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LOVE Island’s Leanne Amaning has broken her silence on her feud with Whitney Adebayo.

The pair fell out after they both appeared on this year’s series of the ITV2 dating show’s spin-off All Stars.

Some “snakey” behaviour in the villa led the two to fall out and the drama continued when the pair returned to the UK after the programme.

Leanne, who shot to fame on series six of the show, lifted the lid on if they were pals in a recent get ready with me video on her YouTube channel.

She read out a question from a fan which asked: “Will you ever speak about any of the fall outs post show? Whitney said that you and her are friends again. Is this true?”

Leanne said: “Honestly, I have no plans to whatsoever. I probably would take it to the grave with me.

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“I feel like, I personally don’t feel a need to comment on something that to me is so clearly from a place of spite, bitterness.

“Clearly a continuous attempt to try and humiliate me. I feel like a lot of things speak for themselves. A lot of things are very obvious.

“When there is a pattern of continuous fall outs and whatever, it’s just clear what the issue is.

“I know myself, I know my truth, I know what is true. Other people’s perception of me and how other people view me, it’s just not my business.

“It’s actually above me. I just try to keep positive, even through the negativity, I just don’t want to give out low vibrational vibes or negative energy.

“I just don’t want to do that. I just don’t want to reciprocate that energy.

“I don’t want the negativity to make me someone that I am not.

“I do think though, quite a lot of things have been said since the villa, mind you it is November, we are still going, at what point does it class as harassment?

“I probably would have responded if I thought anything productive would have come out of it.

“To me, it’s very clear a productive conversation isn’t going to come out of people spewing lies from a place of bitterness or misery, with the clear intention to humiliate me, embarrass me, humble me.

“That is not going to be a productive conversation.

“So I don’t even give it the time of day.

“Me and Whitney are not friends. We’re fine in the sense of if we were in the same room I can co-exist, we’re not fine in the sense of I would go up and say hello.”

She then went on to explain how they did cross paths at a brand trip – and were able to “co-exist” together.

Leanne continued: “I had a flash forward moment, I’m picturing 2032, we’re still going on about the same thing.

“I would honestly just describe it as cordial, the only reason I would say cordial, if that, is because we were on a brand trip together.

“As much as I did try to avoid, you know what brand trips are like, we do a lot of things together, you know brand trips are quite intimate.

“The first day I did successfully manage to avoid.

“The second day I was confronted. We did speak, we did have a bit of a back and fourth which was not ideal. I am a professional and I know how to keep it professional.

“I found the confrontation not professional whatsoever.

“There was also another situation in the brand trip that was very uncomfortable, we had mutual friends.

“The situation was uncomfortable for the mutual friends and it was unprofessional for the trip.

“For the sake of the trip, I put everything to the side and we just was able to co-exist.

“For the trip. Emphasis on the trip, I am not friends with people who try to humiliate me, act spitefully towards me, spread misinformation about me.

“That is not someone I am friends with, or cool with.

“But again, we can co-exist at the end of the day.

“I think there was some progress made. Her and Scott did speak and an apology was made from her side, however, you can’t publicly try to spite someone, you can’t publicly do that, and then privately apologise.

“That’s not how it works. I think had there been some public acknowledgement of the situation, maybe there could have been a conversation, or something to move forward. There wasn’t. So there isn’t.

“That’s literally it. This is the only time that I am going to address it. It’s only because a New Year is coming up and I don’t want to keep talking about the same things.

“After the villa there was no friendship. There was a friendship in the villa.”

The Sun has contacted Whitney’s rep for comment.

Leanne wasn’t happy when Whitney told her best pal Scott Van-der-Sluis, who she met back in 2023 on Love Island, that he was more suited to US bombshell Sher Suarez while he was getting to know Leanne.

During the series, Whitney – who originally took part in series 10 – didn’t hold back as she shared her views on their romance.

To make matters worse, Leanne also showed an interest in Whitney’s man Yamen Sanders.

Tensions reached boiling point during Movie Night when the girls went head-to-head after Whitney accused Leanne of “egging” on the drama between the other girls.

Whitney had also fallen out with Leanne’s man Scott – who shared an update on their feud in June after her olive branch.

Leanne and Scott are still going strong after placing third on this year’s All Stars series – and even broke their silence on their relationship status after weeks of split rumours back in August.

Meanwhile Whitney and Yamen, who placed fifth on the spin-off, are no longer together.

Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp has been hit with the largest ever fine against it for its business practices.

A judge in New Mexico on Wednesday ordered the company to pay $25bn (£18.6bn) following a two week trial earlier this year that found it had spent years lying to the public about how it handled Facebook user data.

“The lies extend beyond Facebook’s data practices as well,” the judge said, adding they went to “the heart of Facebook’s core business practices.”

The fine is the largest to date against Meta, which has either been fined or agreed to settle several other lawsuits this year, including an $18bn deal with California over child safety.

