Love Island winner Toni breaks silence on plans to move to the UK as romance with Cach heats up

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LOVE Island winner Toni Laites has revealed that she has NO plans to return to the United States following her victory on the reality TV show.
The star collected the £50,000 prize alongside her partner Cach Mercer and she has re-affirmed her plans to settle down in the UK after jetting straight to London from the Majorcan villa.
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Love Island winner Toni Laites has revealed her plans to move to the UK
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The couple won the hit TV show after becoming the fan-favourites
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The couple are still going strong
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Las Vegas-based Toni had been working as a pool waitress in the exclusive Vegas day-party scene but it now appears she is turning her back on life in the States for life in London.
Speaking to The Sun and other press at the launch of ITV's newest reality strand, Toni admitted that she was fully concentrating on the UK.
The 25-year-old told The Sun: "I am here [London] for god-knows how long at this point.
"I feel like I'm definitely gonna have to find somewhere to live.
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"America is not for me at this point."
When asked if she felt like she'd been adopted by the UK as an honorary Brit, Toni smiled as she said: "Yes, I think so!"
Toni and Cach clinched the title of Love Island winners last week and have been riding the wave ever since.
News of Toni's decision to remain in the UK comes after we revealed she was set to be approached by ITV execs in starring in her own series following her returning to Las Vegas to re-visit her pre-villa life.
It is likely that the series would now take the format of showing her Love Island besties Shakira Khan and Yasmin Pettit what she used to get up too in Las Vegas having decided not to leave the UK.
An insider told The Sun: 'It's super early days as she's only just left the villa but there's talk of Toni being lined up for a spin off based around her life in Vegas as a cabana girl.
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"Shakira and Yas (and Cach!) would feature and her mum would also make appearances.
"Love Island fans have been loving Leslie on the show and on TikTok!
"ITV bosses love the energy that Toni brings to the table and her one-liners. She's got a bright future ahead of her on TV.
"She'll go into talks about future plans this week.'
Toni made history with her Love Island win as she became the first ever US star to win the UK version of the contest.
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Las Vegas waitress Toni Laites and professional dancer Cach Mercer went head-to-head with OG islanders Shakira Khan and Harry Cooksley in a nail-biting finale.
However, Toni and Cach were triumphant and won the summer series after surviving a love triangle just two weeks before the final.
A results table shared on Love Island's Instagram account this afternoon showed Toni and Cach were the runaway winners on the night, taking over a third of the votes, with 33.5% of viewers backing them for the crown.
However, Shakira and Harry drew a sizeable 26.2% of the votes, and Yas and Jamie were not far behind taking 22% on the nose.
Aesthetics practitioner Angel, 26, only made her debut on July 17, but managed to secure an impressive 18.3% of the overall voting audience with Casa Amor boy Ty.
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Toni and Cach's romance appears to be heating up
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