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Love Island 16

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MrsFassy · 24/07/2018 21:41

Here we go again

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SmileSweetly · 27/07/2018 11:32

I don't think it's fair or right to speculate about some else's sexuality...the fact of the matter is, he clearly wasn't looking for love on LI, didn't make any effort and seemed to view the whole experience as an extended holiday.

RoseWhiteTips · 27/07/2018 11:34

A TV career? Nothing would surprise me now.

RainySeptember · 27/07/2018 11:34

"and fought with eyal over Megan when his subsequent behaviour shows he's never been remotely interested in Megan either."

I thought his heart rate was highest for Megan in the lap dance challenge?

Why would he show any interest once she'd rejected him and coupled up with Wes?

Destinysdaughter · 27/07/2018 11:35

Did Alex go to an all boys public school? His behaviour and awkwardness around women remind me of guys I’ve met who went to that kind of school and struggle to relate to women.

Sharpcattlegridheavyhat · 27/07/2018 11:37

He really doesn’t deserve all this vitriol!

Bluntness100 · 27/07/2018 11:37

As much as i can't stand Ellie, I can now understand why she went right off him and no woman apart from Alexandra has went there.

In addition, He was condescending and rude to Ellie, there is no two ways about it.

You can watch behaviour and take one thing from it, then learn more about someone, as we are with Alex and start to see previous events In a new light because we have more information.

Alex on th face of it is a tall handsome successful nice man. He's popular with the guys and was popular with the public. Yet no woman wants to go near him. None, nada. They think they do then they meet him and realise there is no chemistry there. None at all apart from Alexandra who he has rejected twice.

I think that tells us something about what these women are experiencing with him.

And blaming the women isn't ok. They can't all be at fault.

And bottom line is I don't think it can be disputed he's being using them when he can to stay in.

Slept with 30 women and had a threesome my arse.

RainySeptember · 27/07/2018 11:37

"He's in there as a platform to get a tv career."

Like everyone else in there then. Are you seriously suggesting that any of them went on to genuinely find love? There are easier ways. They're all there for their 15mins of fame and a shot at a tv career.

Although he's apparently told the hospital that he's returning, part time initially.

TatianaLarina · 27/07/2018 11:37

I agree Bluntness.

RoseWhiteTips · 27/07/2018 11:38

mooncuplanding

I'm surprised The Sun haven't tracked down some ex-lovers of Alex's

I imagine they’ve tried! Can’t be easy to find something that doesn’t exist, though, tbf.

RainySeptember · 27/07/2018 11:43

"And blaming the women isn't ok."

Who's blamed the women?

Laura and Megan both rejected him straight away for Wes.

Ellie pretended she liked him to stay in the villa (big crime now apparently).

He tried to get to know Charlie, Grace and Alexandra but it didn't work out, no blame anywhere.

It's not blame to tell Alexandra that he can't give her what she wants, when he's talking about taking it a day at a time and she's talking about what's next on the outside, meeting parents etc,they're just incompatible.

RainySeptember · 27/07/2018 11:44

" Can’t be easy to find something that doesn’t exist,"

Several stories in the press, some linked or referred to on here.

Bluntness100 · 27/07/2018 11:45

Are you seriously suggesting that any of them went on to genuinely find love?

Yes, I think Laura did and I think the others have been at least semi genuine in their relationships, with the exclusion of Paul and Georgia with sam.

I don't like to see someone deliberately hurt and lied , never mind on a show that millions watch and I simply cannot get my head round how anyone could watch Alex go cold on Alexandra, then make sure he got her back, then woo her again, then sit and lie to her in that car, then dump her and defend it.

Sorry, team Alexandra here and if any bloke treated a friend of mine like that I'd think he was equally a shitty person.

TatianaLarina · 27/07/2018 11:45

Some people get marriage and relationships out of the show so it’s not accurate to say no-one is in there for an that, although they may be there for the money too.

Alex may struggling with being a junior doctor - which many people do to be fair - and sees TV as a way out.

TatianaLarina · 27/07/2018 11:49

Several stories in the press, some linked or referred to on here.

None good. In the one I mentioned he did the same as he did to Alexandra.

