Love Island catch-up: Michael shares a bed with Joanna as show previews pair kissing in next episode
Things are heating up between the Islanders and the Casa Amor residents
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Michael appears to have been cancelled after the latest episode of Love Island.
As the guys from Casa Amor got to know the Islander girls, back at the original villa a lot of heads were being turned. Curtis in particular, who seemed torn over his proclaimed loyalty for Amy, his "half-girlfriend", versus his interest in new girl Jourdan.
Here are some of the key talking points:
The islanders play some love games
A new challenge caused trouble after demanding different contestants kiss one another according to age and height. Molly-Mae got jealous after learning Tommy, the youngest boy, had kissed another girl, while Amber was equally peeved that Michael kissed someone else, given that she refused to take part in the kissing challenges.
Curtis's head is turned, a lot
Curtis is risking his relationship with Amy after admitting that he was interested in Jourdan. However, after hearing him confess said interest, Jourdan then opted to share a bed with Danny and enjoy a lights-out makeout session with him. So Curtish could be risking everything for... nothing.
Anton gets his first kiss
Anton looked genuinely baffled after weeks of being ignored by the women of Love Island, when he was kissed by new contestant Belle, who definitely isn't cosying up to him because she wants to stay on the show whent the next recoupling takes place.
Michael is cancelled
After the trailer for tomorrow night's episode (2 July) aired, viewers expressed their shock on social media after seeing Michael crack on with Joanna, despite professing his loyalty to Amber. "I've officially lost all hope in men," one particularly distressed audience member tweeted. "Goodnight."
The liveblog is now closed:
Love Island continues at 9pm on ITV2, Tuesday 9pm
My friend who is providing wine and reminders of each contestant's name just scolded me because Michael is actually one of the decent ones on this show, and stood up for Yewande when everyone else was being awful to her.
Amber: Michael might be doing something, but then he might not, and I don't know, because he might be doing something and I don't know. You just don't know, do you?
"F*** y'all and put up with it" – Maura when the others complain about the sound of her hooking up with her latest snack.
My friend Alisha says she really wanted Curtis to become more interesting and find something better than Amy, but apparently not everyone appreciates the fact that he is more, shall we say, "cuddly" than the average six-foot-tall, muscle-bound hunk on this show. And lo, the tea was spilled.
I am very much looking forward to the moment Anna walks back into the villa with a seven-foot basketball player and the camera pans to Jordan's face because it will be some of the greatest schadenfreude of any TV show this year.
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