Love Island Winter 2023 thread 3. D'do one Ron, Ron, D'do one Ron

[TellingBone]

Title courtesy @CarpyDiem

Have at it!

Imo the issue with the majority of women in LI this year, is the man they liked initially wasn’t interested in them but instead of saying that, they hinted they might be interested. The women were then shocked and humiliated when they chose someone else. Now they are settling for someone to stay in the villa.

I so agree with this! And I also think Olivia barely tolerates pretending she's into Kai. She's still into Tom.

Just checked Coco's insta....the usual stuff...went to dubai (why do people still aspire to go to dubai!) to 'work on herself', bit of itchy looking nylon undie promo for PLT and of course the obligatory sex toy promos. At what point do you ditch all this wannabe stuff and go and actually work?

Oh def...hope there's a Tom-a-like in Casa 😂

I was a Shaq fan but he’s gone way down in my estimations… his rant at Ron was OTT and much as Ron has been a twat it looked like Shaq was freezing him out / being very cliquey with the other boys whilst being pretty smug about his relationship with Tanya.

I also got quite menacing vibes when he was talking to Tanya - the repeated ‘don’t ever do that again’ would be a massive red flag for me. He wouldn’t even look at her while they were talking. Surprised as he always seemed quite level headed and like he treated her well.

I still don’t understand why Ellie got hardly any interest. I think she was one of the prettiest in there, but every year there are one or 2 girls who seem gorgeous to me but never seem to appeal to the boys. Must be very demoralising for them. Danica last year - I know she was full on but anyone would think she was hideous from the lack of attention she got!

Will is doing my head in now. He seems to get camper by the day and seems desperate to be everyone’s friend. I’m sure he’s a nice guy but he’s so performative.

I can’t figure how much Will really likes Jessie. When they are talking, there is an expression on his face sometimes that I can’t read, after he asks her about her feelings for him. At one point I thought it was suspicion but then wasn’t sure.

He just doesn’t seem to gaze at her in the way you do when really smitten with someone.

If he had been given choices in the beginning , would he actually have chosen her ?

I think Shaq was right (Tanya should have that conversation alone not with Lara ) but the way he spoke to her was controlling and threatening. I could not put up with that.

I like Shaq, but he was wrong to pick on Ron when others weren't washing the pots either. I'm not keen on Tanya, but she handled it extremely well last night.

I don't have a lot of hope for the contestants in Casa Amor after last year. Not a great deal of temptation.

I think applicants are reluctant to do Casa because they know they have to work so hard to get into the main villa and when they do they normally get dumped a couple of days later when the OG's realise they 'still have feelings'

Danica said she was offered Casa a couple of times but always said no. Olivia first applied in 2019 so I wonder how many of them will only do it if an OG or early bombshell

There were three boys not clearing up. He called all of them. Two came.

The task wasn't over until the clearing up was done. Not all needed to be actively washing/clearing, just like not all were cooking at once. But they were all there - not leaving the workers working and sitting with the girls.

Ron was wrong. He should have stayed with the boys until the task was done.

100%
The problem is that back in the day you could throw in 15 people in a house and see how everyone gets on without producers interfering and staging every single every conversation aired.
It could be organic but never allowed to be in LI.

Haven't watched for a few days, thought I'd watch one episode to see what's happening. Looks like they're all doomed.

Casa Amor up on insta the boys are yuck

Omg where do they find these Casa people!!!

Kain looks like a bit of a Ron character. That's only from looking at 1 photo though.

All the Casa boys seem to fancy Samie

It's difficult to tell from the page what the newbies will be like (both boys and girls are on the app)

Couple of truly dreadful haircuts though, and one bikini top that does not look up to the task

Martin from CA looks nice but the rest look pretty ropey (and on the young side).

Sammy and Sanam appear to be the most attractive girls but then I can remember thinking Megan Barton-Hanson was unattractive on her promo stills.

Incidentally MBH is unrecognisable now.

I can't believe the producers have done it again with the Casa Amor boys.

They’re not much cop like…

I don’t think the original boys have anything to worry about…

One of the CA men (Kain) has very nice eyes. Maxwell looks ok too (minus his earrings) and maybe Martin too. Sammie looks pretty and Sanam. Its hard to tell with the women until you see them without their extensions, fake lashes, heavy makeup. Zara looked incredible walking in but didn't stand out at all once she removed her hairpieces and makeup.

I think Ron will stay true to Lana, to prove a point, but instead will be the one egging on all the boys, living vicariously through them like Jake did a few years ago.

Jessie Will and Lana will definitely stay faithful. Possibly Olivia , Kai, Tom, Shaq and Ron. I think the others will stray.

The casa guy from Ipswich has the worst hair do ever. All the lads are too young. Like just too young and my suspicion is they will therefore have nothing about them. Except maybe the oldest guy bit he is mates with dami so he'll maybe have an idea of the 'game' but don't know if that will be an advantage.

Layla's bikini top isn't bothering to do the heavy lifting 🤣 and poor Lynda has had most of her head chopped off (work experience left in charge of loading up!)

I agree with all this

Not this LI related, but I see that Ekin and Davide are continuing to face accusations that their romance is fake. Interested in opinions - I don’t follow Ekin as I found her a bit full of herself and fake.