Love Island’s Harriet Blackmore joins Samantha Kenny for a night out

Harriet Blackmore joined her co-star Samantha Kenny for a night out in London on Saturday night. 

The Love Island contestants wowed in all-black ensembles for an evening at Armenian restaurant Lusin in Mayfair. 

Harriet, 24, who was dumped from the ITV2 reality TV show last weekend, opted for a lace two-piece set, consisting of a one-shouldered crop top and matching skirt. 

She teamed her outfit with a pair of gold peep toe heels and carried a small black clutch bag. 

Samantha, 26, wore a strapless mini dress that she teamed with it glitzy, metallic shoulder bag and strappy heels. 

Love Island viewers were left in shock last Friday when they saw Harriett and Ronnie Vint get dumped from the villa after receiving the fewest votes from the public. 

During the instalment of the ITV2 reality TV show, the islanders received a surprise text message asking them all to gather around the fire pit and three couples were told to stand as they received a low amount of votes. 

The three couples included were Grace Jackson, 25, and Konnor Ewudzi, 28, Uma Jammeh, 23, and Wil Anderson, 23, and Harriett Blackmore, 24, and Ronnie Vint, 27. 

Jess White, 25, then received a text which stated Harriett and Ronnie were both dumped from the villa and had to pack their things. 

It comes after Harriett hit back at claims she ‘defended’ a Premier League football player after he was accused of allegedly ‘attacking a group of women.’

A resurfaced video of Harriett shows her telling an unnamed female ‘He’s a Premier League football player, please leave him alone’, with one social media user saying she ‘hurled abuse at us because her brother and his mates attacked us on a night out in Brighton.’

She MailOnline she was merely attempting to ‘defuse’ the situation, which she says took place ‘years ago’ in her hometown.

However, the dancer and personal shopper insists the people involved were ‘antagonising’ the mystery sportsman, as well as her brother, and she didn’t think it was ‘fair’ they were ‘putting cameras in his face.’

She said: ‘The video was so many years ago if it’s the one I’m thinking of… there’s not anything to say about that story.

‘If you have seen it, you can see all I’m trying to do is defuse the situation, it was actually one of my really good friends, who is in the public eye, he’s a football player, and my brother, and these fans… people were antagonising him, we were just trying to enjoy our night and I didn’t think it was fair people were putting cameras in his face.

‘I was just trying to mediate the situation and get them away from him.’

In the social media clip, a woman, whose identity remains unknown, said, ‘You beat up my friend’ before Harriett replied, ‘He’s a Premier League football player, please leave him alone’ with the female reiterating, ‘I don’t care, he beat up my friend.’ 

After Harriett was confirmed for the show this week, one Instagram user added, ‘Love Island, do better (yes, I have a video of it).’ 

But sources close to the contestant, who has been told about the backlash by ITV as she isolates ahead of the show’s launch without access to the Internet, say she is ‘upset’ and feels the situation has been blown out of proportion.

They added: ‘Harriett can’t wait to arrive at the Love Island villa but this hiccup has affected her, it’s the last thing she wanted to happen.

‘She stands by there’s no bigger story here and viewers will hopefully see she’s the type of person to defuse the drama rather than create it.’ 

Speaking about the possibility of drama and run-ins with her future co-stars, Harriett insists she’s a ‘girls’ girl’ and wouldn’t get in the way if she and a friend were interested in pursuing the same man.

She said: ‘I am a mediator, of course I will always stick up for what’s right and I’ll always be a good friend but no, I wouldn’t be involved in drama, I would try to defuse the situation.

‘I am a proper girls’ girl so I feel like saying now, I wouldn’t want to step on their toes but at the end of the day, we are all in there for the same reason and you don’t know these people before… your ultimate goal is to find love, if you have to step on a few toes to get there, there’s nothing wrong with that.’