Island contestant Connor Durman allegedly sent a series of racist messages to an ex-girlfriend before he entered the villa.

The 25-year-old who was coupled up with Sophie Piper before being dumped from the show reportedly sent WhatsApp messages to ex Stevie-Leigh Pich after she told him she had slept with someone else after the couple had broken up.

The text messages allegedly show Connor calling Stevie a ‘s**g’ and a ‘s**t’ for sleeping with black men branding it ‘rank’ and ‘grim’.

A friend of Stevie’s claimed: ‘It’s disgusting that he can send messages like that given who he’s paired up with on the show.




‘He kept telling Stevie that it made him sick that she’d seen the guy and was really nasty.’

‘I hope Sophie will think twice when she finds out what he’s been saying. It’s vile language to use,’ they continued to The Sun.

Stevie was in a relationship for more than three years with Connor and they lived together in Sydney, Australia together.

Connor Durman’s ex-girlfriend Stevie-Leigh Pich says they were together for over three years (Picture: Stevie-Leigh Pich/Instagram)

Another text allegedly discussed last year’s contestant Ovie Soko, which led the coffee bean salesman to tell Stevie that ‘liking black boys’ was ‘such a put off’.

He also went on to call his ex-girlfriend offensive names as one text read: ‘Go bang so[me] black boy’.

On Monday’s Love Island, Connor from Brighton revealed he would wait for Sophie outside the villa.

Sophie was picked to stay over Connor in the latest dumping (Picture: ITV)

‘I will wait for her. I’m in no rush to meet someone else,’ he said following his exit.

‘We definitely had that instant chemistry when we first met. I did have butterflies, she made me a bit nervous and that was a good nervous, obviously I really liked her. I haven’t had that for ages.’

Connor also said that he predicted that he would be sent home because his fellow Islanders knew he wouldn’t have fallen for anyone else on the show – which was exactly the reasons he was given.

And if Sophie – sister to This Morning’s Rochelle Humes – did happen to move on, Connor said he wouldn’t hold a grudge.

ITV and Connor Durman’s rep have been approached for a comment.

Love Island airs weeknights at 9pm on ITV2.

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