To think Love Island is immensely skanky and shallow

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What is the point of a reality show where the sole purpose is to exhbit the morals of an alley cat and get it on with complete strangers in order to win.

I do not understand why it's so popular. It's just a load of wannabes.

I wonder what people would think if it was their children putting out on TV to earn a few quid?

YANBU!

My teenagers watch it.

Makes me weep for humanity fuck I’m OLD

they are adults. nothing to do with their parents.

Just don't watch it then. Simple!

they are adults. nothing to do with their parents

PMSL. can you honestly say that if your children, whatever their age, were on this show, you'd be proud?

I wouldnt be proud but it wouldnt be my decision.

I am 47, but have 2 friends that rave about it.

I watched 5 minutes of it last week - felt depressed, despairing and slightly ashamed.

And questioned the intelligence of my friends.

My teenagers wouldn't lower themselves to watch this shite.

"Unfortunately my teen DS Is watching (I have absolutely no idea why)"

You really have no idea why? Attractive young Women, wearing next to nothing, occasionally they give a flash of boob/undercarriage and they make out/shag on television. Why wouldn't a teen lad watch it?

"PMSL. can you honestly say that if your children, whatever their age, were on this show, you'd be proud?"

If it had been a struggle for them to get there and they achieved what they set out to do, then I would feel proud of them for doing that. I certainly wouldn't be ashamed.

Charlotte's and Marnie's (Geordie Shore) Mums have been very supportive of their Daughters (I don't know about the rest). I can remember Colleen Nolan making comments like that on Big Brother. She had nothing to say when Marnie and her Mum were on Loose Women, though.

There are lots of jobs that I wouldn't like my children to do, some connected with "respectable" business etc.

I don't watch LI, I think it would be creepy for me to do so, tbh. Two of my children are older than the contestants, I don't want to watch Young Adults doing what they are doing.

I agree that the behaviour is the same as some people's Uni days/Malaga/Kavos holidays etc. The only difference is that those getting involved end up with something more pleasant than a STI or accidental pregnancy.

Thankfully teen dd doesn’t watch it.

But it does worry me that teens will watch this programme and think this is where the bar is set.....in terms of looks, grooming, plastic surgery, relationships.

I admit I haven’t watched the programme and could be talking shit. But I’ve seen a newspaper article and that was enough.

EdWinchester, can we not go down the intelligence route. It's offecive to anyone who had Learning Difficulties and/or lower intelligence than average.

Having lower intelligence doesn't mean that you'll like, or are a certain type of person etc.

Or do you mean that you are bigoted and have certain views about people with learning difficulties?

I hate everything about it.

I did actually watch 5 minutes of it the other night in response to those who've said 'how can you critisise something you've never watched'

It was worse than expected.

It's beyond shallow.

It really is just about doing whatever it takes to become famous.

Passing partners around just for the sake of it.

Grim.

I watch every reality crap going so im not the best judge but i do feel like lone island is a really good social experiment and i enjoy that aspect of it. It is interesting to see how people react in certain situations and there is always a case of don't judge a book by its cover. Last year Chris entered the villa to a bad reception. Three days later he was practically the nations sweetheart.

I swear some people would shoot their own pet dog on live tv if they got to be a sleb out of it

For Christ's sake Birdsgottafly, yes excluding all those with learning difficulties that are glued to Love Island, I will reserve the right to judge my NT friends that watch this shite. And I will judge them as numpties.

This year’s looking too crap to bother but I watched last year’s.

It’s not much different to B.B. - at least the weather is good, the view is nice and everyone’s fairly easy on the eye.

I watched a couple of series of B.B. and I can still recall the nausea (tho not the precise cause).

Agree completely with Ghoul.
We haven’t really evolved much further from amphitheatre entertainment .

It makes me sad that teens of today might go out into world thinking this kind of shit is the norm.

In fact, what makes me even more sad is it probably is the norm now.

I swear some people would shoot their own pet dog on live tv if they got to be a sleb out of it

Ffs! Don’t give the producers of this shite ideas!!!

Of course it is 😂 They’re not looking for love, they’re looking for fame and money.

By selling their bodies.

And people say it's not akin to prostitution.

I watch it with my teens. The people are mostly awful but we still find it enormously entertaining.

It is actually quite useful as a teaching tool, my dc are definitely learning how not to behave in a relationship. We've had so many great conversations - we are boggling at why professional people would choose to go on it, the desperation, the willingness to accept shoddy mistreatment, the preoccupation with appearance.

Obviously we don't watch it for the psychology, that's just a Happy by-product.

You can sneer away, it's so easy to sneer at, but some comments here are plain wrong. No sex in this series. Some contestants with serious jobs and - presumably - high IQs. Some of them are even quite endearing if you persevere!

Ex On the Beach was a low point in my life. It was when I realised that I must be getting old.
I only saw the trailer with your man standing there half naked, great muscles, wonderful sixpack .. then they zoomed at his face and it was like staring at a blank sheet of paper. No single brain cell alive behind that handsome face. He was a biped tomcat in mating season, only with much lower intellect.
And I just knew I can't find a man attractive, not even in. a very platonic and shallow way if he behaves like his brain was zombie's dinner.
So if Love Island is similar, I can't watch it lest I will be left despairing for future of mankind. The idea that these people copulate- each to their own but they sometimes breed. That's bad.

I never understand why the girls all say they want someone nice and kind, 'not a bad boy or a player like what I usually go for'. Then they do indeed go for the players, time and time again, over and over, no shred of self awareness.

And the boys say they want a nice girl, then choose based entirely on appearance.

And even morally superior people on here are not above judging someone on appearance - think Alex was scathingly described as 'too pink' upthread, because he's fair-skinned and has stayed away from the fake tan.

Ah well. It is indeed all utter vacuous nonsense.