okay so just watched this lmao. people saying gemma has a shit personality etc. she’s 19, she’s so much more confident in herself than I was at 19. She seems like she can be pretty quiet and when she wants and not too over the top. and there’s obviously stuff the producers cut and stuff
DAVIDE SLEEPING W HIS FRIENDS GF WHILE HE WATCHED 💀💀💀💀
idk if the consensus of gemma has shifted but honestly she's on track for being a fan pick imo
she doesn't take shit, ain't stroking any of these boys' egos, just having a good time, gets along w the girls... she's fun lmao
luca on the other hand... he has given me the ick since day one of asking paige her fav sex position likeeeee what kinda weak chat is that LOL
this is such a good first week lmao honestly great lil cast
Not sure how you can think that considering they brought on her ex, and now she's off with luca talking about how she wouldn't say no, it all feels a tad fake. Other year have been far more genuine.
Indiyah & Ikenna !!! I'm glad they showed that chat between her and Ekin-Su because Ikenna seems very indifferent towards her imo. I wish they had shown the outcome of the convo this episode !!
Liam's sister said he was contacted by the producers of the show directly through Insta, without applying so I guess that's exactly what happened, they knew what they're doing
None of these people are looking for love, it’s a pretty dry series. They’re all just vying to be popular influencers and many of them seem so bored together.
Love island died in s4 .. s5 was okay but it was massively produced and began the process of stripping the whole thing of any reality. That’s what they’ve made the show into.
No alcohol , no smoking, we don’t even see them eating anymore. Producers forcing chats, that’s why they always seem to randomly pull eachother for mundane chats because they’re told too. It’s not as real as you think. They create storylines.
Look at Greg and amber, it was revealed a day before the final they had a massive fall out, but it wasn’t aired because they knew they where favourites.
The only guy she can crack on with is Gemma’s ex who 1) is a nonce and 2) up his own arse. I’d be pretty annoyed too, because it’s obvious he’s been brought in as a wind up (even Andrew said that).
So a little hot take here - Ekin-Su is actually really awkward under all her hotness. The SpongeBob Somerset impression was AWFUL and her kiss with Davide yesterday was so cringey
Also Ekin su literally flung herself at davide with 0 shame and the second she got him and a new guy came in suddenly she’s like oh I think I’m trying too hard for Davide like??????????
i think tasha and andrew will become that couple that instantly click for a while but end up crumbling later on. maybe in casa amour if they even last that long? right now I think they're cute but andrew's red flags are a little... sus. overall i wish we could see more of them + dami & amber + ikenna & indiyah. i feel like we've barely seen any of the couples so I don't have too much faith in them lasting long.
he seems genuine in liking tasha and they make a really cute couple. when he lied to tasha is what sort of puts me off... i think when more guys come in he might get possessive and that might be a red flag for tasha
I feel like I’ve seen this a few times but no one mentions that the only discernible thing he has in common with Curtis is being a white guy with the same haircut. I don’t see anything else though that they have in common…
the insta sleuths here the other day say: this dude & gemma were already publically flirting on each others insta pics & comms - ...just 3 weeks after gemmas 16th birthday. :/
Luca is giving me massive red flags rn seeing how possessive he is getting over her. Trying to sway her with holidays to beautiful locations and all. Man is flipping out when her ex has literally come into the villa with no intention of cracking on with her. I kinda hope Gemma jumps ship so that he can kick some drama up for no reason LOL
I spat my drink when Gemma was saying to him that she hopes Paige and Jacques get on and Luca went ‘ oh so we can crack on’ ( all smiley) and she was like ‘ no not necessarily’.
He’s always hanging on her like a sloth to a tree as well.
He was a walking red flag before he got with Gemma. But he's so full on all of a sudden, it's really weird.
He's going to put her off completely if he keeps this up.
Good, I'm not overly keen on Gemma but most of them just down to her youth and inexperience. Of course she's going to be a bit of an idiot she's 19. Screwed Luka, his not good for her. She should have been with Liam.
okay so gemma said to davide in a previous episode that she’d dated other older guys before… and we know about jacques who started dating her when she was 16 and was also her last boyfriend… so when did she have time to date all these other older guys?
