Speaker 1: Got texts. That's such high and welcome to another episode
Speaker 1: of Outspoken. You're joined as usual by journalists Amy, Sophie
Speaker 1: and Kate Torbough, and today we've decided to focus a
Speaker 1: whole episode on the new series of Love Island UK,
Speaker 1: simply just because we love it and we thought you
Speaker 1: guys might be excited to hear us dissect it. Sophie,
Speaker 1: what were your thoughts. I know you've been probably one
Speaker 1: of the most excited people in Australia for the launch. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: the thing that first struck me was the incredible villa
Speaker 1: this year. Because they are launching for the first time
Speaker 1: in the UK winter, they're holding Love Island in South Africa.
Speaker 1: Usually it's in Spain, and I was thinking because of that,
Speaker 1: maybe the villa might be a bit subpar, But it
Speaker 1: was absolutely incredible. It's huge, isn't it. It made the
Speaker 1: Australian Love Island villa look like an up little Let's
Speaker 1: not even compare the two programs in the same sentence.
Speaker 1: There is no comparison between Love Island UK and Australia.
Speaker 1: Can I just say one thing? I thought of the
Speaker 1: fact that it's in South Africa, but it's still called
Speaker 1: Love Island. I'm not sure if South Africa is an island.
Speaker 1: Think about that. I think that's we shouldn't even get
Speaker 1: into that. Well, this villa was three story, which I
Speaker 1: thought was amazing, and the pool is actually located on
Speaker 1: the top floor. Really yeah, And the thing that I
Speaker 1: loved as well was the new edition of the doghouse,
Speaker 1: which was the fold out bed. I mean personally, I
Speaker 1: did like seeing them have to sleep out outside. That
Speaker 1: was pretty fine. Oh yeah, so is there no bed
Speaker 1: outside down? Well, there could be, but I think they've
Speaker 1: introduced this doghouse, so I don't know, make more of
Speaker 1: a deal about it. I thought it might be a
Speaker 1: clue that there might be heaps of intruders coming because
Speaker 1: I remember there was one stage where there wasn't enough
Speaker 1: beds for them last year on Love Island, So maybe
Speaker 1: they're trying to add bulk bedding. Maybe they thought it
Speaker 1: was too cruel to actually make them sleep outside because
Speaker 1: I know they often didn't get a very good sleep
Speaker 1: when the sun came. Maybe super Maybe they'll be attacked
Speaker 1: by some South African animal it's a risk of or
Speaker 1: some insects or something. The other thing I love insects
Speaker 1: malaria problem. Zeke is in bald but they're outside the
Speaker 1: whole time anyway. Anyway. But the thing that I love
Speaker 1: was a new addition as well to the girl's makeup room,
Speaker 1: and there was a glowing neon sign that said girl Code.
Speaker 1: And I liked that because I feel like there's so
Speaker 1: much bitchiness, not bitchiness, but so many private discussions that
Speaker 1: got on up there. I thought it was a great
Speaker 1: way to add that a reminder for them. I always
Speaker 1: wonder if they get embarrassed, because especially with the Love
Speaker 1: Island UK, with the girls, they take so long to
Speaker 1: get ready, it seems I would love to know how
Speaker 1: long it actually takes for one of those nights out,
Speaker 1: because it looks kind of like Jordi shawstyle when they're
Speaker 1: clipping in the hair and the eyelashes and everything. It's
Speaker 1: not why they've got much more to do on the
Speaker 1: island except to go swimming and then get ready. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a whole process. You've gotta get ready in the morning,
Speaker 1: then you're got to go for your swim, and then
Speaker 1: you got gotta get ready again. I felt like the
Speaker 1: UK is very different to Australia, though, like I feel
Speaker 1: like I should have been born in the UK. I
Speaker 1: love the epic makeup they wear. Do you mean in
Speaker 1: terms of the time it takes you to get ready? Like?
Speaker 1: I love that they actually I feel like I've watched
Speaker 1: a few other vlogs from people in the UK set
Speaker 1: from barcun Anesthesia, and they do make it a real
Speaker 1: sit down process of all getting together and socializing while
Speaker 1: they do their makeup. And I love that. For anyone
Speaker 1: that's been on holiday with Sophie, a tropical holiday, they
Speaker 1: will know. We actually on one of I think it
Speaker 1: was our third night there. We were getting ready for
Speaker 1: a surprise birthday dinner and Sophie's boyfriend Brandon forgot to
Speaker 1: give her heads up that we would be leaving, and
Speaker 1: I think she only had twenty minutes to get ready.
