Wes Nelson breaks silence on Megan Barton Hanson split and reveals ‘I don’t want ‘jealous’ ex back, I’m happier being sex free!’
THEY were Love Island’s hottest ever couple with the hunky 20-year-old hooking up with the former stripper on TV, embarking on daily X-rated sex sessions in front of the nation and boasting about the size of his ‘foot long’ manhood.
Off-screen true romance blossomed with the pair moving in together - and even buying a hamster.
But within weeks of starting his next reality show, Wes Nelson and Megan Barton Hanson split amid cheating rumours with his professional skating partner.
In his first interview since the split, Wes breaks his silence on the truth about why their ‘intense love story’ abruptly ended and why he’ll never take ‘jealous’ Megan back.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun Online Wes insists they won’t get back together... even for the sake of that sizzling sex.
“Apparently it had fizzed out anyway,” he laughs. “But anyone who watched Love Island would know our sex life would not struggle, it was second to none. I never came home and was like ‘I am too tired to do anything,’ our sex life remained very healthy throughout.
“Do I miss the sex? Of course! But am I begging for it? No, I am quite happy training and just being sex free for now.”
In fact, Wes admits he’d be even happier if Megan met someone else.
“I want to see her be happy and if that means she moves on then so be it, as long as the next bloke makes her happier than I can. I’m not spiteful or nasty in that way.”
So what went wrong? Megan was reportedly enraged with jealousy towards Vanessa after she dared announce she’d split her with long-term boyfriend the night before Wes’ debut Dancing On Ice performance.
But Wes insists there is nobody else to blame - least of all his professional skating partner. And he even says Megan wasn’t jealous, despite publicly hitting out at her on Instagram in a series of cringe-inducing posts.
Megan accused Vanessa of ‘being after her man’, with fans dubbing her ‘the scorned ex’ after she appeared in the audience looking miserable the week before they’d split.
But despite all that, Wes insists he wasn’t embarrassed, but admits it affected his performance on the ice. So it’s no wonder it all ended after that. So what’s the truth?
“Megan wasn’t jealous to the point she was going to end the relationship. There was just one time when she went off, but that was more a miscommunication, not jealousy.
No woman would enjoy their partner training with another for an extended period of time. It is nothing that Vanessa has done, just the fact she didn’t reach out to Megan - she expected her to reassure her...
“Obviously it wasn’t easy and it affected training and it did affect my routine but you pick yourself up and dust yourself off, it’s not one of them where I can’t be with this partner, she was never asking for that. It never ruined my experience but it threw my routine off a little bit. Maybe the pressure got to me.
“But there is no chemistry with Vanessa, everyone here knows that, but on the ice there has to be some kind of bond in terms of your dancing, not off the ice.
“Vanessa is happy and Megan is happy there is nothing going on. She has never had any doubts with me or any sort of trust issues but I think she regrets the way she did it. I think she wishes she spoke to Vanessa directly.”
Instead, Wes blames the end of the relationship on struggling to find the time for romance - definitely not claims that Megan had been playing the field behind his back. In September Megan was reported to have gone home with Towie’s Pete Wicks after partying at a strip club until 4.30am.
“I knew everyone there on the night and I spoke to them. It was nothing. I’ve spoken to Pete Wicks too and they all said the exact same thing without conversing with each other.”
Fans thought because Megan turned up to watch Wes skate the weekend after they split the break-up was all fake and they were secretly reuniting. But Wes insists it’s “absolute baloney.”
“We’ve not been talking to get back together. People saying it’s a fake break-up is absolute baloney. I wouldn’t put myself through this stress. It makes absolutely no sense. It has not been a nice experience. It’s been upsetting and the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
“We were a couple, that’s all people saw us as. To then break up and be apart from the other person who you’ve had by your side to deal with these pressures and nasty things, isn’t easy.”
Yesterday Megan was seen moving out of the flat they shared with a little help from Matt Fiddes, Michael Jackson’s former bodyguard and her new personal trainer who she now calls ‘her rock’. But Wes isn’t bothered she appears to have a new friend and is flaunting her new friendship on social media.
“He’s got a wife... and a lot of kids. He’s twice her age, why would I be jealous of that? She’s not trying to make me jealous, she knows she won’t because I’m not a jealous person.”
As for their ‘son’ the hamster they named Jon Snow and who formed a very pivotal role in Megan’s Gwyneth Paltrow inspired break-up statement, Wes says she can keep it.
“I bloody paid for the thing myself! I came home and Jon wasn’t there, she’d got him and I had no choice in it. I do love Jon though, he’s a top bloke but I won’t be battling for custody - she can keep him.”
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For now, Wes is concentrating on winning Dancing On Ice - and he’s a real contender with Vanessa by his side after wowing audiences with a deadly headbanger after just five weeks.
“The competition is definitely heating up now. Our training sessions are getting more intense, we’re putting in a lot more hours and never taking breaks...”
So there’s definitely no time to worry about Megan. Not now... but what about when it’s all over?
“The way it stands, I don’t think so. It’s not just the show that’s caused it so we wouldn’t get back together after it. There wasn’t a final nail in the coffin - it was a series of yellow cards, not one red card, if that makes sense.
“Every single person can name a person they know who’s been madly in love with someone, but years or months later, they grow apart or realise they weren’t the person they thought they were. It doesn’t have to be that they did this or kissed them... it can be a combination of small things that makes it one big thing.
“We both love each other, both respect each other but we’re not the people we want to be with in the long term. We don’t want to waste each other’s time.
"You want to be with someone who you know you’re going to spend the rest of your life with. We’re being selfish and saying we can’t force it. It’s got to be right for both of us.”
While Megan has vowed she won’t date another celebrity, Wes feels the same, even with Valentine’s Day around the corner.
“I’ll just be rehearsing on Valentine’s Day. People have slid in my DMs but not interested, it’s far too soon. Absolutely no to Cheryl, I’m not an idiot. It could be Margot Robbie… but it doesn’t matter who you are - I am off limits until I declare!”
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