{"id":381799,"date":"2026-01-21T07:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/381799\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T07:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:14:09","slug":"heres-who-love-islander-jack-keatings-ex-and-the-mum-of-his-baby-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/381799\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s who Love Islander Jack Keating&#8217;s ex and the mum of his baby is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She lives in a different country to him<\/p>\n<p>As Jack Keating is opening up in the Love Island villa about being a \u201cbaby daddy\u201d, here\u2019s a look at which ex-girlfriend he had the aforementioned baby with.<\/p>\n<p>Jack had a baby eight months after he was on Love Island<\/p>\n<p>Jack Keating has a three-year-old daughter called Maya. Her mother is called Keely Iqbal. He\u2019s made it clear in interviews that they were never officially in a romantic relationship. They must have been together in early summer 2022, a few weeks before Jack flew to Mallorca for<a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/tag\/love-island\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Love Island<\/a> 2022. After leaving the Love Island villa, Jack learned he would be a dad. <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/2026\/01\/15\/right-heres-the-wild-saga-of-jack-keating-having-a-baby-straight-after-love-island-explained\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Their daughter Maya was born in February 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jack\u2019s ex is an artist<\/p>\n<p>Keely studied at Birmingham City University. She is now an artist who does *takes deep breath* graphic design, illustration, art for shoes and clothes and wall murals. She\u2019s worked for Crocs and Selfridges. Keely shares lots of craft ideas to her Instagram, and has racked up a fair few followers.<\/p>\n<p>Keely co-parents Maya with Jack<\/p>\n<p>Maya seems to mostly live with Keely. Jack told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ok.co.uk\/celebrity-news\/ronan-keating-dotes-over-angel-32114433\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OK<\/a>: \u201cShe can do overnights and weekends and I can take her on holidays.\u201d Keely and Maya live in Birmingham. Meanwhile, Jack used to live in London, but then moved to Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>She has been sharing her thoughts on All Stars<\/p>\n<p>Yup, Jack Keating\u2019s ex has been watching him talk about their baby on Love Island. She reshared clips on Insta of Jack flirting with <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/2025\/03\/27\/so-heres-everything-that-went-down-when-love-island-star-whitney-starred-on-netflixs-inside\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whitney<\/a>, then add \u201cWho\u2019s ready?\u201d and various emojis.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-570112\" class=\"size-full wp-image-570112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-20-at-17.12.35.png\" alt=\"jack keating whitney love island ex\" width=\"467\" height=\"836\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-570112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Image via Instagram)<\/p>\n<p>For all the latest Love Island news and gossip,\u00a0<a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thispageistrash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thispageistrash\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">like The Holy Church of Love Island on Facebook.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Featured images via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/keely.arts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@keely.arts<\/a> and ITVX.<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She lives in a different country to him As Jack Keating is opening up in the Love Island&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,574,7482,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-381799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-love-island","tag-reality-tv","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}