Love Island 12

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For anyone still interested!

I don't think any of it is fixed. They definitely have to declare it if they are directing storylines. Plus, why would any of the production team care who wins?

Poor Alex. I don't get the hate at all but I suppose it's good that we're all drawn to different types of people.

The biggest thing for me is how popular he is in the house, even with the girls who pied him. Since they see him for the full 24hrs per day, instead of our one edited hour, I think he must be a pretty nice guy.

I really don't get the entitled comments. Haven't they all gone into the game thinking they're 'entitled' to couple up with someone, simply because that's the whole premise of the show.

I don't think Alex was being any more entitled than anyone else. He was the single one so obviously going to try with any new girls coming in to keep his place.

As for putting off girls who fancied him, I don't believe for one minute Ellie or Megan ever did, they just knew how popular he was and that he was their way in.

In the early stages he felt the pressure and tried doing what he felt was expected of him rather than just being himself, with Alex3 he was more relaxed right from the start, more himself and, I could be wrong, but I think she does like him.

Yes, let's all laugh at the obviously damaged young woman who has worked on the fringes of the sex industry and slept with two men in the villa, being called a cock sucker, by a woman who professed to be her friend and who knows her background as she came in late.

Yes, let's all laugh it up. It's a real rib tickler.

Why was Alex paid to go in?

Of course the producers can manipulate who stays and goes? They know who is popular, who booosts ratings and can edit accordingly. They don’t give a shit about the individuals and I can say with certainty they can manipulate the ‘winners’ of LI.

I agree they manipulate it based on who is popular and thus people want to see, simply because they show what they think will get the most viewers, not because they give a flying toss which of them win. It's all about viewing numbers.

Camilla said she was paid last year.
No.idea how much.

They all get paid £200 a week to cover rent and stuff back home, I wonder if they lure anyone in with any more of if it’s just the promise of magazine deals and appearances for a short time which is why they do it

I think they should do a 50+ Love Island. Show all these for youngsters what's round the corner.

They'd know they were compatible by watching the telly together, comparing aches, and medication chats.

I'm not sure the bikini culture would transfer?

I'm 50+ before anyone jumps in

Try being paid, do they approach certain people? How do they find them? Know about them? Presumably all the contestants put themselves forward? If they put volunteer why would the producers offer to pay them/ or why would they expect to get paid?

Actually unique apparently you are nearly right. Alex is paid, they all are. A flat rate of 200£ per week they are there.

I don’t buy into the Megan is a poor victim. No one forced her to get into the sex industry or sleep with two men in the house or get loads of surgery, she clearly had choices in life & I assume she wants fame & fortune hence the 3k braclet.
If she is so damaged & self aware then she should not have gone into the house. If Megan has a problem with her friend calling her a cocksucker then she can take it up with her. I won’t apologise for finding it funny though.

I'm assuming they all get paid a fee of sorts, but they had to pay for their own flights to Majorca.

They receive applications from some, and contact others to suggest they apply. They find them due to their presence on social media. They are paid a nominal amount, £200pw sounds about right, for expenses.

I think we may have to agree to disagree missbrick, i always ask why a woman as young as Megan goes into the sex industry and has so much work done. She is very non confrontational and very easily led.

I'm not asking you to apologise for finding it funny she was publicly abused. Simply I'm saying I don't find it funny and I think you will find most people will think the same and Ellie will be one of the first out.

I don't get the big deal about sleeping with 2 people tbh haven't they been in there for about 6 weeks now? Wes slept with two people also.
If one of my single mates slept with 2 people in a month I wouldn't bat an eyelid but maybe I am just a harlot haha.

You can apply to be on the show, but as with other reality shows contestants some are headhunted. Alex was headhunted him family have said. Camilla from last year was also headhunted.

I also don't have an issue with who Megan slept with, Ellie's comment is simply the usual slut shaming we have come to expect.

Who was the least popular couple on the app vote?

Votes could be messed up with only 10 mins to vote. That in itself is messy
Much prefer BB when you have a few days warning building up to a vote off.
There's just no suspense

Charlie and Ellie were bottom on the App @daisy

I have no issue with how many people Megan has slept with in the villa or outside the villa. As others have said, Wes has slept with 2 in Love Island as well. However, I don’t think she is as loved up as she is making out. She was happy to drop Wes only a week ago. I think she’s savvy on getting exposure and has decided now is the time to play the loved up role. Happy if proved wrong in the coming months.

She said how stripping paid so much more than legal secretary job and she has made her choices that she wants to make money over other considerations. love island, as for most of them, is a pursuit for money.

Ellie strikes me as the kind of girl who'd smack you in a nightclub if you looked at her the wrong way. Manicunicorn this totally sums her up!

@Daisydreaming, agree with you about Alex and Alex3. Also I think if Idris or Kieran had more wit and conversation skills she would have chosen one of them. Don’t think she was keen on any of them, but Alex at least she could talk to!

I wonder why they do such short voting windows. Maybe there is a cost against it or something,

So Alex3 and Meg not only have known each other for years but snogged in some music video?

God its all so incestuous. How many of them knew each other prior?