Love Island 2024 Thread 1: Are we really going to put ourselves through this again?

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Contestants were announced today for the new series starting on Monday 3rd.

I don't know if I can do it this year folks.

The I’m a prize line is not convincing anyone, least of all herself. Pick & mix just wants to be kept in.
Joey isn’t remotely interested in Samantha. She’s an easy one though got him, she won’t bin him off as she wants to be with Joey Essex.
Last few nights it’s been on but I’ve not been watching avidly.
Harriet needs to get her lashes and extensions done, both are looking really ratty.

Both Harriet and Mimi I want to reach through the TV and pluck their lash extensions off; they are literally hanging off their faces.

Is Harriet trans?

Don’t think so but she looks so different to how she used too. Been seeing this on SM

The lash extensions look silly, particularly Mimi's. Why don't they go for more natural looking ones? Or even none at all. Harriet is pretty but I wonder if she's had Buchal fat removal (from the cheekbones).

Agree.

They'd look so much better natural or even just with far more subtle lashes.

I have no idea if all the lines they say are producer fed. So staged and set up.

Cross post !

If you could a few things about Love Island, what would they be??
Lists please :)

I was dreading seeing Joey Essex potentially going on celeb big brother as I thought it was just lazy casting! and he's been on every show there is going and brings very little..
Same old same. So he ends up on Love Island instead...

The lashes drive me mad - I agree that Mimi’s are dreadful too. Like someone threw a couple of baby squid at her! How do they manage to blink?!

@Aquarius1234

Is that a list of what we’d change?

I would ban:

False lashes - see above

Hair extensions (which by the end of week 1 look like the girls are wearing old fur hats and have been caught in a downpour)

Turkey teeth 🦃

Lip fillers

The Hideaway (🤢)

The Canesten inducing “lingerie” from the Hideaway

Thong bikinis/swimwear

The weird bikini bottoms that look like someone has threaded a Sporran or nappy onto a ratty Lycra strap

Influencers

Matching shirts and shorts for the boys - they are not 3 years old

About 87% of the make up

Cliffhangers

Anyone being filmed removing their make up - the wipes afterwards could be used to bribe gang members into doing or saying anything to the police - the used wipes are absolutely minging. Maybe they could be repurposed for 24 hours in Police Custody?!

The Islanders deciding who stays when the public have voted - lowest votes go home, end of

The word “Triangle”

There should be a public vote on any previous islanders coming back for Casa Amor - not someone in production’s mate they were hoping to keep in a bit longer - yes, I mean you Mohlee (although she’s apparently still with whatever his name was from last year who thought he was Straight Outta Compton but was actually from a cul de sac somewhere near Gravesend)

The following phrases

“At the end of the day I’m here for love”
“I’m still open” (What are you a door?!)
“I ain’t done nothing wrong bruv” (And yet…)
”Love you babes” (Esp when used by one girl to another on Day 2)
”I’m not waiting around for you” (Again, and yet…here you are sitting beside him on the beanbags AGAIN)
and surprise new entry “I’m a prize” 🏆

The last dates near the end of the season - there’s always a couple production clearly hate who have a minging picnic in a grubby jacuzzi whilst their favourites are serenaded by Adele in the Colosseum

On the fence about the babies 👶

Yes sorry list some things you would change about Love Island now its been going along the same path for years.
Even the titles and graphics feel dated.

With regards to the triangle things, on the surface I agree it's awful, it's always the women that are kept hanging and I do wonder why they put up with it. But then I remember, it's not like real life and they would be silly to be "closed off" so quickly and not "exploring options". And let's be fair, all the girls are so quick to say they're still open (obviously lying through their teeth, but don't want to appear possessive) so I'm not sure they're validated in getting the hump when "their" man is undecided. Perhaps if they didn't jump in so quickly and took the time to get to know others they'd be more successful finding their true matches?

I'm unsure if Mimii has gone off Ayo aa he didn't get to pick her because actually I can't ever read her as she shows zero emotion, which I find unsettling.

Sean gives me the ick as hes so happy to be someone's second choice and I'm not sure there's anyone in the villa he wouldn't want to be with. Incredibly desperate to stay in the villa or just desperate in general? Not sure.

I would start showing all conversations and flirting with anyone and everyone that isn't staged and set up.
So I would only want to see chat that isn't staged and forced.
No kisses on the terrace as they are all pre set up.

I would want to see more of the laughter you hear in the background rather than forced one on one chats.
More kitchen stuff and hanging out in the house.

I would want the islanders to choose the dares round the fire pit.

No dates.

Once a week only re couplings. and quicker no drawn out speeches.
I would allow bed swapping all the time. As that would happen in real life with a gang of 20 somethings on holiday.
Little bit more alcohol needed.

Yes to no turkey ultra white teeth and no false lashes or crazy lips.
No thongs either.

Oh and less music played constantly and definitely no babies or even family.
I would allow bisexual islanders all the time.

Possibly, Harriet has had a lot of work done in general and I feel that’s why she looks so old?

She looks good - but for an older woman.

On social media a lot of people were saying how she could really pass for a glamorous 40+ year old and those who haven’t watched this love island season flat didn’t believe she was mid 20s. Maybe the camera is ageing her?

It's all the work she's had done that is ageing her. Not the cameras.

Yeah if she was 38/40 she would look much older.

It’s just strange to me as I don’t think I’ve ever known a woman irl that young to look so mature, but yeah I think you’re right. It is the cosmetic work not the cameras 😬

Nicole looks just as old with all the work and makeup.

Does Harriet look a little bit like Caroline Flack or Sienna Miller? if she was toned down and they were toned up lol

I would agree and no exes going in

I love Nicole but I agree she looks old too.

I hope teens will look at these islanders and decide to hold off before they rush out and get fillers/Botox at age 18.

But then seeing the positive attention it gets them from men, it will probably have the opposite effect!

I do see a bit of a Caroline Flack resemblance!

As I've banged on about, tighter age range (not by much but say 21-29 not 19-33).

No babies

More big brother format to get to know them as people (say a late night hour once a week) just showing them chatting about normal/ silly/ personal stuff. It might be a lightweight gameshow where people are picked for looking sexy in bathers but they're still adults with experiences and opinions, why not show both?

More natural looks. Some of the fillers and extensions are very dated

No reality veterans/ previous islanders

Iain Stirling sounds like he's phoning it in this series. Fresh narrator?