Love Island ? ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz

I decided that I wanted to write a blog post about ‘Love Island’ , the only problem with this is that I’d only ever seen apart of an episode of a celebrity version years ago but as it is now the most watched show on ITV2 I thought I’d find out why .

The idea of the show is that single people live  together on an island , in villas and ‘couple up’ , the couple that is the most popular in the end wins money and probably a chance to be a panellist on other ITV2 shows (or that’s how it seems ) 

The competitors  seem to all be chosen for their looks , the women are pouty , perfectly proportioned, with long hair just right for flicking suggestively when the need arises .

The men , six packs , tans, perfectly styled hair and white teeth .

In the episode I tuned in for there seems to be a theme 

One guy was ‘putting his guts on the table’ and telling a girl that he fancied her as well as a girl that he had been hanging around with for a while and he was undecided about which of them he wanted to ‘couple’ with .

The girl then said that she had feelings for someone else as well as him and so he went back to the first girl .

This happened with another couple and one was even kissing her ‘maybe 2nd choice , maybe 1st choice ‘ man in front of her other option !! 

I have since seen that the first undecided guy has dumped his original girl but I’m sure there will be another new addition to the island that will grab his attention before too long 

I have watched reality tv shows before , I watched most series of Big Brother and the early seasons of Towie , so I’m not anti reality tv  , but the thing that got me with Love Island is it’s just about ‘love’ , pairing up , kissing or talking about love , pairing up and kissing .There doesn’t seem to be any other topic of conversation at all .

Either they are talking about their own pairings or they are dissecting the others , giving advice or gossiping, and that’s what bores me . Maybe this is the editing , maybe they do have other things to talk about but it’s not shown.

In the early seasons of Big Brother you had a variety of people , ages , weights , backgrounds , political views etc 

They talked about a variety of things , they did varying tasks and that was what made it interesting 

I’m afraid Love Island is just like eavesdropping in a Ladies loo at a club on a Saturday night , just ‘he said that , she did this , he doesn’t love me anymore , he cheated on her ‘ and I really don’t know how anyone watches this for an hour every evening 

So I gave it a shot , I can say that I don’t like it , it bores me but I hope that all of the contestants find what they are looking for , be it love or that ITV2 job !! XX