Speaker 1: This is after being in the pool, and my god,
Speaker 1: she was not happy at all. You did get broken
Speaker 1: up with after going on and over holidays that DJ okay,
Speaker 1: let's just move on to the fact that Caroline Flack
Speaker 1: wasn't there and we had a new host called Laura Whitmore,
Speaker 1: who I think we've got mixed reviews. I thought she
Speaker 1: was good. I don't really care about the host I
Speaker 1: don't think it's really about the host, But Amy, I
Speaker 1: think you thought differently. Yeah, I didn't rate it. I
Speaker 1: just thought she said the same thing every time the
Speaker 1: men came out, And I don't know, there's something about
Speaker 1: Caroline Flak that just adds a bit more to Love
Speaker 1: Island UK. And I think it was only evident once
Speaker 1: there was a new host, because I know what you're saying.
Speaker 1: They don't really have that much to play. Sorry, they
Speaker 1: don't really have that much to do with the episodes,
Speaker 1: but the first episode is where they shine it. I
Speaker 1: don't even notice her, to be honest, when everyone was
Speaker 1: at this uproar, I'm like, I don't care. It's the
Speaker 1: Flak attack. It's the moment they do need a host,
Speaker 1: because in America they actually didn't have a host for
Speaker 1: the series. I'm not saying they don't need a host.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I don't think they add a lot
Speaker 1: like she. I think, Emma, what was it? Laura did
Speaker 1: a good job at her. Going back to what I
Speaker 1: was saying, in America, they didn't have the addition of
Speaker 1: the host, and the cast members would just read out
Speaker 1: the text messages they received. But I think what is
Speaker 1: Such a compelling moment is when Caroline Flak would walk
Speaker 1: in and everyone's jaws would just drop, like that impact
Speaker 1: that she had in there. Oh fuck, something bad, it's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Well, I suppose they're still going to be
Speaker 1: that impact with the new host, but I don't think
Speaker 1: she just had the star power of Caroline Flack, and
Speaker 1: I think it would have been even cooler because there
Speaker 1: was all of that uproar. I mean, I know it's
Speaker 1: not obviously great what she did, but allegedly I just
Speaker 1: think allegedly did yet. But I don't know. I personally
Speaker 1: missed her in the episode. She'll be back for the
Speaker 1: real summer SAT. It's like if they brought you know,
Speaker 1: they've got Sophie Monk in Australia. It's like if they
Speaker 1: bought Sally polar on us from Pop Stars. It was
Speaker 1: a very it was a very C grade version of
Speaker 1: Carolina is she's she's actually the girlfriend of the voiceover guy.
Speaker 1: I think I read oh wow. I like that they
Speaker 1: should have They should have a bit of like a
Speaker 1: back and forth joke with him and her about it.
Speaker 1: I couldn't stand a voice though. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: feel like when you watch Love Island, you realize how
Speaker 1: unattractive some of the accents in the UK. Well, moving on,
Speaker 1: should we talk about the girls because I actually I
Speaker 1: liked most of them, to be honest, What did you
Speaker 1: think who was your favorite? We should probably start with
Speaker 1: Shenise Fudge because she was the girl we all first
Speaker 1: met her in Page when they first were let into
Speaker 1: the villa, and she's known as Princess Jasmine and an
Speaker 1: eyebrow queen. Oh is she actually known as Princess Jasmine? Well,
Speaker 1: that's what everyone's calling her after her. So she matched
Speaker 1: with Naz and she said he looked like a Laddin,
Speaker 1: which I was like, oh, so racist in this day
Speaker 1: and age, everyone's so oversensitive. I didn't know. I liked
Speaker 1: that she had a lot of Disney references, So when
Speaker 1: they got coupled up, she obviously said about Princess Jasmine
Speaker 1: and then they were talking about Disney for ages, and
Speaker 1: then she also said to Olie the Lord Future Lord
Speaker 1: that he looked like John Smith from Pokahonnas. I was like,
Speaker 1: what's wrong with her? She's just trying to categorize everyone.
