Love Island UK, Summer 2025 🏝 - Started Monday 9th June at 9pm on ITV2 ... THREAD 3

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On week 5 now (I think,) and I don't think there is one single solid couple at the moment. They're all over the place! 😬

Continued from Thread 2. (Obvs!)

Shakira is a mean bitch

Only when needs must IMO.

So annoyed about how they made Shakira look when there is so much footage they didn’t show of Helena being a total snake. Constantly trying to persuade Harry to go in to the hideaway, sniggering about wearing her bikinis and just playing mind games.

Dejon is a horrible gaslighter that just shuts all the girls down when they have valid points. I hope Meg’s eyes are well and truly opened.

Viewed in context all her comments were justified.

Omg I can't believe I fell asleep watching it and missed it all! The Toni/harrison situation was just too repetitive and dull. But now I'm hearing M and H have basically got away with their behaviour and shakeira come across in a bad way? Is this true? How is she the villain after everything! Has Harry just got away with it?
I feel like I can't rewatch 🙈

She said sorry that was mean Helena but I meant it to be mean… she’s coming across as very nasty imo and then they piled on Meg at the end when Shakira and Toni have been pretty nasty

She can criticise Helena’s behaviour without making personal digs about her, I would have been so uncomfortable if it was Helena watching Toni and Shakira bitch fest. Helena Handled it well.

If I* was Helena watching that back

I like Shakira. She is the most honest person in the villa imho
Dislike Dejon and ‘My Meg’. He is a liar and a gaslighter . I am glad that Billykiss was vindicated

Harry is pathetic and needs to grow the fuck up
Ben is so thick … the lights are on but nobody is at home
Helena… mean, bitter and lacks empathy

Helena deserves to feel uncomfortable. She has been vile to Shakira but I actually think Meg is the real villain and a lot of her egging Helena on has been cut out.

Shakira is brilliant. I want her to win on her own tbh.

Shakira was far worse

@Usernamenotavailable19

I suspect you of being deliberately controversial.

I love how she snapped back at Emma to say she’s the most bitter in there, perfectly true 👌 and so quick.

We’re watching completely different shows then because all I’ve seen is Shakira responding to a horrible little clique who have sniped and sneered at her from behind her back from the get go. She has been far more gracious than I would have been in her shoes if every time I tried to get to know someone Helena hijacked it just for a laugh to prove she could.

And Shakira owned her bitchy comments, she didn’t try and deny them or twist them to make her be seen in a more favourable light she was like yep, it was nasty, I was trying to be nasty, I was pissed off. Whereas Meg and Helena are both acting affronted and trying to shift the narrative of their own cuntiness away from them.

Why? Because I have a different opinion to you?

Because you have a different opinion from everyone.

And say it every second post.

Though I beat you to it that time 😃

Agree that producers have gone out of their way to paint Helena the bullyas the victim. They cherry-picked swipes Shakira had made without showing any of the context- that Helena had been chipping away at her constantly. Barely anything was shown of the Helena's obsessive and targeted campaign towards Shakira that would have given nuance to Shakira's words. The boys were all sat there 'ooo-ing' and wincing at the bikini comments- but where was the other side shown? They've basically granted Helena impunity for bullying behaviour whilst simultaneously putting a target on Shakira's back for 'mean girl' accusations. They've done her dirty, Billykiss rightly got her vindication last night, Shakira deserved hers too.

I thjnk they are worried they've made Helena look bad so have tried to soften it with this. There are far worse clips of Helena than what they showed. And why did Meg get off so lightly. She's been vile trying to encourage Helena to take whoever Shakira fancies.

@HelpMebeok I agree! I think they’ve seen the strength of feeling online about Helena and they are trying to give her a bit of a redemption arc by painting her as the victim of Harry and now the punching bag of Shakira.

I am totally team Shakira but I do think that her and Toni are being a bit shit with Harrison’s new girl, Lauren. They keep implying that Harrison has done/said something awful in front of her (and now the rest of the villa) without just telling her what it is. As far as I’ve seen he hasn’t really done anything other than the clip they saw earlier which was pretty mild.

Movie night seemed to focus on the girls bitching about each other more than the couples, which are supposedly the wehole point vlof the game. In previous years the producers have pushed the same sex friendships as being the emotional support for the contestants.