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Former EDL leader Tommy Robinson has taken to Instagram to share his unexpected appreciation for Love Island with a selfie featuring him and Wes Nelson .

The pair posed together after they had met at Manchester Arena for the KSI vs Logan Paul fight .

Taking followers by surprise, Robinson wrote under the snap that the ITV show had "helped him through his prison sentence."

It was Robinson's first public appearance since he was jailed for 13 months after he filmed people involved in a criminal trial and broadcast the footage on social media.

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, wrote: “Lovely lad, watching Wes on Love Island helped me through my prison sentence. They was in Love Island for as long as I was away.

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He also told his followers not to give Wes a "hard time" for posing with him and said that the reality TV star had no idea who he was.

The 34-year-old previously moaned that he was "mentally tortured" during his time at Onley prison and told prison staff in a complaint form that they were "punishing him" for having no access to televison.

He had also said that he had been made a target during his time behind bars, of which most of it was "solitary confinement".

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Robinson could still face jail over an allegation that he committed contempt of court by filming people in a criminal trial and broadcasting footage on social media.

Judges rejected his lawyers' argument that there should not be a fresh hearing because he has already served the equivalent of a four-month sentence.

Tommy was one of 20,000 fans at the event in Manchester, the match has been dubbed as the 'biggest thing that's ever happened on YouTube'.