Love Island’s Gabby McCarthy hard launches new girlfriend

In the wake of her season 7 appearance on Love Island Australia, Gabby McCarthy has grown a substantial fanbase on social media with photos highlighting her natural voluptuousness and Gold Coast lifestyle. Now, the 22-year-old is attracting attention for a different reason: coupling up with fellow reality star Demi Sims.

Earlier this month, McCarthy posted a TikTok video of her and The Only Way Is Essex star cuddling up and exchanging pecks over a dimly lit meal. The caption on the video, which has nearly 40,000 likes, is “My overseas bae” — while text overlapping the new couple reads, “Life ever since I took ‘I don’t need no man’ literally.”

While McCarthy is a resident of Queensland, Sims, a 29-year-old boxer and OnlyFans creator, resides in the UK county that made her famous. But it seems the new international, reality-famous couple had an extended stint together, with McCarthy posting photos of the two enjoying the beach a few days later on Instagram.

Sims, who also starred in the series House of Sims, has previously been linked to reality stars from Made in Chelsea, Too Hot to Handle, Love Island, and Ex on the Beach. Meanwhile, McCarthy is relatively new to the public eye and therefore mostly associated with her onscreen flirtations with Jotham Russell and Dylan Towolawi on Love Island Australia, where she lasted 22 days.

Fans are celebrating McCarthy’s news, commenting congratulatory messages on a follow-up TikTok video where the influencer added sapphic implications to her viral “clout” speech on the show. Referring to the line where McCarthy says she doesn’t need a man for clout, many users wrote that the busty brunette was, indeed, right all along — adding memes of amused celebrities to punctuate the point.

McCarthy follows in a beloved line of reality stars who have flaunted lesbian relationships after initially dating men on TV — of course, our favorite being the endlessly quotable Gabby Windey, who married comedian Robby Hoffman after rising to fame on The Bachelor.