‘Love Island’ Faces Backlash for Sending Contestants ‘Cruel’ Postcard

• A bombshell postcard was delivered from Casa Amor to the principle villa on “Love Island.”
• The postcard confirmed Teddy Soares being untrue to his accomplice when the viewers is aware of this isn’t true.
• Followers referred to as broadcaster ITV hypocritical in gentle of its #BeKind marketing campaign.
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Final night time’s episode of ITV’s “Love Island” prompted outrage from followers after the producers despatched a bombshell postcard with compromising photographs of contestants into the principle villa.

This week of the UK hit courting collection is concentrated on the Casa Amor — the second villa, which splits the female and male contestants and introduces a complete host of latest contestants to every to check the islanders’ loyalties.

The postcard was despatched to the unique feminine contestants in the principle villa. It confirmed Teddy Soares, Toby Aromolaran, and Tyler Cruickshank making out with new feminine contestants. Kaz Kamwi, who’s at the moment coupled up with Cruickshank, was left in tears after seeing the photograph.

In the meantime, Winter, who’s coupled up with Soares, mentioned that this revelation confirmed she should not open up on the collection.

Followers on Twitter had been particularly outraged that Soares was proven in such a manner when, in reality, he had been respectful in the direction of his accomplice. Soares had not been sleeping in beds with the brand new feminine contestants not like different male contestants and the kissing photograph was from a sport of reality or dare. Liam Reardon, nevertheless, has been courting a brand new contestant, Lillie Haynes, however was not proven in a nasty gentle within the postcard.

One particular person wrote: “I can not recover from the way in which producers let Liam off frivolously and selected to sew Teddy up as an alternative, to get a response from Faye, when he is been sleeping outdoors.”

—Elliot Gonzalez (@elliot_gonzalez) July 28, 2021

“I am actually not pleased with the producers for f—ing up Teddy and Faye like this,” one other consumer wrote. “The person has been pining for his accomplice greater than some other man. He had the most popular woman in Casa Amor stick it on him and remains to be solely centered on his Mrs. Like why?”

Followers additionally identified that postcard manipulation appears hypocritical in gentle of ITV’s present #BeKind marketing campaign that tries to encourage individuals to cease sending unfavorable messages on social media.

This marketing campaign was spurred on by the suicide of the earlier host of “Love Island,” Caroline Flack. Two earlier contestants,  Sophie Gradon and Mike Thalassitis additionally dedicated suicide after coping with negative media attention after showing on the collection.

Insider Senior Reporter on Digital Tradition  Lindsay Dodgson tweeted: “Emotional manipulation of people who find themselves visibly self aware and who wrestle with confidence is not it #LoveIsland. Have you ever discovered nothing? What occurred to be sort?”

—lindsay dodgson (@linzasaur) July 28, 2021

Journalist Diyora Shadijanova agreed, writing: “It is the very fact ITV took out the lie detector take a look at as a result of #BeKind however nonetheless proceed to mentally torture (and lie) to the women with the postcard???? Wild.”

Shadijanova adopted up, saying: “It might be one factor if what the postcard was considerably correct… eg. Liam really being very into Lillie and Teddy being loyal to Faye. However creating completely totally different narratives is simply unnecessarily merciless to individuals who already wrestle being emotionally weak!”

—Diyora Shadijanova (@thediyora) July 28, 2021

—Diyora Shadijanova (@thediyora) July 28, 2021

In keeping with The Mirror Online, the postcards part of “Love Island” has not been used for the final two collection after greater than 2,500 individuals complained to Ofcom about it in 2018.