Their split was revealed after 15 months of dating last week.
And Love Island's Mike Boateng has revealed that lockdown was 'tough' on his relationship with Priscilla Anyabu, 27, as he opened up about their shock split.
In a new interview, the former police officer, 26, admitted that he also felt 'pressure' to represent 'black love', amid fan excitement of a black couple forming on the show.
Relationship woes: Love Island's Mike Boateng has revealed that lockdown was 'tough' on his relationship with Priscilla Anyabu, 27, as he opened up about their shock split
Discussing the end of their romance, he told Capital XTRA's Will Njobvu: 'We’re not together anymore. It was never really a bad breakup, in fact it wasn’t a bad breakup at all, we just had a mature conversation.
'I think we were together for 15 months, and like any couple, a lot of things happen, nothing bad where someone cheated on somebody or anything like that.
'We just kind of, lockdown was tough for us, didn’t really have a lot of space away from each other, we had a grown up conversation, like adults, saying in order to save our friendship, maybe we have to take time away as a couple.
'You never know what’s going to happen in life, but for now yeah, Mike is single.'
All over: In a new interview, the former police officer, 26, admitted that he also felt 'pressure' to represent 'black love', amid fan excitement of a black couple forming on the show
Opening up on the point they realised their relationship was no longer working amid spending so much time together in lockdown, he continued: 'That was the period that made it tough for us, because we were together all the time. We never really had no space away from each other.'
Meanwhile, the reality star told how he felt 'pressure' to live up to fans expectations and delight over their 'black love' romance.
After he formed the first black pairing on the show with Leanne Amaning, Mike went on to find love with model Priscilla, with fans championing their romance and willing it to go the distance.
Discussing the pressure he felt, he went on: 'There was a lot of pressure as well, the whole Black love thing, everyone wanted it. I’m not going to lie, even though we said we didn’t feel the pressure, we felt the pressure, so it was tough.'
Split: 'We just kind of, lockdown was tough for us, didn’t really have a lot of space away from each other, we had a grown up conversation, like adults, saying in order to save our friendship, maybe we have to take time away as a couple'
'But like I said, I think around December time last year we had a real conversation with each other, like “yeah we’re going to do this, if not, then let’s make sure we move on with our lives” and that’s what happened.
'We broke up around December, we got back
