Made in Chelsea’s Sam Vanderpump is no stranger to a bit of reality TV drama, having previously been involved in major rows with co-stars Tristan Phipps and Reza Amiri-Garrousi, but we certainly didn’t expect his next feud to be with a Love Island legend.
ICYMI, Sam recently appeared on the third series of his aunt Lisa Vanderpump’s show Vanderpump Villa alongside his wife Alice and fellow MIC stars Tina Stinnes, Sophie Hermann, Ollie Locke and his husband Gareth. The SW3 lot happened to be staying at the villa at the same time as series eight Islander Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and her pals – and, of course, you can’t put this many reality stars in a villa at the same time and not expect it to kick off in some way.
Ekin-Su and her All Stars 2025 co-star Tina found themselves competing for the affections of the same man when they both took a liking to one of the workers in the villa, which led to an almighty row when Sam confronted the Love Island 2022 winner.
Sam called out Ekin-Su on Vanderpump Villa ©Channel 4
In one scene, Sam can be seen approaching Ekin and her friends as he tells them, ‘I think maybe you girls should just stay around the pool or go to your rooms, not stay around us and just keep to yourselves because you’ve been quite nasty.’
Ekin-Su fires back, ‘I’ll do what I want so don’t talk to me like that. I don’t know why you’re making a problem out of nothing. It’s nothing to do with you.’
Sam sarcastically tells her, ‘You’re a lovely person,’ before adding, ‘Maybe just try to be nicer rather than blaming shows for editing you badly.
‘ Maybe you just would think and look at yourself and think about how you act and try to be a nicer person and then you won’t come across as a bad person. Just nasty behaviour.’
Obsessed with him breaking the fourth wall, tbh.
Ekin ©ITV Pictures
Vanderpump Villa isn’t the only show Ekin-Su has been causing controversy on as she was recently called out for comments she made about co-star Juliette Porter on the Unwell Winter Games.
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Nathan Katnoria is heat and Closer online’s Senior Digital Writer. He writes about all the latest and greatest reality TV, including Love Island, Made in Chelsea, Geordie Shore, Big Brother and Love is Blind UK and has interviewed everyone from Charlotte Crosby to Chloe Brockett and Miles Nazaire to Megan Barton-Hanson.