Bizarretortoise · 27/07/2018 11:50

If Alex deliberately wanted to hurt Alexandra, he would have pretended until the end and then dumped her.
Honestly with some of the posters here it’s like Lord of the Flies. I hope you never find yourselves in such an intense situation where you don’t fit in. Typical behaviour where someone is targeted for being different. Don’t like him, don’t like his behaviour, whatever, but he is absolutely not deserving of some of the hideous things pps have said about him.

RainySeptember · 27/07/2018 11:51

And yes I'm aware that I'm coming across a bit like Alex's mum now.

I can't help supporting an underdog, and I don't think he's been significantly worse than anyone else in there, a damn sight better than most, yet seems to be getting more hate on here than anyone else.

It can't really be his behaviour. We've seen arrogant and patronising and exaggerated feelings to stay in from other islanders, even gaslighting that prompted Women's Aid to step in, but none of those people unleashed all of this.

Maybe a bit of reverse snobbery because he's a doctor with a posh accent, outrage that none of the girls appealed to him and he had the temerity to reject the only one who was really into him.

Bluntness100 · 27/07/2018 11:54

If Alex deliberately wanted to hurt Alexandra, he would have pretended until the end and then dumped her

Oh right, because making sure she couldn't get with Paul and dumping her straight after the date was better then dragging it out. Sure I'd agree with that, could have been worse he could have hurt her much more.

And rainy, we get you support his treatment of women. I'm not sure there is much more to be said. We will need to agree to disagree. You think what he did to her was all good. I don't. You need to get over the fact he's a doctor. Really I know several, they really are just normal people and not gods.

Shortstuff08 · 27/07/2018 11:55

If Alex deliberately wanted to hurt Alexandra, he would have pretended until the end and then dumped her.

I think he did it hoping it would cultivate the image he wants to put across. He hoped people would see him as caring, honest and upfront.

I do agree some people are being awful. But i dont like his behaviour. And he hasn't found himself in an intense situation. He put himself in this position.

RainySeptember · 27/07/2018 11:58

Bluntness are you mad? I was married to a doctor and know plenty.

You say his 'treatment of women' like he's a serial adulterer.

What I'm actually saying is 'he's no worse than any of the others'.

Bizarretortoise · 27/07/2018 12:01

Stop projecting stuff onto him - you don’t know at all what his motivations are.
What if he is gay, or has Aspergers, or any of the stuff pps have said here? What if he’s not been able to deal with that to date?
It’s one thing to not like someone’s behaviour - he’s hardly covered himself in glory here - but people are reacting like he’s his behaviour’s unnatural. It’s not, it’s just different from the norm in there.

RainySeptember · 27/07/2018 12:01

"making sure she couldn't get with Paul "

Wasn't that more about her throwing herself at Paul and him not particularly liking it? He chose Laura. Alex may have hypnotised him into it, anything is possible it seems.

Bizarretortoise · 27/07/2018 12:04

Exactly Rainy. Perhaps he should have shagged her and then dumped her like Wes did with Laura. Oh yes, he’s far worse than Wes, or Josh, or Megan, or Eyal, or Adam. Good god, I would hate my kids to be treated by potential partners the way they’ve treated them in there. Far worse to call off a fledgling relationship with someone because he doesn’t like her as much as she likes him.
Let’s lynch him now,

Bluntness100 · 27/07/2018 12:07

Rainy you keep posting about him being a doctor, his accent, what type of women he will like, and he clearly is worse than many of the others, but not all of them. Being in the gutter with others isn't a justifation.

And you saw operation rekindle, wes convincing Paul to go for Alex. He was fully aware of the implications of him picking Alexandra.

I genuinely don't understand why no matter how badly he behaves you defend it and basically blame the woman,,oh it's how she dresses, oh she came on too strong. It can't be him, he's a doctor!

All I can think is you know this man in real life, because no matter what he does you rush to his defence shouting the woman did something to deserve it and he's a doctor.

RainySeptember · 27/07/2018 12:08

Well now I know he's also to blame for the behaviour of other islanders, in a sinister Machiavellian way, I just worry about what else he's to blame for. Brexit? Global warming?

Bluntness100 · 27/07/2018 12:10

He was a clear part of operation rekindle. Let's be honest. I get you wish to defend it and say it wasn't him then either, but we watched it.

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