Speaker 1: The other thing she was trying to do was overly
Speaker 1: mention the fact, her last name was Fudge. You know
Speaker 1: how everyone has their own little It's like fetch, It's
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. Fudge is not happening. Okay, Well I
Speaker 1: did think it was funny though, that she's this beauty
Speaker 1: consultant and was known for having these incredible eyebrows. And
Speaker 1: the first thing Nas said that he's most attracted to
Speaker 1: women have beautiful eyebrows. I thought that was so weird
Speaker 1: when he said that, because I've never heard of a
Speaker 1: guy who said they like a woman's eyebrows. I think
Speaker 1: it might be a uk thing. I actually really liked him,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna say I don't really like her. I
Speaker 1: think she was a bit rude and dismissive of the
Speaker 1: fact that he was too short and she didn't like him.
Speaker 1: But I actually really liked him. Think he's going to
Speaker 1: be like what's his name, the little guy that's friends
Speaker 1: with Chris from Kem Kent, No Kem. I think he's
Speaker 1: going to be like Kem, like that lovable guy, and
Speaker 1: I think hopefully he stays in for a while. What
Speaker 1: was interesting is when we first met all the girls
Speaker 1: before the boys came out, all of them were like,
Speaker 1: I want to build it, and I want someone that's
Speaker 1: told and I mean Paul Naz was actually a builder.
Speaker 1: Can he takes one of the boxes. I find it
Speaker 1: funny in the UK that they're all like, oh, I
Speaker 1: just want to go out of the trade. It's like
Speaker 1: I would have thought it would be, you know, a
Speaker 1: doctor or a lawyer or someone I don't know, a lord.
Speaker 1: I love the fact that they had a lord there
Speaker 1: and no one seemed that interested. But that's because he
Speaker 1: told them all he was a farmer. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: his mistake. Do you know what I thought that. I
Speaker 1: thought it was a bit uncomfortable the way they were
Speaker 1: discussing men's height, because I feel like it feels like
Speaker 1: it's okay for women to say that in front of men,
Speaker 1: But imagine if a man was like, oh, I don't
Speaker 1: like girls with small tits, Like I know that's this
Speaker 1: more sexual thing. Well, a lot of them were saying
Speaker 1: that they liked the big bum and the big boob,
Speaker 1: So there's not really a huge difference, is that, I don't.
Speaker 1: I think the women were just being honest. If you're short,
Speaker 1: you don't want to go out with a guy that's
Speaker 1: shorter than you. Let's be honest, wasn't Denise is the
Speaker 1: same heart as him. Yeah, but she's clearly short. Like,
Speaker 1: if you're five foot four, you don't want to go
Speaker 1: out with a guy that's five foot four. It's not
Speaker 1: that hard to find someone taller than I know, But
Speaker 1: why is that such a thing. I just felt sorry
Speaker 1: for him because I don't like he can help. I
Speaker 1: felt sorry for him. But Okay, if you were there,
Speaker 1: would you have stepped forward for him? Well? I think
Speaker 1: that it Actually no, I would. Wait. I don't think
Speaker 1: it helped the fact that he came out first, because
Speaker 1: I feel like most of the time you have stepped
Speaker 1: forward for him. No, I wouldn't have, but I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have said in front of him, oh I don't like
Speaker 1: him because he's sure. But I think I said behind
Speaker 1: his back. I know they said it in front. I
Speaker 1: think it's better if they said, oh, it's just that
Speaker 1: you're a bit sure. I normally like tall guys. Because
Speaker 1: it was Actually, the whole thing is based off appearances,
Speaker 1: so you're meant to pick based on what your type isn't.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately he wasn't her type, but suren Then after he
Speaker 1: came out, they're like, oh, what are you looking for
Speaker 1: in the next Oh, I really want someone tall. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I thought it was a bit of salt
Speaker 1: in the wound for Paul now when she'd probably move
Speaker 1: on to Shanna. I think she is going to be
Speaker 1: an absolute crowd favorite. She's already been compared to the
Speaker 1: hugely popular Olivia, who was on two seasons previous. She
Speaker 1: seems like she's got a huge personality. I actually thought
Speaker 1: she reminded me more of Danny Dyer. Yeah. Same. She
Speaker 1: actually looks like her too, she did. I at first
Speaker 1: was a little bit like, Oh, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I like her, and then by the end I thought, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be really good value. She just kind of
Speaker 1: said it how it is, and she seems to be
Speaker 1: falling for her partner. What I liked about her, and
Speaker 1: I think this may be Love Island history, is that
Speaker 1: she walked in with the sarong, so normally we see
Speaker 1: their full arses in their gee strings, but we actually
Speaker 1: didn't see her ass. I didn't see a lot of
Speaker 1: us actually come to think I did. I did well.
