Love Island catch-up: Molly-Mae arrives, Lucie stands up to Joe, and other talking points
All the biggest talking points from the Spanish villa
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Can it really only be day four of Love Island? Then again, Love Island days are something like dog years – while in the real world, for love to be found and hearts to be broken, it takes at least a few months, in the strange, wonderful world of the Love Island villa, all of that happens within the space of just a few hours.
So far, of course, the biggest talking point has been the Joe-Tommy-Lucie love triangle, during which both Joe and Tommy, it must be said, have proven themselves to be pretty shady characters indeed.
Tonight, little changed in that regard. Here are the biggest talking points from the episode, and catch up with the episode as it happened below.
Molly-Mae arrives
So far, there’s not much to report on the newest Islander, 20-year-old Molly-Mae. Despite the fact that her arrival was teased for the entire episode, she only turned up in the last two minutes, and is yet to interact with another Islander. Still, it looks as though drama is on the cards as Tommy heads to meet her in, er, a hot tub. The location of all great first dates.
Operation AAA
What began as the nauseatingly-named "Operation AA" has now become the frankly even more nauseating "Operation AAA" – in which Anton attempts to use Amber to help him wheedle his way into Anna’s affections (are you keeping up?). Anna, meanwhile, seems to have little to no interest in the whole thing. Good on her, frankly.
All hail Amber
If you weren’t already convinced that Amber is the queen of Love Island 2019 (with possible competition from Amy), her iconic eye roll when Joe announced that their brief flirtation was over will surely have done it. So far, Amber has put just about every male islander in their place, and for that, we salute her.
Lucie stands up to Joe
After Ofcom received several complaints about Joe’s “manipulative” behaviour towards Lucie, after he threw an out-of-proportion tantrum when she was picked to go on a date with new arrival Tommy, Lucie has put him firmly in his place. “If you’re flirting with [Amber] behind my back, why can’t I talk to Tommy?” she said. “Chill, take it slow, we’re good, and I can still talk to him.” Quite right.
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FAO Tommy: No good romantic advice begins with, "Just literally, grab her..."
That eye roll from Amber was the most iconic moment of the series so far
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"I'm not gonna compete. That's the thing." I think Sherif might be on the wrong show.
Aaand we'll have to wait a whole 24 hours to see how Tommy's date with Molly-Mae goes.
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