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Woman’s Day Magazine New Zealand
|December 8, 2025
New Zealand duo Emma and Jaide are shaking things up
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Just when you thought Love Island Australia couldn't get any spicier, here comes “Hotel Amor”, the infamous mid-season twist where loyalties wobble and couples crumble – and this year, two Kiwi stunners are right in the eye of the storm!
Our very own Emma Drake and Jaide Dixon are the bombshell duo whose surprise arrival promises a whole lot of drama. But in an unexpected turn of events, instead of fighting over the boys or backstabbing to get ahead, the pair walked in, clocked each other's New Zealand accents and instantly became BFFs.
It could be the most wholesome thing to ever come out of Love Island's most notoriously messy week, laughs Emma, 27, adding, “We met and just clicked. We weren't the closest with everyone at first, but we had each other and that's all you really need.”
A self-confessed farm girl from Waiuku, South Auckland, Emma is now an eyelash technician on the Gold Coast and went on Love Island with a mission. “I genuinely wanted to find my person,” she says.
Meanwhile, Cromwell beauty Jaide, 23, who studied in Dunedin and Christchurch but now works in digital marketing in Sydney, applied on a whim, never expecting a callback. But once she landed in Hotel Amor, she knew it was the shakeup she needed.
This story is from the December 8, 2025 edition of Woman’s Day Magazine New Zealand.
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