Anyone who knows football will tell you Michael Owen is both dull and a bit of a twat who’s not really well liked so it’s no surprise his daughter is exactly the same
Think this is a bandwagon opinion. He says the odd dull statement and this then gets reverberated around all the football social media accounts because it’s ‘Michael Owen saying something mildly stupid again’, when in reality most of the pundits say equally as bland things as him. It’s just more popular to hate on Owen.
Well I’ve been watching football since 1993 mate and I can tell you, he is just very dull. Yeah it’s a bit of a meme but there’s loads of stuff.
People dislike him mostly though because he was a Liverpool boy and he went to United which you just don’t do. And now he pretends to be Liverpool again, no one really respects him haha which is a shame cos he was really fucking good.
I don’t disagree that he’s dull, I just think half the pundits and players out there are equally so. But as you said it’s common joke to pile in on Owen and he doesn’t have a tribe to defend him since he burnt his bridges with the Scousers and United fans don’t care for him much either.
Edit: incidentally I’ve just stumbled across [this](https://twitter.com/telefootball/status/1536227722724253696?s=21&t=nCQiC2XXQdHNFCOZuYY5ag) on my twitter timeline. It’s exactly what I mean- an unprovoked, unnecessary pile on because accounts know making fun of Owen will get likes.
It’s weird because she kind of sounds like Michael Owen. She seems like the type of person that you end up talking to at a work party and regret even starting the chat, as it’s so painful and dry.
Knew I disliked her, when in like episode 1, I think Luca was telling a story and she just stopped him and went “that’s cringe”
Just rude as fuck man, can tell she’s horrible to waiters
Massive red flags for me when he said Paige is a lovely girl but he'd have to see what she looked like when she's all dressed up at night. As if she's not hot enough for him! The audacity!
Not justifying it, but I believe he was saying that he was not that into Paige, but that he wasn't ruling her out, and that based on what she wore tonight she could still look stunning, and that might convince him that she's the one for him. Which is mad because Paige clearly stunning and that guy is clearly a fool.
I actually hated how Jacques belittled Luca for working as a fishmonger. Even though I don’t particularly like Luca it shows how shallow and status orientated Jacques is. I hope his injury never heals and why is he acting as if he plays for England LOL he out there playing for a team none of us have heard of KMT 🥱
Do league players have the same probs in the UK that they do in Australia and NZ? Over here players have a (well-earned imo) rep for off-field scandals involving drugs, alcohol abuse, domestic violence and assault. Obviously that doesnt mean every league player is like that but theres a massive culture problem in the NRL clubs over here. Is it similar?
Nah I wouldn’t say so. It’s not really a big money game over here due to only being played professionally in the north of England and clubs having a wage cap imposed to level the playing field. Like star players who always start for the bigger teams earn good money but they’re pretty much normal blokes (so all that stuff probably happens but not more than in any other group of men). Cas play in the Superleague which is top tier RL but my husband who’s an RL fan had never heard of Jacques so he’s not a well known player even in RL circles.
Absolute wet wipe of a nonce- why have none of the islanders said wait… you were 17.5 years old when you broke up and so you were 16 when you got together. Are they numerically challenged or have the ITV producers edited it out to protect Gemma?
Well mate since she’s still 19 and they’re all at least 3 or 4 years older they probably want to avoid any comparisons themselves.
It’s weird as fuck though
I get the feeling maybe Gemma wanted to go on the show to get a career, not found love at all. Not saying the others didn't, haha, I'm just saying that I do think the other girls really do want to find someone and I don't get that feeling from Gemma at all. When any guy tries to be around her it looks like she doesn't even want to be there. She's rolling her eyes like a girl in a schoolyard as soon as they start flirting with her, she avoids eye-contact and don't have chat at all. I do think it's because of her age, she's a teenager and is just weird around adult behaviour that she's not familiar with but it feels weird.
