FORMER Love Islanders have been forced to take sides following an explosive row on the current series of All Stars.
Viewers, and past show stars alike, have been left stunned by the Scott van-der-Sluis and Sean Stone row.
Scott has so far left Sean in tears after tearing into him on a number of occasions over his villa conduct.
A stunned Sean has since branded him a bully and has tearfully spoken out about feeling bullied by him whilst locked in the South African villa.
Having seen the upsetting scenes, a slew of past Islanders have now spoken out in support of Sean and are backing him all the way in the feud.
Show legends Tom Clare, Samantha Kenny, Ronnie Vint and Abi Moores have now all raced to Sean’s defence with various social media posts.
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Commenting on the difficult to watch scenes of Scott’s brutal put down, Tom said: “Ahhh man Sean big respect mate and Tommy sticking up for your boy.”
Samantha also backed Sean and praised Tommy Bradley for supporting him, saying: “Tommy and Sean to win as a couple x.”
Abi added: “This is very brave of Sean, wish I had this confidence when I was in there.”
Whilst, Ronnie wrote: “Sean brother. Well said, keep ur head up!”
Meanwhile, former X Factor singer Sam Bailey even waded into into the row, writing online: “This is so hard to watch! Leanne needs to think about who she is coupled up with!! She must be embarrassed! Met sean and he is an absolute gent!
“Even sent me some sweets! Such a nice lad! He didn’t deserve that! And you can see how awkward and hard it is for the others to watch in the villa!”
Interestingly, another Islander, and former show winner, Mimii Ngulube also came out in defence of Sean.
Her testimony to him was very telling, given her fractious freidnship with Sean in the villa with accusations that Sean targeted Mimii during her time on the show.
During his vicious put-downs, Scott referenced the way Sean had treated others during his first series of the show as being the main reason he took a dislike to him and decided to come after him.
Many viewers took this as an implication towards Mimii.
But Mimii has supported Sean and also asked to not be referenced as a reason for people sticking up for Scott.
When asked by a fan if she forgave Sean for how he treated her and if she feels she has karma now that he has cried on national TV, Mimii maturely said: “Sean and I have moved on from that situation and so everyone else should too.
“No one deserves to feel like that and I’m glad he spoke up about how it made him feel because that’s not as easy thing to do.
“I’ll always advocate for kindness always and so if anyone disagrees with that and thinks he deserves to be hurt, please don’t speak thinking it’s from a place of my defence.”
A day after the row took place, it was revealed that Sean had been voted as the favourite boy by the public – a vote that appeared to leave Scott looking solemn.