Speaker 1: I felt like I was kind of torn about the
Speaker 1: Sarong because when she first entered, I thought, oh, we're
Speaker 1: going to see a bit more body diversity in here.
Speaker 1: When she walked in, She's got an incredible figure, so
Speaker 1: that's why I was a bit disappointed that she did
Speaker 1: have the sarong. Yeah, but I think that's how most
Speaker 1: people that are a bit thicker, where like they're highlighting
Speaker 1: their curves, but they're just not letting everything. I think
Speaker 1: it was bad that she wore the sad. I don't
Speaker 1: think it was bad, but I just I don't know.
Speaker 1: It wasn't too much. I wouldn't if I was in there.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want my ass hanging out. And to be
Speaker 1: fair in the videos where they show like who they are,
Speaker 1: she had her legs out in the photo shoots, so
Speaker 1: I don't think she was just wearing I think that
Speaker 1: was just the outfit. Do you think that she and
Speaker 1: Callum are going to be the kind of power couple
Speaker 1: at the moment that I'm assuming from what I've seen
Speaker 1: that he's going to hook up with one of the twins. Well,
Speaker 1: I feel like the red flag for her was that
Speaker 1: he had the same job as an ex boyfriend that
Speaker 1: cheated on her, possibly once a cheetah or is a cheater? Well,
Speaker 1: what about Leanne. What do you think of Leanne? I
Speaker 1: thought she was stunning. I thought it was quite She
Speaker 1: obviously knew what she was looking for. It has been
Speaker 1: spoken a lot about before that the women and men
Speaker 1: of color have often been chosen last, so kind of
Speaker 1: I don't know, did anyone else for a bit awkward
Speaker 1: when it was she and Mike the policeman left. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like, Oh, I don't know, she looks so
Speaker 1: cute together. She do look so cute together, but I thought, oh,
Speaker 1: do they feel awkward it that now they've got a
Speaker 1: partner on? But she didn't. Actually, the thing is she
Speaker 1: didn't step forward for anyone, so it was not because
Speaker 1: she wasn't picked. And also he was like the last person,
Speaker 1: so he got free range to pick whoever he lived. Exactly.
Speaker 1: It didn't happen this year, but in the past series
Speaker 1: it has been the women of color and the men
Speaker 1: of color who have been put in the sin bin
Speaker 1: and chosen last. But it was good to see that
Speaker 1: didn't happen this year. Well, Sophie is a woman of
Speaker 1: color and she was probably one of the ones that
Speaker 1: the guys first wanted to pick. So, yeah, she's stunning.
Speaker 1: She's just got something about her. I think Leanne did
Speaker 1: remind me very much of Yrwanda from last season when
Speaker 1: she was talking about the fact that she finds it
Speaker 1: really difficult to open up, and I feel like that
Speaker 1: might set her back a little bit in the game. Well,
Speaker 1: there was an article just before Love Island UK launch
Speaker 1: and it was impairing current contestants to previous contestants, and
Speaker 1: they were actually compared to be no only look quite similar,
Speaker 1: but also have similar personalities. And it seems they've tried
Speaker 1: to go with that same formula of getting, you know,
Speaker 1: the popular people that were on Love Island, they've seemed
Speaker 1: to try and recreate that. One of the girls that
Speaker 1: I am particularly interested in his page because she dropped
Speaker 1: quite a bomb in her intro video the fact that
Speaker 1: she dated Lewis Capaldi. Now, I'm gonna admit I don't
Speaker 1: know who that is, but I did google it and
Speaker 1: he seems to be a pretty big singer songwriter. He's
Speaker 1: a Scottish singer songwriter. Did you know that before? No?
