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.
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The Love Island live final was broadcast on ITV2 at 9pm and can be streamed on the ITV Hub.
Everyone will cry during the vows bit, except Paul who doesn't have tear ducts as they were removed when Pauls were recalled due to the water affecting their circuitry.
For all the cynicism around this show and the premise, six people do genuinely seemed to have actually found love on Love Island. Maybe we all need to delete Tinder and lock ourselves in a pre-fab compound on a Balearic island.
I love when they use the feature film lens on this show. So rare to get to see scenes similar to that found in an Oceana shot like a Sundance winner.
So some absolutely heroic Wikipedia mod has REALLY been keeping on top of this year's re-couplings.
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