Mystery surrounds AFL heartthrob Bailey Smith after he blocked several Love Island stars: ‘I’ve never met him’

A Love Island star has revealed that AFL heartthrob Bailey Smith blocked her on social media, leading to a peculiar discovery regarding the sports star.

Tina Provis, who featured on the third and fourth seasons of the Aussie dating show, took to TikTok last week to share her confusion over why the Geelong Cats midfielder spurned her.

‘Why am I blocked by Bailey Smith?’ the 29-year-old asked her fans.

‘All I know is that I’m blocked on Instagram,’ she said, explaining that she had tried to click on a video that included Bailey on the social media platform and she couldn’t access it.

She added: ‘I’ve been blocked for years.’ 

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However, what made the social media move even more confusing is that Tina wasn’t the only reality star to receive the cold shoulder from the 24-year-old on Instagram. 

‘The last time I heard from some other people who have done Love Island, they’re blocked as well,’ she said. 

‘I don’t know if he’s still blocking the new seasons but I know at some point this man has looked me up and blocked me.’

‘I’ve never met this man, I don’t know this guy.’

She finished off the clip: ‘But I just wanna know. Bailey Smith, if you’re out there. Why did you block me?’

This isn’t the first time a Love Island alum has taken to TikTok to share a similar revelation about Bailey Smith.

Former Islander Andre Coutinho shared a clip on the platform in 2023 revealing that he too had discovered he had been blocked by the footy star.

‘I found out months ago that Bailey Smith blocked me on Instagram,’ he told the camera. 

Upon realising, he went to his other 2022 cast-mates, including Maddie Wilcox and Jordan Dowsett, both of whom confirmed that he had blocked them on Instagram too. 

‘He might’ve thought season 4 was trash,’ Andre quipped about the odd discovery.

Bailey recently revealed that he was dealing with an avalanche of stress that saw him spend six weeks getting professional help in a mental health facility.

The sportsman has had a torrid 12 months as he battled through a serious knee injury. 

He also endured a relationship break-up and dealt with the fallout from his switch to Geelong after spending the first five years of his career with the Western Bulldogs.

Smith confessed he turned to alcohol while he ‘fell into a bad spiral’ after doing his knee and breaking up with his girlfriend of two years, Gemma Dawkins, last August.

His high-profile split with the Dogs added fuel to the fire as fans turned on him and drove a wedge between him and his old teammates while the injury made it impossible for him to use footy as a ‘mask’.

‘When you have to sit with yourself and be your own source of entertainment, fulfillment, stimulation, that’s when I had to look inward and realise, “S**t, I am pretty f***ed up and I need to sort my s**t out,’ he told the Real Stuff podcast.

‘I got into some bad ways going flat-out after my knee [injury] and getting on the p**s and being an idiot, which we all do, but that’s my coping mechanism.

‘I really had to look inward … that’s when I found out that f***, there’s nothing much to look inward here, other than a bit of a s**t storm.’

Adding that he ‘lost a lot of relationships’ over his move to Geelong, the Cats star revealed he spent the six weeks at the facility seeing psychologists every day and meditating.

‘There were multiple times where I thought [this is] rock bottom, but then you find out rock bottom keeps going for a bit.’