Speaker 1: I googled it it looks like edge, yes, and actually
Speaker 1: wrote down he looks like a poor man's Yeah. I
Speaker 1: was a bit surprised when I saw him because it
Speaker 1: kind of seems like maybe she dated him because she
Speaker 1: was famous and he was famous, and he is rumored
Speaker 1: that he wrote some really big hits about her. But
Speaker 1: he was interviewed on radio following her shock that she
Speaker 1: isn't into appearances and that people do kind of she
Speaker 1: does warm up to certain guys, so maybe she is
Speaker 1: a really nice girl. I also, what I've also found
Speaker 1: interesting was there was some sort of insinuation from Lewis
Speaker 1: that she cheated on him, But then when Olie said
Speaker 1: that he cheated on his first girlfriend ever, she seemed
Speaker 1: pretty appalled, like it was a red flag. So apparently
Speaker 1: some viewers have sort of noted that and are a
Speaker 1: bit annoyed about it. Well, did you notice that she
Speaker 1: didn't seem interested in Olie at all when he said
Speaker 1: he was a farmer, But then as soon as he
Speaker 1: said I earned some property and it became evident that
Speaker 1: he was quite wealthy, she suddenly I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was just editing, but she suddenly seemed a little
Speaker 1: more interesting. Said property next door to Prince Charles and Camilla,
Speaker 1: so that probably adds a little bit more intrigued about
Speaker 1: him as well. He literally sounded like Prince Harry. I
Speaker 1: think he's a dead ringer for George from last season.
Speaker 1: Who was George from last season? He was known for
Speaker 1: asking Lucy what her favorite flavor of chips was. Sorry
Speaker 1: on from that what if? How the fucking coffee bean guy?
Speaker 1: And they were like, oh, he's so hot. I was
Speaker 1: like ooh. I actually shrieked at Brandon. I said, it
Speaker 1: looks like he's wearing denches, like his teeth were fat.
Speaker 1: He got teeth in and what was worse than what
Speaker 1: was worse than the teeth was the bowl haircut as well.
Speaker 1: I hate that. I hate the bowl haircut. How are
Speaker 1: they in fashion at the moment? Those haircuts they looked insane.
Speaker 1: And it is funny because he has been compared to
Speaker 1: Will from the in between US briefcase wanker for those
Speaker 1: who don't know, he actually reminded me a little bit
Speaker 1: of Jack that hooked up with Danny Dyer because in
Speaker 1: terms of his job, so Jack sold pens, and it
Speaker 1: seems like he's, you know, selling coffee. So I think
Speaker 1: they're trying to, as Amy said, go on that old
Speaker 1: pattern of you know, picking similar people that are going
Speaker 1: to be popular. He reminded me of Joe in that
Speaker 1: sense of the job, because he made sandwiches. That's true,
Speaker 1: We'll see that was the series before and then the
Speaker 1: series before that. That's what I thought was so funny
Speaker 1: that the girls were willing to step forward for him,
Speaker 1: the guy that sells coffee beans. They didn't actually know
Speaker 1: that at the time, but the bloody guy, he's going
Speaker 1: to be a lord. No one stepped forward. I thought
Speaker 1: it was also appalling the outfit he chose, that two
Speaker 1: piece pink the cord standing the co orders are calling it.
Speaker 1: I think that actually is the right word for What
Speaker 1: about when he dropped that he'd had a threesome after
Speaker 1: a first date. Oh, because Sophie was all I suppose
Speaker 1: we got to talk about Sophie, but Sophie was all
Speaker 1: in love with him, looking very happy with herself. It's like,
Speaker 1: can you read the bloody scene? Like well, and he
Speaker 1: brought it up. The game Amy's referring to is the
Speaker 1: game where you have to say something and that everyone
Speaker 1: around them has to work out if it's true or false.
Speaker 1: And Seana says, I've slept with twenty guys and then
Speaker 1: bloody mister coffee bean. Yeahs wasn't he calling mister Bean
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, yeah, that's true. It's like read the crowd, dickhead.
Speaker 1: And then did you hear how Mike said that he
Speaker 1: likes confirmed that he slept with below twenty people and
Speaker 1: everyone was like, oh, that's you know, love island figures
Speaker 1: where people are like oh. And then Sophie made some
Speaker 1: dig towards mister Bean about oh, yeah, that's what people
Speaker 1: want to hear or something like that. He's like, you know,
Speaker 1: how do you be rude? Or yeah, he got really
Speaker 1: funny about it. He's already been touted as the next Michae,
Speaker 1: although everyone's saying it's a bit of a red flag
Speaker 1: that he's already showing that kind of I was like,
Speaker 1: who's like, Michael Amber Michael, Oh, okay, sorry, that's funny.
