Love Island’s Samie Elishi Is Pregnant: She’s Having a Baby With Tyrique Hyde After a Love Story Nobody Saw Coming
Love Island’s Samie Elishi Is Pregnant: She’s Having a Baby With Tyrique Hyde After a Love Story Nobody Saw Coming
Love Island has produced its fair share of surprise couples, but few have moved at the speed of Samie Elishi and Tyrique Hyde. Just seven months after they went public with their relationship, the reality TV pair have dropped their biggest bombshell yet: they are going to be parents.
The couple, 26 and 27, shared the happy news on Instagram on Monday morning, and within hours their co-stars were flooding the post with congratulations. Here is everything we know about the announcement, and the love story that got them here.
The Instagram announcement that broke the internet
Samie and Tyrique did not do this with a press release or a magazine cover. Instead, they went straight to the fans with a heartwarming home-video style montage. The clip shows the pair heading in for an ultrasound scan at the Portland Hospital in London, with Samie grinning as she looks at the screen and Tyrique beaming while holding the scan pictures in his hands.
The video also includes glimpses of baby scans and positive pregnancy tests, all set to Jodeci’s track Forever My Lady. Samie kept the caption simple, just a single white heart emoji, and turned off the comments on the post. That did not stop the love pouring in elsewhere, with the clip racking up likes from fellow Love Island alumni including Tasha Ghouri and Chris Hughes.
Tyrique reposted the announcement to his own page with a message that fans will probably find hard to argue with: “DON’T MAKE A SCENE. CAN’T WAIT FOR THIS NEXT CHAPTER… LOVE YOU @samieelishi.”
The congratulations rolled in from across the Love Island family. Olivia Attwood wrote “Congratulations cherubs!!!!” while Jess Harding joked “Ahhhhh mum & dad can’t even cope” and Sammy Root went all caps with “CONGRATULATIONS BOTH OF YOU!!!!!!” Kelsey Parker sent an emotional message saying Samie is going to be the best mum ever, and Stacey Solomon added her own “Congratulations darling.”
According to OK! Magazine, the couple have also recently moved in together, so this really is a brand new chapter for both of them. What the pair have not shared yet is how far along Samie is, or whether they are having a boy or a girl. Given that they kept the relationship quiet for so long before hard-launching it, it would not be a surprise if they keep a few more secrets up their sleeves.
From All Stars winners to each other’s arms
To understand why this news hit so hard, you have to rewind to January. That is when Samie won Love Island: All Stars series three alongside Ciaran Davies. They were the villa’s golden couple, the pair everyone assumed would last, with a storyline so smooth it barely had a single drama. Then reality set in. Around three weeks after leaving the villa, they split.
Enter Tyrique Hyde. While Samie was coupled up with Ciaran in the All Stars villa, Tyrique was watching from home and, as he later admitted, making his feelings pretty clear. Throughout the series he was reacting to the show via his livestream, and he did not hide the fact that he fancied Samie. When Samie broke things off with Ciaran, Ciaran went on to claim there may have been an overlap between the two men dating Samie, which dragged the new romance into controversy from day one.
Tyrique shut that down on Joe Baggs’ Not My Baggs podcast, insisting: “I can confirm, we were not speaking whatsoever before the villa at all.”
What makes their story even better is that this was not really a fresh meeting. The pair have actually known each other for nearly six years. Tyrique explained that they first crossed paths at a Boohoo launch event when his friend Toby Aromolaran came out of Love Island. He made his move that night and asked for Samie’s number. Her answer was a classic: not the number, but he could have her Instagram instead.
He slid into her DMs, she was not convinced, and they stopped talking. That could have been the end of it, but years later Tyrique heard the murmurs that Samie’s relationship with Ciaran was on the rocks just days after the All Stars final. This time, he decided not to hesitate. “I’m gonna shoot my shot,” he said, and sent flowers to her house.
It worked. The couple hard-launched their relationship on social media back in April, and they have been inseparable ever since.
Why the doubters never stood a chance
Plenty of fans were sceptical at first. A relationship born out of a messy All Stars breakup, with cheating rumours swirling before it even began, does not exactly scream stability. And yet here we are. Less than a year later, Samie and Tyrique are expecting their first child together, and they look happier than ever.
It helps that both of them know the Love Island machine from the inside. Samie first appeared on the winter 2023 series, reaching the final with Tom Clare, while Tyrique appeared on the summer 2023 series, coupled up with Ella Thomas. They both know exactly what it is like to live a relationship under a camera lens and in front of millions of viewers, which might be why this one has felt so real from the start.
One of the wildest arcs in Love Island history
Think about how far this story has travelled in a single year. In January, Samie was lifting the All Stars trophy with Ciaran Davies as the villa’s untouchable golden couple. By February, she had broken things off with him and found herself at the centre of an overlap row she never asked for. By April, she and Tyrique were hard-launching a relationship the internet had already decided would never last. And now, before the year is even out, they are announcing a baby.
It is the kind of turnaround that explains why the congratulations felt so warm. When people like Olivia Attwood, Stacey Solomon and Tasha Ghouri all rush to comment, it tells you this couple is genuinely liked inside the Love Island family, not just by fans on the outside. The same co-stars who watched the messy start unfold are now celebrating the happy ending, and that says a lot about how Samie and Tyrique handled the scrutiny.
Love Island relationships are famously fragile once the cameras stop rolling. Most couples from the show do not make it past the first few months back in the real world. The fact that Samie and Tyrique went from a controversial beginning to moving in together and starting a family in under a year puts them in a very small club, and fans are clearly rooting for them.
What happens next for the soon-to-be parents
For now, the couple are enjoying their moment. No due date has been revealed, no nursery tour has been posted, and the gender of the baby remains a mystery. What is clear is that Samie and Tyrique are all in on this next chapter, and their famous friends could not be happier for them.
From a controversial start to a baby announcement in under a year, this has been one of Love Island’s wildest love stories. Congratulations to Samie and Tyrique.
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Sources: Tyla, OK! Magazine
