DANNY Dyer has slammed his daughter Dani’s Love Island ex and insisted he “wasn’t what he was on the telly”.
The Marching Powder actor, 47, took a brutal swipe at Jack Fincham, 33, while admitting he hated Dani going on Love Island.
Danny has taken a swipe at his daughter’s ex[/caption]
Dani and Jack, 32, won over the nation on the ITV2 show in 2018, with viewers gripped by their honest banter and love story.
The couple split just six months after leaving the Majorca villa, and Dani returned to her pre-Love Island boyfriend Sammy Kimmence.
She welcomed their son Santiago in January 2021.
Later that year her world fell apart when Kimmence was convicted of conning two pensioners out of £34,000 and jailed for three and a half years.
After dumping Kimmence she found happiness with West Ham’s Jarrod Bowen and they now share twin daughters Summer and Star.
Speaking about Jack on the latest episode of podcast Table Manners with Jessie & Lennie Ware, Danny said: “I didn’t really meet him.
“To be honest with you, it turned out he wasn’t what he was on the telly.”
He went on: “If you think about you in a villa, it’s a structured show. There’s no phones, there’s no distractions.
“How real can you be? It’s only when you get out. And so look, they made a go of it. It didn’t work out.”
Danny also blasted “cruel” producers for setting up Dani to believe Jack had cheated on her during Love Island’s Casa Amor.
Jack’s ex Ellie had entered as a bombshell to stir up trouble.
Danny said: “They did a really mean thing on it as well, where they sort of made it look like he was cheating on her. I was fuming. I was like I want numbers, I want f**** numbers.”
Speaking about the episodes, he added: “They pretended he was sleeping outside on a bed, and she was crying her eyes out, and I knew this was gonna happen to me.
“How could you do it to this poor child?
“So, yeah, really hard to watch, but she came out. She really just went with it.
“She got a clothing range. She’s such a beautiful kid.
“I’m so proud. I’m proud of all my babies.”
BITTER FEUD
While in the villa in 2018, it was revealed Jack had a poster of actor Danny on his bedroom wall growing up.
But things turned sour when Danny previously hit out at Jack, who has struggled with addiction and was arrested on suspicion of drug-driving.
Speaking to The Sun at the time, actor Danny branded the pen salesman a “f*****g t**t” and gushed over “amazing man” Jarrod.
He said: “My Dani has bought home some f*****g t**t. Sitting at my table on a Sunday, eating my leg of lamb.
“You can’t tell your children who to fall in love with. You have to go with the the f*****g flow.
“And then she bought home Jarrod Bowen. I earned him. He is a real amazing man.
“So yeah… if all my dreams could come true… all I f*****g want is for a man – or woman, whatever – to worship the f*****g ground my daughter walks on.”
Jack responded to Danny’s comments in 2023.
He hinted at a row that had already happened with Danny, but then quickly deleted his post and said he regretted responding.
In his deleted post, Jack had penned: “A t**t? I’ve never ate a leg of lamb at your house.
“If you have something to say about me, you know how to get hold of me, so don’t say things without expecting consequences because we know what happened last time don’t we Danny Dyer.”
He added in a video: “Do you know what? Normally I’d never ever ever ever react to what someone says about me in the press but the fact is, that certain person, I get asked about every single day no matter where I am.
“I get asked ‘Did you meet her dad? What’s he like?’ And every single time I say ‘What a lovely fella, what a lovely geezer.’
“And I say nothing but nice things, so for a fully grown man in his forties to say to the paper that I’m a ‘f*****g t**t I’m not having that.
“That’s pathetic. You can’t do things like that.”
Danny and his reality TV star daughter Dani at the Brit Awards[/caption]
Danny and footballer Jarrod are firm friends[/caption]
