We hope that ITV recognise how serious this issue is and that it must be learned from, considering they have asked Adam to return to the show.”
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A spokesperson said: “In the 2018 series of Love Island, we saw Rosie rightly call out Adam for his unacceptable behaviour, which included gaslighting and emotional abuse. Women’s Aid, however, expressed their concern about the reintroduction of Collard. “It’s a good thing for the programme to respect viewers’ media literacy and just acknowledge that there’s life beyond the Love Island bubble.” “There has always been a looming sense of the wider issues at play, and I think viewers have felt a bit patronised in the past when the show’s edit has downplayed those elements,” O’Neill said. Now, Collard’s arrival has bulldozed through it entirely. Liberty Poole began to suspect what viewers had already mooted: that her then-boyfriend Jake Cornish was more concerned with being “on a TV show” than finding love – he was definitely not here “for the right reasons”. The show’s reliance on the fourth wall – the invisible barrier separating reality stars from their audience – was first tested last year. So it feels like the right time for a former contestant to return,” she said. “This suggests the show is becoming more self-aware with regards to its place in the world. The promo for the current series was based around the phrase “We Own Love”, which O’Neill thinks was an attempt for Love Island to assert itself as the leader in a packed field of swimwear-clad dating shows. “This feels like the first year when the show has properly acknowledged itself as a legacy property,” she said. Lauren O’Neill, co-author of Vice UK’s weekly Love Island Power Ranking column, thinks this is a significant moment for the show. But now they have a man among them who has been there and done that, even if it seems he forgot to buy the T-shirt.
They may often talk about “the game” and “being here for the right reasons” (love, not money) but never explicitly refer to other motivators – fame, cash, Instagram followers – for entering the villa. Not all think that is necessarily a bad thing, however – Collard’s return is new territory, with contestants usually strictly forbidden from talking about the cameras, or what might await them beyond the show. The gamble paid off, with his reentrance quickly sparking tensions after a flurry of excitement and concern from the contestants who recognised him from his 33-day stint on the show in 2018.īut it has led some commentators to theorise that, like many pop culture success stories, Love Island is beginning to eat itself after devouring all its competitors.
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