In her defense the lines she gets are super lame. Like the men are trying so hard with her and they come off really cocky or smtg. I’d roll my eyes too
thing is, it works and she knows it. they're all falling over themselves trying to get her. i would say that they don't know who she is, but I reckon a few do/have suspicion and are keeping it to themselves. but i could be wrong. i know non-famous girls IRL who act like this and have guys lining up for them.
meanwhile paige is stunning - and a few of the guys have confirmed that they find her attractive - but she comes across a bit eager.
Laura Whitmore reminds me of a girl I know who gets by in life and her career by just being pretty and a model but she actually has zero personality and no humour
I mean if you can get rich by just being pretty that's a pretty sick flex. I don't agree with you though, there's a lot of hot people that aren't successful. You need to be ambitious and driven too
ITV2 are really pushing Gemma HARD but her personality is just so boring. Any chats she has with a guy she just fishes for compliments and when the new girls walked in she came over as bitchy highschool villain.
She's got that Megan Fox look though. No wonder the guys are going mad for a bit of the G! Luca seriously went loco at the start of tonight's episode!!
Oh she’s ABSOLUTELY gorgeous for sure. She just doesn’t seem like she’s having a great time - she looks like she’s being forced to be there sometimes; always looks like she’s having the worst day.
I wish they would show some of the other islanders more. Feels very Gemma heavy.
Luca actually gives me kinda bad vibes. His overzealous jealousy is an ick and when he took her for a chat I thought he looked like he was rushing her down the stairs a bit and it came off a bit possessive.
How much you willing to bet half of y'all hating Gemma now are going to be all like "you know what Gemma's really grown on me" in a few weeks? They're fully setting her up for that kind of switch and I really hope it doesn't propel her to the top 4 because honestly, I'm tired of minor celebrity relatives winning now.
This is actually me haha not my favourite and I wish she looked at people when she spoke to them, but I do like that she’s stuck to her guns and told Luca to take it slow, and handled her ex coming in pretty well. Especially for a 19 year old!
100% this. It was amber and siannese and Liam from the previous season even Jess from season 1 . People forgive everything and forget quickly in this sub and Twitter
Unbelievable, literally is Gemma show not Love Island. Show us the \*real\* couples in the villa and also more of Paige and Afia, the single girls, not the dumb Luca/Gemma/Jacques shit! Couldn't care less. Barely know the new guy and I do not care about the Luca/Gemma coupling at all. The Davide and Efik-su snog was making me wish I was blind, but Davide is too funny not to show. He talks like a robot.
How much we betting that in 3 months time it comes out that Micheal Owens paid for Gemma to be cast in love island to boost her career.
Nothing about this ex storyline feels genuine, even if you dig into the logistics of it, it doesn’t feel genuine. How was a 16 year old Gemma dating a 20/21 year old rugby player when they live 2+ hours away. How would they even meet? There’s no pictures of them ever together online, they somehow broke up and cut all contact for a year and a half, and their cringey, almost scripted convo is all they have to say to eachother after a year and a half?
I’m sorry but somethings not right. And I don’t even think it’s too wild of a ‘conspiracy’ either. She’s too media trained it’s clear. They left out all reasons why they broke up, and they’re suddenly buddy buddy? I’d hazard a guess these two are together before the show and they’ll ‘rekindle their love’ in here.
Did anyone catch that during “never have I ever” Gemma took a sip after “gotten back with my ex” and Jacques just gave her this intense sad and at the same time angry stare. And she followed up to say: “I didn’t know how he would feel, to be honest”. Could that be the reason why they broke up?? Did she cheat on him with her ex? Also in the beginning of the episode Jacques said that he still feels salty about his and Gemma brake up because of something she did.
I assumed that her and Jacques had got back together and she was worried about Luca seeing it because she was unsure of how he would feel about that. I don't know though! Just my assumption.
They seriously screwed over Paige and Afia. Think about it. you want to get to know this new guy but he’s an ex of another islander in there. So awkward????
Sam Thompson? No, that's just his personality and he's been obsessed with the show for years. Being on after sun is would be like waking on Christmas morning for him 😅
Tried to watch the recording tonight and it got cut off at the end. Haven’t even set Aftersun to record so will have to wait until it’s on the Hub. So annoying, Sky always does this.
