Love Island’s ultimate villa besties Helena Ford and Tommy Bradley – OGs on both Love Island 2025 and All Stars 2026 – have sent fans (okay, mainly heat Towers) into a full-on spiral after teasing a potential new career move together. And if this is even remotely an option, consider us sat and listening.
Helena sparked the chaos during an Instagram Q&A earlier this week when one follower asked, ‘Would you ever set up a podcast with Tommy? It would be iconic.’
Helena didn’t even try to play it cool, replying, ‘@tommybradley what you saying? Shall we give the fans what they want?’
Erm. Yes. Immediately.
The pair first became firm friends in the Love Island 2025 villa, before reuniting on All Stars 2026 earlier this year. Their tight bond became a major talking point again – Tommy often said Helena was like an older sister to him, while Helena admitted she felt protective of him.
Neither of them has officially confirmed a podcast is actually happening, but Helena’s cheeky little call-out has definitely convinced us (and her followers) she’d be more than up for it.
The timing is particularly interesting given Helena’s recent headlines surrounding her tense clash with bombshell Jessy Potts during All Stars 2026. As viewers will remember, Helena found herself in a little bit of agg towards the end of the series when Jessy entered the villa and made a beeline for Tommy.
The former flight attendant questioned Jessy’s motives and even claimed she was in it for ‘airtime’ in a brutal post-dumping interview with host Maya Jama – comments that left Jessy in tears.
The pair later came face-to-face again at the live final in yet another awks confrontation. So when Helena popped into heat Towers last week, we had to get the lowdown on where things stand now between her and her bestie’s Love Island bae.
Helena exclusively told us, ‘When we came out [of the All Stars 2026 villa], we were put in a [holding] villa together so we couldn’t really avoid each other. We couldn’t avoid each other in the actual villa, but it gave us the chance to speak about it.
She continued, ‘We’ve spoken about it and we’ve squashed it. I said I’m not taking back what I said, I’m still standing on what I said but I didn’t mean to upset her like that because it upset me when I saw her crying so much.’
Explaining why she felt the need to speak out about Jessy, Helena added, ‘For me, the whole Tommy thing wasn’t that personal against Jessy. I was just being protective in general, I wanted the best for that boy. From my perspective, she just looked like she was going in on smoke to Lucinda [Strafford] and the whole airtime thing, that’s where that comment came from.
‘She’s spoken to me about her and Lucinda being friends on the outside beforehand and them falling out and things like that, so now I’m like okay, I understand it a little bit more.
‘I don’t agree with a lot of the delivery from Jessy to Lucinda, but I can understand why she came in with a problem if they weren’t friends anyway.’
Podcast tea, villa drama and bestie loyalty? If Helena and Tommy do hit record, we’ll be tuning in. We imagine Miss Potts might be, too…
The news come just days after another pair of All Stars faves announced the launch of their own podcast; set to launch on Tuesday 3 March 2026, Nearlyweds, starring All Stars 2024 winners Molly Smith and Tom Clare, promises fans an intimate glimpse into their post-villa lives and pre-wedding planning.
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Ben Pulsfordis a digital writer and producer at Bauer Media, creating content for Closer online and easynewcastleescorts.co.uk. Beyond his journalism, he is a presenter, singer and podcaster, co-hosting theSpill the Fizz podcast with Traitors series 2 star Diane Carson.