The lawsuit stemmed from the role of Meta, then known as Facebook, in what became known as the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

That firm utilized data and information from millions of Facebook users as part of its work in political consulting, including on work related to the 2016 US Presidential election, which saw Donald Trump elected for the first time.

The US Federal Trade Commission in 2019 levied a $5bn fine against the company over its data privacy practices.

Lawyers for New Mexico sued the company over many statements Meta executives had made over the years that user data was never shared with or accessed by third parties without a user’s permission, when in reality it had been.

They claimed that the entire population of the state, roughly 2 million people, was impacted by Meta’s dishonesty regarding the way it controlled user data. A jury found that Meta had violated state laws more than 40 million times.

“For too long, powerful technology companies have operated as though their size and influence put them beyond the reach of the law,” New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez said Wednesday.

“Today’s result makes clear that no corporation is too powerful to be held accountable.”

The state lawyers sought up to $40bn in fines against Meta. Meta had argued anything beyond $3.4bn would be unconstitutional.

Judge Francis Mathew on Wednesday was direct in his decision to fine Meta an amount roughly equal to its profits each quarter.

He said Meta’s violations of law and misrepresentations to the public about how their Facebook data was used and shared were “willful” and spanned “more than 11 years,” stretching from 2010 to 2021.

Communications between senior executives, including Mark Zuckerberg, were “designed to mislead the public,” Judge Mathew wrote in his order.

While the full amount of the penalty against Meta, based on thousands of violations of state law, was calculated as $219bn, Judge Mathew reduced the penalty to the $25bn fine.

A spokesperson for Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

New Mexico has been one of Meta’s most notable adversaries in court. The state this year also fined Meta almost $1bn for misleading the public about the safety of its social media platforms for children.

The judge overseeing that lawsuit ultimately compared Meta to an industrial polluter of the air, with its form of pollution being “the psychological harm and sexual exploitation of children.”

California and several other states had collectively sued Meta over similar issues related to a lack of child safety features on Meta’s platforms and resulting harms to children.

Meta and the states reached a mutual settlement deal, which did not include a fine or any admission of wrongdoing, to end that case only a few days into what was expected to be a multi-week trial.

A former research engineer who worked closely with Elizabeth Holmes at Theranos says “You Can See Everything” doesn’t show, well, everything.

You may remember Tyler Shultz from HBO’s “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley,” or even the fictionalized series “The Dropout” starring Amanda Seyfried as the disgraced Theranos CEO. He was one of the whistleblowers who raised the alarm when Holmes’ blood-testing technology was not the revolutionary medical device she claimed it to be. Shultz met Holmes through his grandfather, former Secretary of State George Shultz, who sat on the Theranos board of directors and scored Shultz an internship at the medical diagnostic startup, which quickly evolved into a full-time position as a research engineer. During his eight months on the job, he realized something was terribly wrong.

“You Can See Everything” directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim may have fallen into Holmes’ carefully curated trap, Shultz warns in a new essay.

“I’ve had the displeasure of watching disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes at work not just over a three-hour film, but over the entirety of my adult life. I was an employee turned whistleblower at Theranos, my grandfather sat on her board, she came to my family holidays and birthday parties. I met her when I was 20, she went to prison when I was 32,” he wrote in a Stat News op-ed published Monday.

“I wish I could have told director Nathan Fielder what I told [New York Times reporter] John Carreyrou when he started investigating her: Do not underestimate Elizabeth Holmes.”

Los Angeles Times columnist Glenn Whipp wrote that the film leaves viewers with many questions: “about Holmes, about the slippery nature of truth and about the objectivity of documentary filmmaking itself.” The film, labeled a documentary, grossed $15 million this weekend, making it the second-highest-grossing opening for the genre.

But Shultz says that while “You Can See Everything” is an entertaining piece of art, it’s certainly not a documentary, and “it’s dangerous to pretend that it is.”

Shultz calls out what he says are misleading components of the film, including the blood-testing device that Holmes shows Fielder.

“Back to the Theranos device itself. During that scene, my wife had to squeeze my arm to prevent me from jumping out of my seat in the theater and screaming, ‘THAT IS NOT THE DEVICE,’” Shultz writes. “That was not the device I worked with 12 hours a day, not the device we hid from regulators, not the device that constantly failed quality controls, not the device we used to knowingly give patients inaccurate medical results. The device she showed Fielder on the kitchen table was not the reason she went to prison. Elizabeth showed him a future version of the Theranos product that was never completed and never used in order to lead Fielder down this BS semantic rabbit hole and to trick him into litigating the entirely wrong thing.”

The research engineer-turned-whistleblower also called out the quaint two-bedroom condo in which the film was shot, pointing out that Holmes had just recently lived with partner Billy Evans, whose family owns a luxury resort in San Diego, in an estate listed at $125 million.

He also raises questions about the abuse Holmes suffered at the hands of her ex-boyfriend, convicted fraudster and Theranos COO Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani. Shultz claims Holmes spotted Balwani’s abusive tendencies and clocked him as the perfect fall guy if things went south.