{"id":56250,"date":"2025-09-11T00:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/56250\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T00:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:44:15","slug":"limericks-love-island-star-conor-phillips-opens-up-on-romance-and-life-after-the-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/56250\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick\u2019s Love Island star Conor Phillips opens up on romance and life after the villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"316\" data-end=\"537\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LIMERICK<\/a> rugby player Conor Phillips has confirmed he and fellow Irish Love Island contestant Megan Forte Clarke are officially boyfriend and girlfriend, as the couple continue to go from strength to strength outside the villa.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"539\" data-end=\"801\">The Castletroy native, who plays for Munster, struck up a connection with his fellow Irish islander Megan during this years summer\u2019s series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/local-news\/1884816\/limerick-olympian-greg-oshea-gives-a-glimpse-of-his-upcoming-wedding-to-fiance-jeanni.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Love Island<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"539\" data-end=\"801\">He confirmed that things are &#8216;official&#8217; in an interview. \u201cThere has been an update,\u201d Conor revealed. \u201cWe are boyfriend and girlfriend now, that\u2019s how well we\u2019ve been doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about how he asked Megan out, the 24-year-old said he wanted to keep it simple. \u201cIt was nice, just the two of us. It was low-key. I didn\u2019t like doing a big extravagant gesture and stuff like that. That\u2019s not really me,\u201d he admitted.<\/p>\n<p>Conor laughed that he didn\u2019t even tell his friends or family straight away. \u201cProbably like a typical boy, I didn\u2019t say it to any of my friends or family, whereas she did. Next thing I get bombarded with messages from the boys being like, \u2018is this true?\u2019 I was like, yes, I have a girlfriend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>READ NEXT:\u00a0<\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/pictures---videos\/1888865\/pictures-manchester-united-legends-meet-limerick-fans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">PICTURES: Manchester United legends meet Limerick fans<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pair have already been spotted out and about in Ireland, with Megan recently bringing Conor along to meet her friends in Dublin. The couple also revealed they have been living together for the past three months, with Conor considering a move to London for practical reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Limerick man has spoken warmly about Megan since leaving the villa, admitting she was \u201cthe only person in the UK\u201d who could have convinced him to stay on the show after he was dumped. \u201cLooks-wise and personality-wise, she was my type to a T,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>For now, the couple are focusing on settling into life beyond Love Island, but with Conor already meeting Megan\u2019s circle and talks of moving to London on the horizon, it seems the Irish duo\u2019s romance is only getting stronger.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIMERICK rugby player Conor Phillips has confirmed he and fellow Irish Love Island contestant Megan Forte Clarke are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[435,18,117,19,17,1844,5073,12311,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-56250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-celebrity","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-limerick","14":"tag-love-island","15":"tag-munster-rugby","16":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}