Speaker 1: How quickly we forget Well, they're saying that his behavior
Speaker 1: is very controlling for someone who's been dating someone for
Speaker 1: a day. What did everyone think of Sophie? Because I
Speaker 1: said before, I think she's stunning and she actually seems
Speaker 1: really nice, like I like that she's the classy girl
Speaker 1: from Essex. How she said she doesn't like grind up
Speaker 1: on people on the dance floor. She did. She's stunning,
Speaker 1: but I couldn't get over her eyebrows. Why were they
Speaker 1: all pushed up? I don't even know that that's in
Speaker 1: fashionamy to be pushed They just needed to be smooth.
Speaker 1: She did cop a bit of flak in the UK
Speaker 1: press for name dropping. So she is the sister of
Speaker 1: Rochelle Humes, who is a UK singer and television presenter.
Speaker 1: Did she Tommy get crap from last series about dropping?
Speaker 1: Who his brother is? Who's Tommy's brother? The fight? The
Speaker 1: Big Tommy Fury Fury his brother is some huge boxer.
Speaker 1: I can't even think of his name. But I feel
Speaker 1: like saying as well, like all of them are going
Speaker 1: in there to be famous, and if they're pro, what
Speaker 1: about the dance though? What's this? I can't even remember.
Speaker 1: Curtis his brother was a fame on some AJ. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: the other people that have been criticized have been the twins.
Speaker 1: So the twins came in as the bombshell. So their
Speaker 1: aim is to steal two of the men they get to.
Speaker 1: You know what I hate about that the fact that
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, these sexy playboy twins, that they're all
Speaker 1: like all the guys' mouths dropped, and they all think
Speaker 1: that they're going to hook up with one person, Like
Speaker 1: it just makes me sick being a multiple. I think
Speaker 1: that they're going to get with both. It was kind
Speaker 1: of the same person. The inference that they're all going
Speaker 1: to get a threesome out of it or something. That's
Speaker 1: not what I picked up on. I just thought it
Speaker 1: was gross. I thought it was funny because they did
Speaker 1: come across as a bit trashy, and they have copped
Speaker 1: a lot of criticism because apparently they were licking their lips.
Speaker 1: They were, they were, but I think some of it.
Speaker 1: I think they've got there's basically a hate campaign going
Speaker 1: on in the UK, and their dads had to come
Speaker 1: and defend them. And I read that they were only
Speaker 1: twenty so I felt a bit bad. I was. That
Speaker 1: was one thing I noticed. Every time they said what
Speaker 1: their age was, I feel like they're all under twenty three.
Speaker 1: But do you remember, with a few exceptions, remember from
Speaker 1: last season, there were debate going on whether some were
Speaker 1: lying about their age, Like, for example, when that Connor
Speaker 1: guy walked in and they said he was twenty five,
Speaker 1: I'm like, bullshit, he looks so old. Do you mean
Speaker 1: from last series Connor, the guy with the bowl haircut. Sorry,
Speaker 1: please refer to he is frequickly. But I feel like
Speaker 1: a lot of people in the Uku sun beds, so
Speaker 1: I feel like that could age them. Do you know
Speaker 1: what shocked me though? In the intro when they this
Speaker 1: episode started and they showed all of them in their
Speaker 1: normal jobs and then they just was stripping down to
Speaker 1: It was funny. But my boyfriend Brandon was watching with
Speaker 1: me and his face he's like, what is this? I
Speaker 1: sent Reese to the PlayStation room. I said, look, I'm
Speaker 1: when I watch Love Island, you and I go play PlayStation.
Speaker 1: It was a great deal. It was a great It
Speaker 1: was a great trade off. Or I reckon we should
Speaker 1: just have a quick chat about the guys. Obviously, we
Speaker 1: said Naz, who is the modern day Aladdin. We will
Speaker 1: think he's going to be pretty popular. Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be one of those sweethearts,
Speaker 1: a bit like Alex from two series ago Dtor Alex,
Speaker 1: who was a bit unlucky in love but managed to
Speaker 1: stay in there and confirm he is Asian and Caribbean.
