Did Olivia and Chris know each other BEFORE Love Island?

Hmmmm…. do we smell a rat?

Did Love Island’s Olivia Attwood and Chris Hughes know each other before they met on the show?

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Well, fans of the couple are now convinced that they may have known each other from before.

The evidence?

This week Chris and Liv posed for a picture with an old footballer pal of Chris’s called George Ray.

Olivia and Chris poised of picture with Chris’s friend George (Credit: Instagram)

He captioned the picture: “So good to catch up with my lifelongs, been way too long!”

“Miss you both #powerfulpeople ”

“Lifelongs”?

Well, yes. If you spool back through George’s Instagram timeline you will discover that he actually already knew Olivia!

In January 2016, he posted a picture of him, Olivia and a female pal on a night out in Manchester.

Here’s Olivia pictured with George back in January 2016 (Credit: Instagram)

Further back in 2015, George posted a picture of Olivia in a barely there bikini on holiday.

George posted this pic of Olivia in 2015 (Credit: Instagram)

One eagle eyed fan who noticed these pictures even posted on the picture: “So did @ChrisHughesOfficial already know @Oliviajade_Attwood before Love Island?”

Since coming out of the villa, Chris and Olivia have had a bumpy relationship.

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The pair fell out when she kissed a footballer ex and then recently had massive barney at a night club in Birmingham, during which Olivia was reportedly dragged out the venue by security.

But aside from all that, they are still love’s young dream. Yay!