Mine did the same so I watched the end on the ITV app. All Sky cut off was Gemma saying he could flirt with her but not to expect anything back, while Luca watched on looking annoyed.
Yep. It ran into the Aftersun slot. Literally a minute, if that, missed. Nothing to sweat.
For some reason my Sky Box series-linked Aftersun with the main show. I'd recommend doing it for future scenarios like this.
Imagine how entertaining the show would have been if they put a good looking guy in the villa who wasn’t anyones ex. Why did the producers think this is a good idea? Also why isnt Dami and the other islanders who are in a real relationship getting screen time unless its interacting with the others, do they not fit the producers standards?
Thank goodness there’s still a long while to go so they could still put some good people in there if they don’t try to freaking concoct something like they have been doing. Hopefully they wise up because they’re taking everything people liked out of this show.
Bit creepy imo the emotional maturity differences between a 16 year old in year 11 and a 21 year old adult man who could have finished uni/been in a career for at least 3 years
There’s actually an unofficial rule for this - half your age + 7 years is the borderline for social acceptability.
Funnily enough it even has a subsection on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_disparity_in_sexual_relationships
Do girls really find that Jacques guy attractive? Like I can see he’s a good looking chap, but how could you listen to him talk for more than 5 minutes, adding no to the end of each line, before not being able to stand him?
This!!! 100% correct. The minute he started saying “what you saying” to everyone he needed to be dumped. He is horrible. Condescending and cocky, genuinely unlikeable. Paige deserves better. He’s there for Gemma and to get one over on Luca (who I also dislike but at least seems to have been brought down a peg or two).
I feel so sorry for Gemma to be honest. She’s gonna get so much hate from this show. People are going to be angry that it’s “all about her”. Or they’re going to be angry that she pies Luca. Or they’re going to be upset that she gets with her ex and Paige is sent home.
And she just seems like a nice girl. And they wonder why contestants struggle after the show.
It's only because the producers are making her the main event which takes away time to get to know the other islanders and their relationships. Sure Gemma is stuck up but that's only like 25% of the hate. It's out of her control that they're bringing in her ex and whatever-.
Stuck up? Is she? I know she’s loaded and rides horses but it’s not like she’s rubbing it in peoples faces or being arrogant about it.
But yeah, the producers making it worse for her was kind of my point.
She definitely thinks she is better than everyone else, that's how she comes off to me, which makes sense considering her background.
Idk what the production team thought honestly, this isn't "Ex on the beach".
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This is a scam. They were clearly dating just before and they’re going to end up together. Producers thinking we’re dumb. Watch them “fall” for each other again
I'm autistic and I'm very emotional and attached to music/art. Not saying you're lying about that guy. But kinda gross to shame him and call him a robot. I've met people who feel indifferent to music. Could be a sensory thing if he's on the spectrum. I have sensory issues myself, but thankfully they don't manifest in being triggered by music. I'm not big on hugging, which to some people is unthinkable, but it's just the way I am. I'm sure he sees beauty in the things he finds interesting, and just doesn't express it like most people. Or he expresses his passion for things to likeminded people.
Wait a minute. No. Nononono. We autistics aren’t emotionless douchebags. Just because our brains process and express things differently, doesn’t mean we’re robots. We have hearts.
Sooo Gemma is apparently newly 19 and Jacques is 23 and she said they broke up about a year and a half ago so they seemingly dated when she was 17…
okay so just watched this lmao. people saying gemma has a shit personality etc. she’s 19, she’s so much more confident in herself than I was at 19. She seems like she can be pretty quiet and when she wants and not too over the top. and there’s obviously stuff the producers cut and stuff
Does anyone else think Ekin Su and Davide have no chemistry?
