Love Island 2018: Hurricane Ellie tears through the villa
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Your support makes all the difference.Newbies Ellie and Zara upset the balance in the Love Island villa tonight, exercising their ITV2-given right to flirt with whomever they please and knocking the confidence of several female contestants in the process.
Ellie appeared to give Wes cause to second-guess his decision to get serious with Laura, while Adam straight up confessed that he prefers Zara to Rosie.
Alex, as ever, was caught in the crosshairs, hopefully swinging from the skirts of the new girls in spite of the fact they both seemed to view him as more of a pity date - though the trail for tomorrow night suggested his questionable nacho course at dinner somehow earned him a kiss.
Previously: Cancel the wedding bells, Wes has decided that maybe Laura isn't The One after all and is considering an exploratory flirt with new girl and Laura semi-doppelganger Ellie.
"I think it feels very cold in here, very territorial," Ellie says in the trailer for tonight's episode, but Zara is unfazed. "I don't think it matters," she replies, "we're here, we can do what we want."
The pair must force their way into the dating pool, which is liable to upset Rosie and Laura, the villa spouses of their targets, Adam and Wes.
"Mate I have not had a single chat with one other girl other than Laura since I've been here," Wes says in an epiphanic moment in the kitchen, to which devil-on-his-shoulder Adam replies: "Why don't you change that.
"That's what I'm saying," Wes continues, "the comment that got me was when you said 'yeah you're happy now but who's to say that you couldn't be happier with someone else...'"
To ramp up the original villa girls' jealousy, Ellie and Zara will each dine with three boys tonight, a different boy preparing each of the three courses.
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Follow all the drama and what passes for it in tonight's Love Island episode with our live blog below (please allow a moment for it to load):
Love Island airs every night at 9pm on ITV2 except Saturday, when you're free to wander out into the world.
If you think this series has been a bit tame so far, consider checking out the Australian edition...
Will tonight be the night Alex convinces a human woman to come within 12 feet of him?
15 minutes to go. I've ducked out of the England game because frankly Alex has a better chance of scoring right now
A list minute head worked for Harry Kane, but what about Rosie? It's go time.
The girls try and play it cool, while Eyal and Adam pretend they just have Alex's best interests at heart
Adam tries to soothe Rosie's anxiety by reminding her that he's put a lot of time into her. Ah, nothing gets the ladies swooning like the fallacy of sunk costs!
Alex is concerned that the newcomers might only be interested in him because he's the only sentient male being in the villa without a partner. So concerned that when Samira suggests Ellie isn't the type of girl to be interested in him, he becomes suddenly woke and makes it a prejudice thing
Really enjoying Laura asking Wes just how much he fancies "all the girls" in the villa while ostensibly rubbing his eye, an incredibly sharp fake nail just millimetres from his iris. Honestly if you've been thinking of writing a script there's so much to be stolen from Love Island
"I've got a teeeeeext":
'A woman must copulate with Alex in the next five days or he will be hurled directly into the Sun.'
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