'Love Island' winners Millie Court and Liam Reardon are happy to be dubbed the real life 'Gavin and Stacey'.
Liam and Millie
The couple - who walked out of the villa with the £50,000 prize - have been compared to the two comedy characters because Millie lives in Essex and Liam lives in Wales just like Gavin Shipman and Stacey West at the beginning of the show, and they both insist if Mathew Horne and Joanna Page's alter egos could make a long-distance romance work then so can they.
In a joint interview on 'This Morning', Millie said, “Well if Gavin and Stacey can make it work then we can make it work!
"My mum googled it and she said it was like three-and-a-half hours and I don’t mind doing that drive just as long as we always have a plan to seeing each other and make sure that we have that because we don't want to get so busy that we are not making time for each other.
"The next step is that Liam has got to go back to Wales and I’ll definitely spend some time in Wales very soon and he’s going to come to Essex ... we will one hundred percent make this work!”
When asked if their parents have given this the seal of approval, Liam smiled, “Definitely. My parents were on facetime last night and they are very close already so that’s amazing to have. The approval is already there. So we can concentrate on me and Millie now.
"I was nervous meeting them, but they were amazing … her mother, sister, father, they are all amazing.”
The pair are currently apart and living with their parents due to UK COVID-19 quarantine rules and the pair are very much pining for each other after spending almost every day with one another in the Majorca sun.
Speaking from Essex, Millie said: "I’m really missing him. I regret saying I’d go home, I wish I was with him.
“It feels very surreal … but it doesn't feel real because we’re still in quarantine, but I think the moment we’re actually allowed to go outside and experience the real world it will probably hit me way more. But at the moment I’m just trying to rest and get some meetings in ... but it's very surreal.
“I came there for love and that’s what I got … I’m really missing him. I knew what we had was real."
Echoing her sentiments, Liam added: "It’s been overwhelming and so far we’ve done every step together so being a part now is difficult. I’m looking forward to the quarantine being over so we can be back together again."
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