Love Island 2021 Thread 1

[DavidTheDog]

Coming Monday 28 June.

Just reading this about the improved support contestants will be receiving - counselling sessions and social media support. Love Island: ITV announces new contestant welfare measures

Woo hoo! Can't wait!

More excited about these threads restarting though than the actual programme!

🙌🙌 can’t wait!!

Introducing Brad

Introducing Chloe

Introducing Aaron

Aaron's definition of "works with royalty" seems to be different to mine. And I'm sending a message out to Chloe's future 40 year old, don't worry, we all said stupid things when we were younger. Brad? Er, nothing really to say.

Checking in cannot wait for lots of reality tv drama!

Would you let your 13 almost 14 daughter watch LI?

There's a lot of variation at that age isn't there? I can imagine 13/14 year olds that I would let watch it, but I'd want to be watching too so that I can discuss some of the issues that arise.

I love Love Island! I can’t wait for the new series. It’s just the escapism I need right now. Everything on Netflix is about families on the run from Cartels, zombies, or brutal murder documentaries.

I want to watch hot young people pulling each other for vacuous chats and not knowing what Europe is.

Jumping in, I also can’t wait :)

I cant wait either:)

It’s just the escapism I need right now. Everything on Netflix is about families on the run from Cartels, zombies, or brutal murder documentaries.

Absolutely this!

@Spaceman1

Would you let your 13 almost 14 daughter watch LI?

I watched it with my 13 year old step-daughter in 2018. She was mature enough to understand it and we discussed some of the poorer behaviour (Adam's gaslighting of Rosie, for example). I think as long as you watch it together, you can pick up and discuss anything that's close to the bone.

@Zampa that's good advice, watching it together is probably the best idea and stressing that it is light hearted entertainment and not to be taken too seriously!

I watch with DD and have done for the last 3 series, so she was about that age when we started. Like a pp it opened up a lot of chat for us and raised some interesting points for discussion.

Once Dd was around 13 I let her watch whatever.
She was never into Love Island, but a huge Game of Thrones fan.

Signing in! I love a bit of LI escapism.

I like Whitmore...

Introducing Sharon

Introducing Hugo

Sharon's intelligent and assertive. Hugo's a teacher and inventor of what he likes to call the "half-night stand".

Another trailer

If you're watching this with your kids you could point out the difference in what the women and men are shown wearing.

I like the look of Sharon, she seems vaguely normal and sensible?

Assume “Mr Hammond” isn’t planning on going back to teaching after this because he is going to get the piss taken out of him relentlessly

Introducing Shannon

Introducing Jake

Shannon's an ex-glamour model turned influencer. Jake is my favourite. Jake likes Hobnobs. I reckon Jake will win. DP is scathing of Jake's inability to wear a shirt.

Interesting article in The Guardian today. A cruelty-free Love Island? Impossible

The reality show struck gold by appealing to viewers’ worst instincts. Now it wants to protect contestants’ wellbeing. Can it do both?

Jake sounds fun but I do not want to see him sucking anyone's toe.

Just read first page of thread then went off to Twitter and see Laura's Twitter handle is "thewhitmore" wasn't Caroline known as "the flack" so Laura's just seems misplaced here and a bit copycat/wannabe.
I agree she takes herself too seriously. Doesn't want anyone to know private life stuff but invited Gogglebox into her home

I don't know anything about Laura Whitmore (beyond Gogglebox), so I'm not sure why she's attracting negative comments.

Introducing Faye

Faye is looking for a man who will "literally rip her a new arsehole".

Introducing Toby

Toby has commitment issues, likes casual sex with no "taking it to the next step". He gets accused of being a typical footballer, but he's a Nice Guy.

Sorry if anyone's mentioned this up thread.. but I'm so surprised a young PE teacher has signed up for this as it'll likely end his career surely?

I don't know if anyone else is on TikTok but it's been full of his teenage students (girls) all absolutely loving the fact that he told them he was going away to 'London' and they get to see him on Love Island..

@covetingthepreciousthings Depends how he acts I suppose. Dr Alex went back to being, well, a doctor. Anna went back to work as a pharmacist during covid. They both have tough codes of conduct. That or he'll leave teaching for a while and make piles of money. The teenage girls on TikTok are embarrassing, the ones I've seen just seem to be daft dances over a caption like 'when your teacher is on love island', like it's not even clever or funny? Maybe I'm just old.

I used to like Laura Whitmore and was pleased when she got the gig but she's become very smug. Not a fan any more.