When Jasmine Müller walked into the Love Island 2026 villa, she brought something that most contestants don’t: real experience being in public. Since she was nineteen, she’s been in front of films. She owns a clothing store. She has a lot more than a million Instagram fans. But what really got people’s attention right away was a small fact she dropped during a game of Never Have I Ever: she dated a Premier League football player once. She drank. She didn’t say much. In her own words, she was “very private.” And in just a few hours, the internet had filled in the gaps.
People chose the name Hector Bellerin, which is a Spanish right back who played for a lot of years at Arsenal before moving on to play for Real Betis in La Liga. He was born in Badalona and is now 31 years old. Over the years, he has built a reputation as both a football player and a dedicated vegan and environmental activist. Being both good at football and having strong morals made him a bit of an oddity in the world of professional football. This may help explain why he and Jasmine seemed to fit together.
Around 2021, when Bellerin was still at Arsenal, the two were linked. It’s important to note that Jasmine has been careful about what she shares. She hasn’t said how they met or how long the relationship lasted. She has said over and over that the breakup was friendly, and she says it with what sounds like real warmth. “I have a lot of time for him,” she told the press as she walked into the villa. “There’s not really any drama or anything interesting to say about it because we both just have a lot of love for each other.” Not many people say things like that to act mature. At least, it doesn’t sound that way.
They haven’t been together in five years. Indeed, Jasmine has said that she has been single for five years, which means that the breakup happened in that exact time frame in 2021. In most ways, five years is a long time, but she doesn’t seem to be affected by it in any way. In fact, it looks like she used that time to make something on her own. Nobody in the fashion business, the public’s trust, or the following looks like they stopped moving forward after a breakup.
If you think about it for a minute, what she said about being with a famous person when she was young is kind of interesting. When it happened, she was in her early 20s. “Having lived that at such a young age has obviously prepared me,” she said. It’s honest in the way it’s put together; it’s not making it sound better or worse. It was enough to acknowledge that it changed her.
Hector, on the other hand, has always been pretty vocal about issues other than football. He gave up meat in 2016. He’s talked about animal rights and protecting the environment in a way that sounds more like a genuine belief than a marketing ploy. It is known that Jasmine shares those values, so it looks like they also agree on that.
She has made it clear that she’s not closed off to football players in the short term. “If I like you, I like you,” she said. Being that honest and open about things is either very healthy or very practiced, or maybe it’s both. She is now with Kavan in the villa after getting through the early problems of a love triangle with Lorenzo. It looks like the Hector part of her life is really over. She’s talked about it just enough to make people interested, but not enough to make it a central part of her story. And to be honest, that quietness could be the most telling thing about her.
