LOVE Island’s Megan Forte Clarke has revealed she and boyfriend Conor Phillips will move into their first home together in the next two weeks.
Devoted Conor is swapping Dublin for London
, while Megan is travelling up from Brighton having already moved from her native Ireland before taking part in the ITV dating show.
The couple are relishing having their own space, which has been over two moths in the making, and significantly cutting down on their air miles.
“Me and Conor are moving out in the next two weeks or so,” said Megan in an exclusive interview.
“It’s just a matter of moving in now, which is exciting. But obviously Conor’s coming from Ireland, so he’s got to bring all his stuff over. And I’m going to come from Brighton, so it’s not far, but when we get in, it’ll be all worth it.”
Revealing what the vibe will be like inside the new pad, Megan said it’ll be part relaxing sanctuary away from the showbiz red carpets, but also a social hub from time to time.
“I think we like a bit of a mixture, the two of us,” she said. “I definitely think we’ll have it cosy, because we do like to sit and chill and watch
Netflix and unwind and all that.
“But I do think we will have a few, at least, house-warming parties.”
She’s in no doubt it’ll benefit their relationship, which has flourished in the three months since the series came to an end.
Megan explained: “I actually think this will be better for us, living together all the time, because we’re travelling all the time now.
“We basically are living out of each other’s pockets, but when he comes to Brighton, he’s living in my little box room here. And then if I go back to Dublin, I’m living in his boys’ house. So, I think this is just going to be the perfect harmony of both.
“I think it’ll actually do us very good.”
Rugby ace Conor is used to travelling and has always had a soft spot for the buzz of the English capital.
Megan said: “To be fair, he’s always said, before even going to the villa, he wanted to move out of Ireland.
“Whenever we’re in London, he’s like, ‘I love it here’. So, I think it’ll be grand. And, to be fair, he’s basically lived in England, more or less, since the show ended, because he’s always here.”
The big move comes hot on the heels of a romantic break to Disneyland Paris for Conor’s birthday.
The pair well and truly embraced the famous Disney magic, sharing their holiday on social media.
“We had a ball,” she said. “I’ve not really been since I was a kid, so it was nice to go as an adult, and then you could experience drinking alcohol and getting on a ride as well. So that put a little cherry on top.”
Unlike some of their co-stars, Megan and Conor became boyfriend and girlfriend when the villa hunk popped the question on a beach.
It was a departure from the over-the-top, copycat declarations of love others have made, often filling a hotel room with balloons and flower petals.
“I think we’re both quite chillaxed in that sense,” said Megan.
“Like, I always said, I didn’t want the big hotel proposal, like, ‘will you be my girlfriend?’ That’s just not me.
“I way preferred the low-key kind of moment that we had.”
Their newfound fame has taken some getting used to, and the couple find it amusing when fans sometimes put 2+2 together to get 5 when analysing their relationship.
“Sometimes when we don’t post everything, people are like, ‘well, where’s this?’ And I’m like, ‘oh, yeah, we probably should have put that up, actually’,” said Megan.
“I think we’re still adjusting to it as much as people are adjusting to us.
“We get a lot of comments, especially when he’s back in Ireland, being like, ‘are you still together? Have you broken up?’ I’m like, ‘no, no, we’re just in Ireland. I’ll see him in, like, five days’.”
But Megan wouldn’t trade what they now have for her pre-fame life, instead she says she’s living a young girl’s dream.
“I think it’s more mad than I thought it would be,” she said. “I very much went into the villa with thoughts of you never know if you’re going to be the first out or if you’re going to be out earlier. You can’t expect anything from the show, really.”
Megan was gifted a second shot of love with Conor when she returned to the villa with fellow original star Blu Chegini weeks after being eliminated.
It’s something she’s very thankful for, and paved the way for her reunion with Conor and adventures they’ve had since.
“To even go back in, first of all, I was like, ‘what the hell?’ ” she said. “And then to be coming out and people recognising you and stuff, and they’re asking ‘how did you get on in
Paris with Conor?’ That’s mad.
“It’s so surreal because it’s everything you dream of as a little girl, do you know what I mean? If I told my eight-year-old self I was doing this, she’d be like, ‘what?’”
Highlighting a fairytale night at the National Television Awards at London’s O2 Arena, which began on the red carpet in front of the nation’s media, Megan said: “Like, the NTAs was crazy because Kat Slater [Jessie Wallace] was beside me on the carpet, do you know what I mean? I was like, ‘what’s going on?’ So stuff like that we were having a ball at together.”
Earlier this year, Todd Chrisley received a pardon from the President. However, Patricia Altschul is a tougher sell. Unlike POTUS, this Southern Charm star refuses to absolve Todd of his verbal crimes. Instead, this queen honey bee is standing ten wealthy toes down, adamant that Charleston is not a place for a “felon” like Todd.
Todd and Patricia are the reality feud I never saw coming. Their tiny tit for tat started after Todd’s release from prison. “During the [post-prison] press conference, I had stated that we are doing a hotel and it’s going to be near Charleston, South Carolina,” Todd explained. In response, Patricia said, “Well, there goes the neighborhood.”
Well, Todd did not like that. So, he made several jests about Patricia, which mainly focused on her older age and her finances. Overall, it was gross.
So, recently clapping back via Decider, Pat quipped, “He’s very irrelevant. I said four words—there goes the neighborhood — and he went on, and he did a whole program about me. It was just a comment in passing.” Nevertheless, Patricia stands by her original stance, saying, “We just don’t need any more felons in Charleston.”
Todd and his wife, Julie Chrisley, were indicted on charges of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the United States back in 2019. They swore they were innocent. Yet, they were still found guilty. In all, The Chrisleys: Back to Reality stars received a combined 19 years in federal prison, but thanks to their pardons, they walked out of their prison cells for good in May of this year.
And now, Ms. Pat wants them to heed her words and not walk toward her in Charleston.
Southern Charm Season 11 premieres on November 19, 2025, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Bravo. New episodes are available to stream the next day on Peacock, or Hayu in Canada, the UK, and Ireland.