{"id":534657,"date":"2026-07-10T12:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/534657\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:50:11","slug":"love-islands-lola-defended-by-brother-after-backlash-over-julia-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/534657\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Island\u2019s Lola defended by brother after backlash over Julia drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"publish_date\">10 July 2026, 12:54<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Love Island Lola Deal pictured and a screen of her brother's video.\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"827094\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/827094.webp\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    Love Island star Lola\u2019s brother speaks out after online backlash.<\/p>\n<p>Picture:<br \/>\nITV &amp; TikTok<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dialog\/share?href=www.capitalfm.com%2Fnews%2Ftv-film%2Flove-island%2Flola-julia-row-brother-backlash%2F&amp;app_id=184899318222048\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"gusto.tracking.social(&#039;facebook&#039;, &#039;share&#039;)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook share\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/facebook-share.png\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"standfirst\">Love Island star Lola Deal\u2019s brother has taken to social media to defend his sister claiming she&#8217;s received &#8220;unfair&#8221; backlash over her row with Julia Mayska.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Things have been getting quite tense in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.com\/news\/tv-film\/love-island\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Love Island<\/a> villa, and now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.com\/news\/tv-film\/love-island\/lola-deal-age-job-where-from\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Lola Deal<\/a>&#8216;s brother has taken to social media to defend his sister following the recent backlash she&#8217;s received over her feud with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.com\/news\/tv-film\/love-island\/julia-mayska-age-job-where-from-instagram\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Julia Mayska<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">During Casa Amor, Julia formed a connection with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.com\/news\/tv-film\/love-island\/lorenzo-alessi-age-job-where-from\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Lorenzo Alessi<\/a> and had a few flirty exchanges with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.com\/news\/tv-film\/love-island\/sean-fitzy-age-job-where-from-tiktok\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Se\u00e1n Fitzgerald<\/a>.  When Lola learnt about this, she confronted Julia about her behaviour towards Se\u00e1n, as he was the only boy in an exclusive relationship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">After a series of heated exchanges, the pair put their differences aside. However, tensions flared once again when Julia questioned how genuine Lola and Se\u00e1n&#8217;s relationship was during a game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Although Julia has since made amends with Se\u00e1n and the girls, Lola and Julia are yet to resolve their issues from the challenge \u2014 an ongoing drama Lola&#8217;s brother has now defended online. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Love Island's Lola Deal and Julia Mayska pictured chatting.\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"827093\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/827093.webp\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    Love Island&#8217;s Lola and Julia have clashed in the villa.<\/p>\n<p>Picture:<br \/>\nITV<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Lola&#8217;s brother said he didn&#8217;t plan to make a TikTok <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@o.f.deal\/video\/7660520530893606166?_r=1&amp;_t=ZN-97uZW1Ku9bS\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> about the &#8220;unsolicited&#8221; and &#8220;unfair&#8221; hate his sister has received, but stated that he he felt compelled to share &#8220;her perspective of things&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">He said: &#8220;Her [Lola] perspective, she&#8217;s in the villa, Fitzy&#8217;s has gone Casa Amor. She doesn&#8217;t know what&#8217;s gone on in Casa Amor, she hasn&#8217;t got a clue. He does a kissing challenge and wins, which she&#8217;s a bit annoyed about. Rightly so, as anyone else would be.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Lola&#8217;s brother claimed that Sean had &#8220;played down&#8221; the kissing challenge and his interactions with Julia when he returned to the main villa. However, he argued that Lola had no reason to distrust Sean opinion, as they&#8217;ve been with &#8220;each other 24 hours a day for three weeks&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Later in the video, Lola&#8217;s brother brought up the recent challenge in which Julia and Lorenzo were voted the couple the other islanders would least like to go on a double date with because Julia is &#8220;drama&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">He said: &#8220;If everyone&#8217;s who&#8217;s there for 24 hours a day is saying the same person is drama, she&#8217;s probably drama. We watch one hour a day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">&#8220;You&#8217;ve all got the narrative that Lola is a bully and everyone&#8217;s somehow now bully-circling Julia. Or maybe she just is the drama and they all know it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A screenshot of Lola Deal's brothers TikTok video.\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"827119\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/827119.webp\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    Love Island star Lola&#8217;s brother has called the backlash &#8220;unfair&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Picture:<br \/>\nTikTok<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Although he admitted Lola wasn&#8217;t &#8220;perfect&#8221;, he argued that fans were &#8220;jumping on a bandwagon&#8221; of hate that didn&#8217;t make any sense to him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">He said: &#8220;Your hating someone because she&#8217;s got an issue with one person, calling her a bully and all that s&#8212;, but then your going on her Instagram and commenting all these hate comments as a collective to &#8216;support Julia&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Lola&#8217;s brother claimed the hate had been &#8220;unnecessary&#8221;, particularly when other people in the villa had done &#8220;worse&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Listen live to Capital, and catch up on any shows you missed, on <a href=\"https:\/\/app.af.globalplayer.com\/Br0x\/CaptoGP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Global Player<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"10 July 2026, 12:54 Love Island star Lola\u2019s brother speaks out after online backlash. 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