Love Island 2022 - Welcome to Antigone and Charlie...we think...

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I'll delete this if someone else has got one going.

Just watched tonight's episode, here are my thoughts

Luca was spot on about the guys fancying the girls more than the girls fancy the guys.

Whilst she is gorgeous, I'm not getting this Daniela making moves on Andrew thing. Although it would give Tash the get out if she wants it. Feel we haven't seen the end of this. Liked Tash's patchwork bikini.

RE Gemma & Jaques when they were dating. I don't like it when girls keep tabs on their boyfriend when they go out on nights out. When did they date again ?

The dances

Did they have any music, must have been even more awkward without it.

Girls by the end all the boys clearly had erections. And not surprised that they won.
Daneka- looked hot, she knows how to move

ES- she and Davide are going to end up together.
Maybe not in the villa but they will and they'll go the distance.

Indiya - I know his heart rate thing said otherwise but Dami was definitely into her dance

Gemma- considering that wasn't really her thing, Gemma smashed that.

Tash- Lucas's M25 comment 🤣. Best dancer

Antigone- props for cheesiest outfit

Paige- just looked fit

Boys

Dami- tacky scientist didn't do anything for me. My science head was just thinking of the h&s
Luca makes a fit greatest showman
Jacques dread to think where that truncheon has been

Jay won the left nothing to the imagination award
Charlie "posh boy" butler ... original. All round awkward. He did the work ffs.
Davide Antonio Banderas eat your heart out.

Andrew was just a bit odd somehow.

Some of the moves the boys did were a bit inappropriate for the bedroom let
alone a bit of decking.

Hope they didn't need to return the costumes to a hire place

Biometrics are a very interesting basis for an argument. I want to know if they were proper heart rate monitors or ones invented by the producers for extra drama.

Catching up..
I think everything's been covered 😌
Other than Paige kissing Tasha.

I think ES sounds like Amanda Holden!

Jacques is a nasty piece of work but Paige is way too smitten to see it.

Tash, I find awful. Like a spoilt child when things don’t go her way. She’d be a nightmare girlfriend imo. And <whispers> I think she’s actually quite plain looking.

RE Gemma & Jaques when they were dating. I don't like it when girls keep tabs on their boyfriend when they go out on nights out. When did they date again ?

It was 2-3 years ago, when she was still at school 😳. So she was really young, and tbf she said last night that she was like that because she didn't trust him.

Yes Amanda I thought she had a familiar sound!

I wonder if Paige is a bit switched on and knew that airtime being with jacques would bring?

Agree Tasha - just seen as a bombshell as she tall, skinny and blonde. I cannot see her as attractive knowing her personality and mistreatment of Andrew.

Danica has realised how irrelevant she is at the moment and is just trying to stir up some drama with Andrew

Tasha had this strop for a reason, to have it ready as an excuse when she meets a nice newcomer and dumps Andrew

Andrew is so lovely, yes he’s a bit too smitten but he is a genuinely nice guy

Same here, I have the sex appeal of a slug 😂 I did attempt to impress my DH with my own Love Island-esque dance which involved a lot of hair whipping in his face. He was not impressed.

Just catching up.

Jacques is unbelievably awful. Why has he suddenly decided to get in Luca's ear about Gemma? He's just a nasty, controlling, jealous bastard giving me predator vibes. There's something really unsettling about him.

Paige needs to stray in Casa Amor.

As for Gemma 'keeping tabs' she was 16 and I suspect entirely right in her thoughts. I don't doubt for a second Jacques would cheat.

I have to question Danica's taste in men. Have ffwrd through the dancing, it's just so cringe.

Argh I've lost my message! I copied it because I got the dreaded page expired message from MN but now I don't know how to paste it! Any ideas? Have a Samsung Galaxy phone.

I've had a look at Twitter - it's really disturbing and depressing how many people are saying Paige is mardy/psycho/weirdo, and "poor Jacques" opening up, only for her to be territorial etc. Ugh.

