Love Island star reveals she's back with ex AGAIN as fans beg her to get over him
The pair
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A Love Islanf star has revealed she's reunited with her on-off lover
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Anna Vakili told her podcast listeners 'Cowslick is back'
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The pair split in March
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At the time, Anna told how he had 'hurt' her
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, 35, shot to fame after appearing on the
show
in 2019 - but she failed to find love in the villa.
Yet her path to true love in the real world and
Just weeks after calling time on their love - due to his reluctance to propose - it seems things are back on.
It comes despite the fact she admitted he had "hurt" her and a "more relaxed" girl would suit him better.
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In a teaser for the next episode of her podcast Sisters In The City with sister Mandi Vakili, aired on TikTok, Mandi teased "the tea" Anna had dropped.
Anna then said: "Cowslick is back," seemingly confirming their romance.
Mandi admitted: "A lot of madness has happened and the tea has been spilled."
Yet fans appeared less than impressed about the reunion.
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One took to the comments section to post: "I don't wanna hear about it respectfully."
One fan urged her to get over him as another put: "Ffs the way she says it with a big smile."
Love Island star SPLITS from boyfriend just months after getting back together
A third confessed: "I screamed nooo when i was listening to the ep
again."
One bluntly put: "If this is true, embarrassing."
Another mused: "She will never learn."
BREAK UP NEWS
In March, Anna told the same podcast of her split with Cowslick.
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'Yeah basically me and Cowslick have broken up,' Anna said at the time, causing her sister to burst out laughing.
'Why you laughing?' Anna questionned, and her sister responded: 'It's like an announcement. I feel like there's a press conference.'
Anna said it felt like 'deja-vu,' and said she felt 'so sad that it'd come to this.'
Anna got candid on the podcast and said she wouldn't sit there and slate her ex Cowslick, but confessed he had 'hurt her.'
'I don't think he's a bad person, I just don't think I'm the right girl for him,' she added.
Continuing: 'A girl that is more easygoing would suit him.'
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Anna recently posted a photo in a hospital gown, and revealed she'd completed her first round of egg freezing.
The star told fans: 'My only regret is that I didn't do this sooner! I was never really that maternal so I went along life not thinking about it.
'Only in the last year it really hit me that I should consider taking some measures to ease some of the pressure that so many women go through when it comes to our fertility clock.'
Anna has also opened up on her relationship on the Not My Bagg podcast, while chatting to host Joe Baggs.
She said her partner had refused to propose, despite her wanting him to, and explained: 'Some people expect an engagement in about a year or two.
'I left mine because of that. That's the reason why we broke up, it actually went viral on TikTok.
"I said 'I'm ready now, what's going on?' I actually mentioned it a year ago as well. I'm not going to wait that long, it's been three and a half years."
She reinforced her view when she revealed she had dropped out of the last series of All Stars Love Island at the last minute.
She explained that even though she went through the whole process to appear on the ITV2 show - including multiple meetings and STD and drug testing - it wasn't for her again.
Looking for serious love, she told fans that she decided against it saying "the kind of man I want to settle down with wouldn't really want a woman that's going on Love Island."
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She told how the pair had had differences of opinion about when he should propose
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She recently began freezing her eggs
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Anna was in talks to star on spin-off All Stars
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