Love Island final catchup: Dani and Jack announced as 2018 winners - as it happened
Crunch time as the four remaining couples hope to win the ITV2 competition
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Your support makes all the difference.Love Island is complete. After two months that have seen fun, fornicating and friendship, along with a solution to the Münchhausen trilemma and cures for at least three diseases, the finale of ITV2's ostensible search for love has finally taken place, with Dani Dyer and Jack Fincham emerging triumphant and splitting the £50,000 prize money.
Dani and Jack were the bookies favourite and have been since they first coupled up very early on in the show. Kaz and Josh were tipped to be second, but were beaten by relatively new couple Laura and Paul. Wes and Megan finished fourth in the final episode, a couple who won each other's heart but never quite the public's.
Relive the Love Island finale with our live blog of the one and a half hour episode below (please allow a moment for the stream to load):
Previously on Love Island we saw Alex and Alexandra booted off the show. Support for the lobster-coloured doctor dwindled over the previous few days after breaking things off with Alexandra, the public finally voting the pair off on 29 July.
Meanwhile, the other contestants met their respective partner's parents, the biggest talking point being when Jack met Danny Dyer (albeit through Skype), the Eastenders actor calling the contestant a "top geezer". Music to Jack's ears.
Here's how you can apply for the 2019 series.
The Love Island live final was broadcast on ITV2 at 9pm and can be streamed on the ITV Hub.
Some of you may have been wondering how you actually vote for your winners. The only way to do it is download the app, with voting closing at 8.45pm.
In case you missed last night's episode, and can't quite muster the energy to watch it all before tonight's final, here's everything that went down:
So we know tonight's episode will not only feature the huge, massive, earth-shattering news of who has one, but also some salsa dancing.
By the looks of it Wes has the moves, but are we finally going to get to see Paul bust out his Britney moves?
In case tonight will be your first time tuning into Love Island (don't worry, you'll catch up), it starts at 9pm on ITV2.
Christopher Hooton here, Culture Editor at The Independent, ready to bring this thing home.
I've wept for Laura. I've wept for the intern whose job it was to watch back every single episode in order to create a supercut of all the times Georgia said "loyal". I've wept for the table I was supposed to be making in the evenings the past 8 weeks.
We've finally made it though, and I'll actually be kind of sad not to spend an hour in the company of these humans - harmless Rodin sculptures brought to life - starting tomorrow, returning to the horrors of the real world.
Just a reminder: the winning couple get £50,000, the runners up are dropped off in Magaluf with a Lucozade and a bus ticket, and the couple placed third are dumped in the Balearic Sea with only a watermelon-shaped pool float.
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