Speaker 1: He was playing at home. He does have very stunning features.
Speaker 1: He was slugged off for his board shots. I thought
Speaker 1: that were quite cool. Yeah, he was really definitely wasn't
Speaker 1: the worst dressed, but I think the board shots were
Speaker 1: an excuse, to be honest. Next we had Calum arrived,
Speaker 1: the scaffolder that everyone seemed to think probably was the
Speaker 1: hottest guy out of everyone there. I think it's slim pickings,
Speaker 1: but I mean I didn't think any of them were.
Speaker 1: He looks like he looks like from the previous series
Speaker 1: it was I can't remember. He owned a PR company
Speaker 1: and he was partner with Caddie, and I think they
Speaker 1: came really close to actually the Scott. I don't know
Speaker 1: he looks like him anyway. I think he actually looked
Speaker 1: like It sounds like I'm obsessed with the in between
Speaker 1: us because I am. He looked like the dumb one
Speaker 1: in the in between us with muscles. I don't think
Speaker 1: he was good looking at all. He did not look
Speaker 1: like someone from the in between I thought he was
Speaker 1: probably the best looking. I don't know what they would
Speaker 1: have stepped forward because I'm not a huge and I
Speaker 1: said slim pickings like I don't I didn't really actually
Speaker 1: I probably would have stepped forward for Olie. But what
Speaker 1: they always do is they always going to bring in
Speaker 1: the real hotties. Yeah, next, well the girl. Not to
Speaker 1: be rude, but I didn't find the twins that attractive,
Speaker 1: but I think that's just the twin factor. Wait, which
Speaker 1: one's Onie Blonder? The blonde rich guy. I actually cringed
Speaker 1: when I saw him. I was like, no, But on
Speaker 1: first impression, he's pretty good looking and he actually I
Speaker 1: know you said he reminded you of George, that sort
Speaker 1: of no name that was trying to hook up with
Speaker 1: Lucy last year, but he kind of had doctor Alex
Speaker 1: vibes for me. Well, you might not like him now.
Speaker 1: And this is a bit of a spoiler alert, but
Speaker 1: he has actually already left the villa after three that's
Speaker 1: being in there, and his departure coincided with a petition
Speaker 1: which has been signed by more than thirty five thousand
Speaker 1: people calling him to be removed because he is a
Speaker 1: trophy hunter. So on his Instagram account he's been featuring
Speaker 1: quite gruteque. But that's not the reason why he's left,
Speaker 1: or they're saying, well, he coincides with that, there is
Speaker 1: another reason. The reason. The reason he's left is because
Speaker 1: he's admitted that he had he's in love with somebody
Speaker 1: on the outside and he thought it would be unfair
Speaker 1: to the other girls to sort of lead them along.
Speaker 1: So why don't you decide that when you're in lockdown? Yeah?
Speaker 1: How long has he had this decision? That's ridiculous. So
Speaker 1: he's only just gone on there for a little bit
Speaker 1: of fame. Let's boost up my to be honest, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's not really that much fame I don't think to
Speaker 1: gain from one episode. It's quite interesting because the Love
Speaker 1: Island UK winter series is actually eight hundred thousand viewers
Speaker 1: down in the ratings from last year. Is that one episode.
Speaker 1: There were a couple of episodes. This is the first episode,
Speaker 1: so they got two point five million people in the
Speaker 1: UK who watched it, and that was down from eight
Speaker 1: hundred thousand compared to the first episode of the summer series.
Speaker 1: And it's quite interesting because I've gone and had a
Speaker 1: little look on the Instagram accounts of the New Islanders
Speaker 1: and you know, normally they're like huge. Some of them
Speaker 1: have only got about eighty seven thousand followers. That's not
Speaker 1: a lot for one night though, But if you think
Speaker 1: about it, that two point five million people tuned in.
Speaker 1: It's really not. I think that's a pretty good start
Speaker 1: from that, I think that I think people are probably
Speaker 1: seeing the Winter series as a bit of the poor
Speaker 1: Man Series perhaps. I mean, that's maybe why they were
Speaker 1: trying to wow it from with the New Villa. Well,
Speaker 1: I think maybe it's just people in it because it's
Speaker 1: you know, there's been going I think five seasons. Now,
Speaker 1: I could be wrong, but you know, it's always on
Speaker 1: at the same time. It'd be like if they moved
Speaker 1: Maths to Winter. That's what I was worried about, though.