I can’t get my head around the dynamics of a relationship where the guy is going out drinking every night (because you know, he legally can) and his 16/17 year old girlfriend, who is too young to legally drink alcohol, is at home giving him stick. Like who is getting anything out of that?

Even though Jacques isn’t coming across well it was awful the way Paige went over to him for a chat after the dances and literally plonked herself right on to of his groin. She’s coming across pretty needy considering only about 2 nights ago she was enjoying Jay’s attention.
Same re Tasha, sad to see how needy and insecure she is when she was happy to be tempted from Andrew only recently. Andrew seems absolutely lovely, not at all what I expected when he first cam in.
im mainly here for Ekin and Davide now, romance of the year!

That's what i sort of thought

Which made me even more confused. I know there's a bit of an age gap. But that sort of behaviour / insecurity is surely for older relationships

Jacques is the most vile man in there. He was rude and aggressive not only to Paige but also Gemma, walking away calling her an effing clown or something.

He is getting a lot of support online though weirdly!

That's my point. I sort of get it when it's an AIBU on mumsnet but not from a teenager.

And I of course think it's a bit weird that a man who can legally drink etc is dating a 16 year old

I'm finding Tasha's petulant displays really boring. I like Andrew, he seems like a nice normal lad. Jacques is awful, I hope Paige realises that sooner rather than later. I think Davide and Ekin Su are funny together but not great as a couple.

She didn’t plonk herself on him. Jacques carried her over there like that and sat down with her on him like that. And then proceeded to be really aggy with her and told her to fuck off when their faces were inches apart. This guy is a nasty piece of work. Paige needs to run a mile.

If I were Paige I'd pick Jay now (assuming the opportunity arises) to get rid of Jacques. I'm not sure what we gain by recoupling now with an even amount of people.

I think Tasha is in trouble, Danica might get to pick Andrew and given what a p.i.t.a Tasha is being I wouldn't blame him for just enjoying the opportunity.
Was Gemma just licking everyone? But Luca, no that's not love, that's lust.
Or as @Anyfeckinusername succinctly put it "the girls are morto for the boys but the boys are lusty for the girls… it’s like two separate challenges"

Massive cringe that the girl's costume crotches were so high cut leaving a nice tan line tache, Jay had great tan lines too!

But have this lot never seen this programme before? We all know the heart rate thing is balls, and the producers could write any old shite on that card! Also, a bit of jumping up and down on the spot when your 'partner' comes out will get the heart rate up enough....proper scientific innit.

I agree that Tasha was just pissed off because she didn't raise anyone's heartbeat. I also get the impression she maybe thinks she's out of Andrew's league as she's had so much attention and that's another reason why it annoyed her that she didn't 'win' his heartrate.

Jacques is showing his true colours now, so quick to aggression and dismissiveness, he's definitely the kind that would have a row with you, then go out all night and ignore your texts/turn his phone off just to upset you. Then act like you're a psycho in the morning for questioning where he's been.

yes, I think similar things every year - that the age bracket of the islanders are (often) lumped together as being "lads" who are awful and players and that people should lock up their daughters, yet every year they prove that the minority are dreadful, and that mostly they're really nice guys who want some reassurance and genuinely want a decent partner.

Andrew was so lovely to Tasha, especially amidst a culture where everyone tries very hard to play it cool…he is there, with his heart on sleeve, doing everything he can to reassure her.

I don’t see the chemistry between Davide & Ekin Su.

Agree that Jaques is vile, and I hope that Paige has the strength to leave him (bonus points for doing it for own self worth, and not just because someone else turns her head).

Has there ever been two recouplings in a row with even numbers?

What’s the point in a recoupling if numbers are equal, I thought at the end of last nights episode when jay and Charlie was saying it all comes down to Ekin was because one of them would be leaving if not picked but seems that’s not the case

The cynic in me thinks production is hoping Ekin Su and Davide will pair up.

Them there'll be a vote for least popular couple (s)

Together ES and Davide would be safe from either the public and islander vote.

I can see one or both of them doing wrong in Casa Amor. It would make good TV