Love Island catch-up: Four Islanders leave the villa in mass dumping
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached the home stretch. There are just a few days to go now until Love Island leaves our screens. And after months of nuanced relationship drama, one thing is clear: all the men on this show end up disappointing you.
First there was Michael, who dumped Amber for Joanna, then Curtis dumped his half-girlfriend Amy, who left the villa in a sorry state, and now Jordan. Despite being one of the few seemingly kind, unproblematic Islanders, Jordan still barely thought twice about dumping Anna for someone he'd know for three minutes.
Tonight, four Islanders were dumped from the villa. I was hoping that Jordan would be among them, and my wish came true. Here are the biggest talking points.
Jordan and Anna sever ties
“I am a strong woman. I will never let someone bring me down and win.” Jordan’s mind-boggling decision – aided by slimeball of the year Curtis – to attempt to woo India two days after asking Anna to be his girlfriend backfired catastrophically. Thank goodness, then, that Anna had her head screwed on correctly.
Baby bash
The day in which the Islanders have to look after fake babies, and thus temporarily lose their heads – behaving like five-year-olds who genuinely believe they’re new parents – is always one of the weirdest days of every series. Last year’s highlight was when Dr Alex (who was otherwise a bit of a wally) accidentally sent his baby flying out of its pram. This year’s was Tommy making his do a backflip and Molly-Mae shouting at him within six milliseconds.
Curtis is awful
That’s it. That’s the talking point.
Four Islanders leave
It was a fairly simple, old-school kind of dumping this evening – the public voted for their favourite couples, and the two with the lowest votes were dumped unceremoniously from the island. The first couple was Harley and Chris, who seem like perfectly fine people but whose loss isn’t an immense one. The second was Anna and Jordan, and frankly Jordan deserved to leave enough for the both of them. “I’m so grateful for you three,” Anna told Maura, Molly-Mae and Amber, “because I feel like I found love. If I could do it again, I would, just because I found you guys.”
Follow along with the action as it happened below.
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"So first of all, I want to apologise." Oh look, Anna was right about Jordan apologising after realising literally no-one was on his side.
Watching two people smiling to hide their more difficult emotions is actually really unnerving.
I don't know what's worst thing that's happened today, Boris Johnson becoming Prime Minister, or the conversation Jordan and Anna just had.
Is it just me, or is the way the Islanders are saying "I've got a text" becoming a little lacklustre?
For a second, I thought Maura was leaving and was about to go on strike. I don't know what from.
"I'm so grateful for you three, because I feel like I found love." My hay fever is really playing up.
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