Love Island winner Jess Hayes reveals why she's banned sex – and hits out at ex who ‘targeted her' for £25k

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Jess says she was 'naive' when she won the ITV2 show
NO NOOKIE Love Island winner Jess Hayes reveals why she's banned sex – and hits out at ex who 'targeted her' for £25k
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LOVE Island winner Jess Hayes has lifted the lid on why she has decided to ban sex from her life.
Jess, 32, won the first series of Love Island but, a decade on, is now proud to be celibate.
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Love Island winner Jess Hayes has revealed why she has given up sex
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The star won the first series of Love Island in 2015
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The single mum-of-two revealed last month she has given up sex for good and now she has revealed the reason behind her choice.
Speaking to Mail Online, Jess believes sex is a "pointless activity" if a person is not in a loving relationship.
And despite giving the impression on Love Island that she was "sex-obsessed", Jess said this couldn't be further from the truth.
"I'm just not interested unless I really connect with a guy," she explained to the publication.
Jess added: "I'm not having any, and I don't miss it. I don't want it. It could be years before I have it again, who knows.
"I'm not into one-night stands and, believe it or not, I never have been."
Jess won the first ever series of Love Island alongside Max Morley in 2015.
She worked in a bank at the time and chose to share the £50,000 prize money with Max.
The couple appeared smitten and had quickly won over the hearts of the nation.
But just six weeks after their triumph, the winners dramatically split when Max was caught spending the night with Geordie Shore star Charlotte Crosby.
I won the first ever Love Island but the fall out from my instant fame was so brutal I've given up sex for good, says Jessica Hayes
Looking back, Jess has now accused professional cricket player Max of deliberately "targeting" her.
Max had entered the villa as a late bombshell and Jess believes it gave him time to clock how popular she was with viewers.
Telling the Mail she is "annoyed" they split the money, Jess added: "So, I do feel he targeted me but, as I say, I was young and naive."
Jess was just 22 when she won Love Island and afterwards she threw herself into a lifestyle of wild partying.
But three years later, she "hit rock bottom".
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Jess struggled with her new-found fame and began questioning the direction her life was going in.
Speaking to The Sun On Sunday last month, Jess said: 'I remember feeling very lost and thinking, what now?
"You go out a lot and party a lot and sometimes it can be to excess and that's not good for you.
"You come out of a show and you're a celebrity and no one says, 'This might only last five minutes'.
'I didn't have good guidance or good management and that didn't help me take the right path.
'There were points where I thought, what the hell am I doing?"
Jess is now a devoted mum of two children, five-year-old son Presley and daughter Zendaya Rose, one.
The relationships with both of her kids' dads broke down and she is now a single mum.
However, Jess said: 'I couldn't ask for more from my children's dads.
'They are in their lives and they are good with them."
She added: 'I'm not materialistic at all now and I think that having children, your priorities change.
'And if my daughter tells me she wants to apply for Love Island in 20 years time I will tell her, 'No way — not unless I'm your manager'.'
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Jess won Love Island alongside Max Morley
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She has accused Max of targeting her on the show
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