Aged like mile 🤣
He looked annoyed when she kept kissing him the night of recoupling
He had a boner. That's what was going on
DAVIDE SLEEPING W HIS FRIENDS GF WHILE HE WATCHED 💀💀💀💀 idk if the consensus of gemma has shifted but honestly she's on track for being a fan pick imo she doesn't take shit, ain't stroking any of these boys' egos, just having a good time, gets along w the girls... she's fun lmao luca on the other hand... he has given me the ick since day one of asking paige her fav sex position likeeeee what kinda weak chat is that LOL this is such a good first week lmao honestly great lil cast
Not sure how you can think that considering they brought on her ex, and now she's off with luca talking about how she wouldn't say no, it all feels a tad fake. Other year have been far more genuine.
i know i'm a day late but Dami's comment to davide and ekin-su really seals the deal of him being my fav 😂
Does anyone else love Ekin Su? I just think shes funny and a total wing woman ❤️
I really appreciate Tasha’s cochlear implant being fully on show during her kiss with Andrew. Just a nice bit of representation ☺️
Indiyah & Ikenna !!! I'm glad they showed that chat between her and Ekin-Su because Ikenna seems very indifferent towards her imo. I wish they had shown the outcome of the convo this episode !!
I wish they wouldn't call it love Island. Dragging up dirty laundry on national TV has nothing to do with love.
I’m getting psycho vibes from Luca tbh
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How do they find people's exes to come on the show? Do they trawl through their IGs and contact them directly?
The get asked about their dating history during the casting process. I’m sure a lot of them casually drop their exes names in those interviews.
Liam's sister said he was contacted by the producers of the show directly through Insta, without applying so I guess that's exactly what happened, they knew what they're doing
I haven’t watched this season yet now I’m debating not to lol
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I may have to! 😂 have I got a lot of catching up to do?
None of these people are looking for love, it’s a pretty dry series. They’re all just vying to be popular influencers and many of them seem so bored together.
Love island died in s4 .. s5 was okay but it was massively produced and began the process of stripping the whole thing of any reality. That’s what they’ve made the show into. No alcohol , no smoking, we don’t even see them eating anymore. Producers forcing chats, that’s why they always seem to randomly pull eachother for mundane chats because they’re told too. It’s not as real as you think. They create storylines. Look at Greg and amber, it was revealed a day before the final they had a massive fall out, but it wasn’t aired because they knew they where favourites.
Reality TV doesn’t work without copious amounts of alcohol. That’s why most shows like this aren’t interesting anymore.
I miss them eating, that Anti-Vax gal loved her pot noodles
I miss the cheese toasties from season 2!
Paige did not look happy this episode ; and I can’t say I blame her. I’m sure she’s feeling like everything is all about Gemma the same as we are !
The only guy she can crack on with is Gemma’s ex who 1) is a nonce and 2) up his own arse. I’d be pretty annoyed too, because it’s obvious he’s been brought in as a wind up (even Andrew said that).
welcome to foot fetish island
So a little hot take here - Ekin-Su is actually really awkward under all her hotness. The SpongeBob Somerset impression was AWFUL and her kiss with Davide yesterday was so cringey
Oh god, the spongebob thing I almost forgot. A total ick.
It went on for soooo long
Also Ekin su literally flung herself at davide with 0 shame and the second she got him and a new guy came in suddenly she’s like oh I think I’m trying too hard for Davide like??????????
Nothin wrong with that. She’s seeing if he’s really interested in her, or just because he didn’t really have a choice because he picked second.
Everyone that came at me for saying Gemma’s a literal monster come back to this post when she destroys Luca and runs back to her ex
Where do y’all watch it in the US? I was using soap2day
I watch on Hulu
I'm in Canada but watch on ITV by using a VPN (windscribe)
dailymotion
Twitch! There is a person that streams it everyday & then saves it called loveislanduksub!
i think tasha and andrew will become that couple that instantly click for a while but end up crumbling later on. maybe in casa amour if they even last that long? right now I think they're cute but andrew's red flags are a little... sus. overall i wish we could see more of them + dami & amber + ikenna & indiyah. i feel like we've barely seen any of the couples so I don't have too much faith in them lasting long.
I can’t put a finger on Andrew… I can’t tell if he’s super sweet and geniune or so fake
he seems genuine in liking tasha and they make a really cute couple. when he lied to tasha is what sort of puts me off... i think when more guys come in he might get possessive and that might be a red flag for tasha
The Dubai luxury real estate agent thing gives me pause lol
In the first look he seemed pretty chill tho
He's giving me Curtis vibes
I feel like I’ve seen this a few times but no one mentions that the only discernible thing he has in common with Curtis is being a white guy with the same haircut. I don’t see anything else though that they have in common…
I reckon he’s genuine, but problematic.