Speaker 1: I was worried about the fact of putting two series
Speaker 1: in the one year. I was excited, but I feel
Speaker 1: like it might dilute the brand a little bit. The
Speaker 1: thing is, I actually think they've chosen the people really
Speaker 1: well and I'm already hooked. I'm like, when I watched
Speaker 1: Love Island Australia, it took so long to watch I
Speaker 1: didn't even watch it. It's my favorite show. It was track,
Speaker 1: it was terrible. I think the person that we haven't
Speaker 1: really touched on though, is Mike, and he was quite
Speaker 1: an interesting character. In his intro video, he said if
Speaker 1: being sexy was a crime, he'd probably be in jail
Speaker 1: by now. Yeah. God, they say the lamest things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can tell. The producers have taught them to say.
Speaker 1: I liked him until he said that, but I think
Speaker 1: I'm going to give him a second chunce. It surprised
Speaker 1: me to hear that he was actually a professional soccer
Speaker 1: player as well. But I do like that he's a
Speaker 1: policeman because I feel like that will a lot to
Speaker 1: the series. It's not like the Australian everyone's like a
Speaker 1: wanna be influencer. Do you think they steered away from
Speaker 1: the typical sports star route because I think he could
Speaker 1: be a fan favorite and they don't want to be
Speaker 1: too much like Obi, who was a basketballer. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I love Obi. Can they bring him back? Well, he's
Speaker 1: broken up with that girl. It's a It is interesting
Speaker 1: that he is a police officer because will he have
Speaker 1: a career to go back to. I mean, he can't
Speaker 1: do undercover now No, Well I don't think he was
Speaker 1: doing undercover because Leanne did ask him, does that mean
Speaker 1: you capture murderers and stuff? And he's like no. He
Speaker 1: looks like he could have been on the bill though.
Speaker 1: I just want to know who you guys think will
Speaker 1: have some longevity on this program, because normally when get
Speaker 1: to the end of the show, there are some people
Speaker 1: that have stayed quite a long time they were in
Speaker 1: the original ten. What do you guys think? I think Shana, Mike,
Speaker 1: and I think Nas might stick around for a bit.
Speaker 1: He might be sort of that unlucky guy, you know, Anton.
Speaker 1: He might be like the Anton of the series, doesn't
Speaker 1: really find someone, but find someone, makes friends with people,
Speaker 1: and then stays like halfway through it. I think Shenie
Speaker 1: will as well. I don't like her, I feel like
Speaker 1: she might once she actually meets someone. I feel like
Speaker 1: she might be kind of cute with them. I reckon
Speaker 1: Mike and Leanne are going to be the golden couple
Speaker 1: of the series. I think that we're gonna see them
Speaker 1: go through some ups and downs. But I think he's
Speaker 1: Mike's really sweet and he's really into her, And because
Speaker 1: she opened up about not being able to open up
Speaker 1: to people, I feel like we're going to see a
Speaker 1: love story come out for those two. I think so
Speaker 1: if he might be a fan favorite as well. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I didn't like it that much. Really, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think really seemed really nice. I'm expecting though, that
Speaker 1: they're going to put in a whole load of male hotties,
Speaker 1: because when you mentioned Anton, although he was probably a
Speaker 1: complete idiot and his mum shaved hisass and everything, he
Speaker 1: did have an amazing body. And I mean, the other
Speaker 1: guys have got okay bodies, but I haven't seen one
Speaker 1: on level with Anton's. Yeah, I haven't really been impressed
Speaker 1: by any of the guys so far, and a completely
Speaker 1: superficial levet, but I feel like that's what normally happens.
Speaker 1: Feel like they kind of bring in the people with
Speaker 1: the best personalities first, so you kind of the view
Speaker 1: as a viewer, you start to like their personality, and
Speaker 1: then they bring in the hot guys like your Tommy.
Speaker 1: And what's going to happen is when the twins pick
Speaker 1: their new people, there's obviously going to be two girls
Speaker 1: floating around, and then they're going to send in the
Speaker 1: big hottie. If everyone's going to bloody, just want to
Speaker 1: recouple with that person. Yeah, that's probably all we have
Speaker 1: time for. I think we could probably speak about this
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