SECRET ROMANCE REVEALED: Love Island’s Anton Danyluk has revealed he has a secret girlfriend after his All Stars appearance, leaving fans stunned. The reality star kept the relationship away from the spotlight — but the reason he chose to hide his new romance is now becoming the biggest talking point…
Love Island favourite Anton Danyluk has confirmed he is in a new relationship, revealing during an Instagram Q&A that he has been dating a mystery woman he matched with on a dating app in July. The Scottish fitness coach and reality star, who first rose to fame on the fifth series of Love Island in 2019 and returned for All Stars in 2024, said he is “smitten” with his new partner and has chosen to keep her identity private for now.
Anton, 31, made the admission while answering fan questions on Instagram. When asked whether he was dating anyone, he confirmed the news and explained the journey that led him there. “I am indeed and I’ve done a carousel on this this morning,” he said. “I’ve said for so long that I was not interested in dating anyone. I had actually seen myself probably this time last year, being single forever, there was no drive to meet someone.”
The turning point, he explained, came last Christmas. After years of prioritising his fitness career, business and personal growth, Anton realised how isolated he had become. “I was really focused on me and getting back to myself, which I feel like I have done now and then it got to Christmas time and the only people that text me on Christmas were my clients,” he said. “That just showed me how much I’ve put into my work over the last few years and myself to get to that position where I’ve blocked everyone out other than my work. And I decided this year that I wanted to find the person because I did feel lonely at Christmas.”
Despite that resolution, Anton admitted he fell back into old habits for the first half of 2026. “I was like, right this year I’m going to meet someone and for six months, I just fell into the same routine of ultimately not trying.” By July he decided the time had come to take deliberate action. “It came to July and I’m like ‘well, you’re more than halfway through the year, and you’ve not taken any action and it’s not going to land in your lap. Obviously not, nothing does in life’.”
His original plan was methodical. Anton intended to go on as many first dates as possible to maximise his chances of finding a genuine connection. Instead, the first date changed everything. “Logically I was going to go on a dating app, but this time when I’m doing it, I’m going to go on loads of first dates because that’s going to increase probability of getting the person, that was my game plan. But then I went on a first date, really got on with that person and I realised I’m not the type of person if I’m in on something or someone. I’m in it with that person and I’ll give it a go. So I knew I had to double down on dates because obviously you need to find out, so I just doubled down on dates with this one person and so far, so good.”
He ended the update with a smile and a cryptic note: “She knows who she is.”
The revelation marks a significant shift for Anton, who has spoken openly in the past about the difficulty of balancing a high-profile fitness career with a personal life. After appearing on Love Island in 2019, he left the villa coupled with Belle Hassan. Their relationship lasted only five weeks once they returned to the UK, with distance cited as a major factor. Belle was based in Kent while Anton remained in Scotland. The pair have maintained a relatively civil public relationship in the years since, though Anton has previously commented on her later return to the All Stars franchise.
In 2024 Anton re-entered the villa for the first series of Love Island: All Stars. There he formed a connection with Georgia Harrison. The couple finished in fifth place and continued seeing each other after the show, but the relationship ended a few months later. Sources at the time pointed to the challenges of maintaining a long-distance romance. Anton has since reflected on the experience as part of a broader period of self-focus.
Before All Stars, Anton had also been in a relationship with fitness coach Dominika Blunska. That partnership, which he once described as one of the best he had experienced in terms of day-to-day compatibility, ended in September 2023, shortly before he received the call to return to the Love Island franchise. He later characterised it as a relationship that had drifted into friendship rather than romance.
Beyond his romantic history, Anton has built a substantial career as a fitness influencer, gym owner and bodybuilder. He competed in bodybuilding contests, finishing third in one event, before stepping away from the sport in 2023 after stating it left him feeling the worst he had ever felt. That experience led him to front a BBC documentary, Anton Danyluk on Body Shame, in which he explored the pressures of physique-focused culture and the mental health impact of extreme training and dieting. The documentary marked a more reflective chapter in his public life and appeared to coincide with a deliberate period of personal recalibration.
The loneliness Anton described at Christmas sits against this backdrop of intense professional focus. Like many reality television alumni who transition into fitness and content creation, he has spoken about the demands of maintaining an online presence, training clients, and building a brand. The realisation that his only festive messages came from clients appears to have been a genuine wake-up call. It prompted a conscious decision to reopen himself to the possibility of a relationship after years of prioritising work and self-improvement.
By choosing to keep his new girlfriend’s identity private, Anton is taking a different approach from the highly public relationships that defined his earlier Love Island chapters. The decision may reflect lessons learned from previous experiences that played out under intense media and fan scrutiny. Dating app matches and early-stage relationships are rarely given the same level of public exposure as villa couplings, and Anton’s choice to protect this one suggests a desire for a more grounded start.
Fans who followed his journey from the original 2019 series through All Stars and his subsequent fitness content have largely responded positively to the news. Many noted the maturity in his account of recognising loneliness and taking practical steps to address it rather than waiting for a connection to appear organically. Others expressed curiosity about the woman who managed to shift his perspective so quickly on a first date.
Anton’s story also touches on a broader theme familiar to many former Islanders: the challenge of finding genuine connection after the heightened environment of the villa. Reality television relationships often form under artificial conditions of constant proximity, limited external options, and the pressure of public voting. Translating those bonds into ordinary life, or finding new ones afterwards, has proved difficult for numerous cast members. Anton’s admission that he had convinced himself he might remain single indefinitely, only to change course after a lonely Christmas, adds a more ordinary human dimension to a career that has otherwise been defined by high-visibility romance and fitness content.
The timing of the revelation, roughly two years after his All Stars appearance and several years after his original Love Island exit, suggests a man who has taken time to rebuild his sense of self before re-entering the dating world with clearer intentions. His description of doubling down on dates with one person rather than continuing to play the field indicates a shift away from the more casual approach some former Islanders adopt in the immediate aftermath of the show.
As of the Instagram Q&A, Anton gave no further details about his new partner beyond the fact that they met via a dating app in July and that the connection felt strong enough to abandon his original multi-date strategy. He has not shared photographs or named her, and he appears content to let the relationship develop away from the spotlight that has followed his previous romances.
For a star whose public image has long been tied to both physical transformation and romantic storylines, the latest chapter feels notably understated. There is no dramatic villa entrance, no public recoupling, and no immediate social media soft launch. Instead there is a straightforward account of recognising isolation, deciding to take action, and finding someone on the first attempt. In the often chaotic world of post-Love Island dating, that simplicity may prove the most interesting development of all.
Anton Danyluk’s confirmation that he is no longer single closes one period of deliberate solitude and opens another that he is choosing to protect. Whether the relationship lasts or remains private remains to be seen, but the manner of its announcement already marks a departure from the more public romantic chapters that defined his earlier years in the public eye. For now, the only people who need to know the details are Anton and the woman he says already “knows who she is.”