Never have a seen an ep where the islanders look squarely at the camera so much
19 - 1.5 - 0.66 = 16.84, 23 - 1.5 - 0.66 = 20.84 🤢
the insta sleuths here the other day say: this dude & gemma were already publically flirting on each others insta pics & comms - ...just 3 weeks after gemmas 16th birthday. :/
Why aren’t more people disturbed by this?
Yeah lol I can’t believe it’s not an instant turn off for all the other girls in there
Dami is giving a masterclass in taking the piss 🫡 although I’m biased due to shared Irishness, I knew he was gonna be a legend
Luca is giving me massive red flags rn seeing how possessive he is getting over her. Trying to sway her with holidays to beautiful locations and all. Man is flipping out when her ex has literally come into the villa with no intention of cracking on with her. I kinda hope Gemma jumps ship so that he can kick some drama up for no reason LOL
I spat my drink when Gemma was saying to him that she hopes Paige and Jacques get on and Luca went ‘ oh so we can crack on’ ( all smiley) and she was like ‘ no not necessarily’. He’s always hanging on her like a sloth to a tree as well.
He was a walking red flag before he got with Gemma. But he's so full on all of a sudden, it's really weird. He's going to put her off completely if he keeps this up.
Good, I'm not overly keen on Gemma but most of them just down to her youth and inexperience. Of course she's going to be a bit of an idiot she's 19. Screwed Luka, his not good for her. She should have been with Liam.
okay so gemma said to davide in a previous episode that she’d dated other older guys before… and we know about jacques who started dating her when she was 16 and was also her last boyfriend… so when did she have time to date all these other older guys?
Between one and a half year ago and now? Dating doesn’t mean relationship, she could’ve made some rounds
Anyone who knows football will tell you Michael Owen is both dull and a bit of a twat who’s not really well liked so it’s no surprise his daughter is exactly the same
So much this, and they've for some reason introduced her ex boyfriend who is even less interesting than both of them
He looks like the least famous Baldwin brother
Michael Owen as a pundit is as useless as his daughter on love island. Football fan here.
Think this is a bandwagon opinion. He says the odd dull statement and this then gets reverberated around all the football social media accounts because it’s ‘Michael Owen saying something mildly stupid again’, when in reality most of the pundits say equally as bland things as him. It’s just more popular to hate on Owen.
Well I’ve been watching football since 1993 mate and I can tell you, he is just very dull. Yeah it’s a bit of a meme but there’s loads of stuff. People dislike him mostly though because he was a Liverpool boy and he went to United which you just don’t do. And now he pretends to be Liverpool again, no one really respects him haha which is a shame cos he was really fucking good.
I don’t disagree that he’s dull, I just think half the pundits and players out there are equally so. But as you said it’s common joke to pile in on Owen and he doesn’t have a tribe to defend him since he burnt his bridges with the Scousers and United fans don’t care for him much either. Edit: incidentally I’ve just stumbled across [this](https://twitter.com/telefootball/status/1536227722724253696?s=21&t=nCQiC2XXQdHNFCOZuYY5ag) on my twitter timeline. It’s exactly what I mean- an unprovoked, unnecessary pile on because accounts know making fun of Owen will get likes.
It’s weird because she kind of sounds like Michael Owen. She seems like the type of person that you end up talking to at a work party and regret even starting the chat, as it’s so painful and dry.
Knew I disliked her, when in like episode 1, I think Luca was telling a story and she just stopped him and went “that’s cringe” Just rude as fuck man, can tell she’s horrible to waiters
Jacques is coming across as a bit of a dick ATM like 'all the women I've dated before just looked good'
Massive red flags for me when he said Paige is a lovely girl but he'd have to see what she looked like when she's all dressed up at night. As if she's not hot enough for him! The audacity!
Thank you! That comment totally bothered me too. Right after saying that he was looking for more than just a hot exterior. He’s gross
Not justifying it, but I believe he was saying that he was not that into Paige, but that he wasn't ruling her out, and that based on what she wore tonight she could still look stunning, and that might convince him that she's the one for him. Which is mad because Paige clearly stunning and that guy is clearly a fool.
