Jess Gale has responded to rumours of Callum Jones still being in love with his ex Molly Smith on Tuesday - following the Love Island All Stars final.

The Love Island All Stars' finalists were seen at the airport in South Africa on Wednesday to return back to the UK.

But before they return to normality, Jess, 24, has revealed what it was really like to hear from the public that the exes were 'still in love'.

Throughout the ITV series, viewers were rooting for Molly, 29, and Callum, 27, to rekindle their relationship - after they split from their three-year relationship just six months before they made a shock arrival into the villa.

Molly, who won the final with her new flame Tom Clare, 24, was also shocked to hear the public were hoping she and Callum would get back together - after Dani Dyer, Olivia Attwood and Bradley Dack spilt the tea during the series.

And speaking on the Love Island: The Morning After podcast with Indiyah Polack, Jess shed light on the situation.

She said: 'Obviously when I first heard I was very shocked by it. And I thought was there anything I was overlooking? I didn’t want to be naive.

'I was scared of being perceived as really bad if Callum and Molly were this 'love story' and I was standing in the way.

'So yeah I was a bit nervous about the whole thing. But Callum was very reassuring and he put it to bed quickly. So it was smooth running after that.'

Callum added: 'Yeah even after the first week or two we were friends and to be fair I'm glad we kind of got that friendship.

'I know people maybe have seen past the friendship because they want the fairytale but that sometimes doesn't happen.

'Life is too short, it takes more energy to be bad with someone to be negative, than it does to get on with life. Life goes on.'

It comes as Molly and Tom scraped their Love Island All Stars win on Monday night, according to new reports.

New voting percentages reveal Callum and Jess closely missed out on the win during the grand finale by two percent.

Molly and Tom took home the £50,000 prize after receiving 35 percent of the public vote, according to The Sun.

Molly's ex Callum and his partner Jess received just below at 33 percent while Sophie and Josh, who placed third, got 15 percent of viewer votes.

Georgia Steel and Toby Aromolaran were backed by 10 percent, leaving Georgia Harrison and Anton Danyluk last place with only seven percent of votes.