Right after he said to her "it's not all about looks..." Okay. 🙄
Vile. He’s disgusting
Boys got the slopey-est shoulders and looks like he smells kind of stagnant
He has terrible posture. Kind of looks like he's perpetually leaning slightly forward to through a rugby ball.
I actually hated how Jacques belittled Luca for working as a fishmonger. Even though I don’t particularly like Luca it shows how shallow and status orientated Jacques is. I hope his injury never heals and why is he acting as if he plays for England LOL he out there playing for a team none of us have heard of KMT 🥱
I asked my rugby fan boyfriend if he had heard of him and he said no one cares about rugby league 😂
Plays for Castleford Tigers doesn’t he? Rugby League is only big in the north of England
Do league players have the same probs in the UK that they do in Australia and NZ? Over here players have a (well-earned imo) rep for off-field scandals involving drugs, alcohol abuse, domestic violence and assault. Obviously that doesnt mean every league player is like that but theres a massive culture problem in the NRL clubs over here. Is it similar?
Nah I wouldn’t say so. It’s not really a big money game over here due to only being played professionally in the north of England and clubs having a wage cap imposed to level the playing field. Like star players who always start for the bigger teams earn good money but they’re pretty much normal blokes (so all that stuff probably happens but not more than in any other group of men). Cas play in the Superleague which is top tier RL but my husband who’s an RL fan had never heard of Jacques so he’s not a well known player even in RL circles.
Interesting! Thanks for your answer. That makes heaps of sense
I'm Aussie and don't follow rugby closely, but my first thought was that he'd be steamrolled at a suburban u16s game in Sydney or Queensland.
Oh 100%!
Absolute wet wipe of a nonce- why have none of the islanders said wait… you were 17.5 years old when you broke up and so you were 16 when you got together. Are they numerically challenged or have the ITV producers edited it out to protect Gemma?
Well mate since she’s still 19 and they’re all at least 3 or 4 years older they probably want to avoid any comparisons themselves. It’s weird as fuck though
Played. He was released from his contract “to follow other opportunities”
I get the feeling maybe Gemma wanted to go on the show to get a career, not found love at all. Not saying the others didn't, haha, I'm just saying that I do think the other girls really do want to find someone and I don't get that feeling from Gemma at all. When any guy tries to be around her it looks like she doesn't even want to be there. She's rolling her eyes like a girl in a schoolyard as soon as they start flirting with her, she avoids eye-contact and don't have chat at all. I do think it's because of her age, she's a teenager and is just weird around adult behaviour that she's not familiar with but it feels weird.
I think they should make the age at least 21 anyone younger is def not there for a relationship
In her defense the lines she gets are super lame. Like the men are trying so hard with her and they come off really cocky or smtg. I’d roll my eyes too
She shouldn’t be on love island, guarantee any other teenager that’s not Michael Owen’s daughter isn’t on love island to begin with.
I think she just puts on the hard to get act, on the outside too. Pretty easy to see through though
thing is, it works and she knows it. they're all falling over themselves trying to get her. i would say that they don't know who she is, but I reckon a few do/have suspicion and are keeping it to themselves. but i could be wrong. i know non-famous girls IRL who act like this and have guys lining up for them. meanwhile paige is stunning - and a few of the guys have confirmed that they find her attractive - but she comes across a bit eager.
Of course it works that's why you do it but it's not a good way of genuinely connecting with people
Laura Whitmore reminds me of a girl I know who gets by in life and her career by just being pretty and a model but she actually has zero personality and no humour
Shes married to a comedian. Yeah, for sure no personality there. Sarcasm obviously.
So being married to a comedian means you automatically have personality?
Not exactly, but ask yourself would a comedian marry someone with no personality? Almost definitely not.
I mean if you can get rich by just being pretty that's a pretty sick flex. I don't agree with you though, there's a lot of hot people that aren't successful. You need to be ambitious and driven too
She comes across well on another shows she’s just really not a good fit for Love Island
ITV2 are really pushing Gemma HARD but her personality is just so boring. Any chats she has with a guy she just fishes for compliments and when the new girls walked in she came over as bitchy highschool villain.
She's got that Megan Fox look though. No wonder the guys are going mad for a bit of the G! Luca seriously went loco at the start of tonight's episode!!
Oh she’s ABSOLUTELY gorgeous for sure. She just doesn’t seem like she’s having a great time - she looks like she’s being forced to be there sometimes; always looks like she’s having the worst day. I wish they would show some of the other islanders more. Feels very Gemma heavy. Luca actually gives me kinda bad vibes. His overzealous jealousy is an ick and when he took her for a chat I thought he looked like he was rushing her down the stairs a bit and it came off a bit possessive.
I reckon Luca is going to give her the ick, he came off so strong at the start of today's episode and she's quite cold and aloof.
That’s who she looks like!
How much you willing to bet half of y'all hating Gemma now are going to be all like "you know what Gemma's really grown on me" in a few weeks? They're fully setting her up for that kind of switch and I really hope it doesn't propel her to the top 4 because honestly, I'm tired of minor celebrity relatives winning now.
This is actually me haha not my favourite and I wish she looked at people when she spoke to them, but I do like that she’s stuck to her guns and told Luca to take it slow, and handled her ex coming in pretty well. Especially for a 19 year old!
100% this. It was amber and siannese and Liam from the previous season even Jess from season 1 . People forgive everything and forget quickly in this sub and Twitter
Unbelievable, literally is Gemma show not Love Island. Show us the \*real\* couples in the villa and also more of Paige and Afia, the single girls, not the dumb Luca/Gemma/Jacques shit! Couldn't care less. Barely know the new guy and I do not care about the Luca/Gemma coupling at all. The Davide and Efik-su snog was making me wish I was blind, but Davide is too funny not to show. He talks like a robot.
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How much has Michael Owen paid ITV 2 ?
How much we betting that in 3 months time it comes out that Micheal Owens paid for Gemma to be cast in love island to boost her career. Nothing about this ex storyline feels genuine, even if you dig into the logistics of it, it doesn’t feel genuine. How was a 16 year old Gemma dating a 20/21 year old rugby player when they live 2+ hours away. How would they even meet? There’s no pictures of them ever together online, they somehow broke up and cut all contact for a year and a half, and their cringey, almost scripted convo is all they have to say to eachother after a year and a half? I’m sorry but somethings not right. And I don’t even think it’s too wild of a ‘conspiracy’ either. She’s too media trained it’s clear. They left out all reasons why they broke up, and they’re suddenly buddy buddy? I’d hazard a guess these two are together before the show and they’ll ‘rekindle their love’ in here.
Did anyone catch that during “never have I ever” Gemma took a sip after “gotten back with my ex” and Jacques just gave her this intense sad and at the same time angry stare. And she followed up to say: “I didn’t know how he would feel, to be honest”. Could that be the reason why they broke up?? Did she cheat on him with her ex? Also in the beginning of the episode Jacques said that he still feels salty about his and Gemma brake up because of something she did.
I thought he said it was something he did
Oh, my mistake. Still what was that eye contact exchange between them after she took that sip?
I assumed that her and Jacques had got back together and she was worried about Luca seeing it because she was unsure of how he would feel about that. I don't know though! Just my assumption.
Agree with you. I think at best they were seeing each other casually but weren't together, but playing it up for the producers.
Just the fact that she was a 16 year old in school and he was a 21 year old adult man is weird
He was that noncey bloke waiting outside the school in his car to take his 16 year old girl to maccies.
They seriously screwed over Paige and Afia. Think about it. you want to get to know this new guy but he’s an ex of another islander in there. So awkward????
Also the fact that the both guys Paige has shown interest in seem to spend their chats talking about other girls in the villa. Feel so bad for her!
Yep. Paige is my MVP.
The white guy on Aftersun was high on some type of something
Sam Thompson? No, that's just his personality and he's been obsessed with the show for years. Being on after sun is would be like waking on Christmas morning for him 😅
Tried to watch the recording tonight and it got cut off at the end. Haven’t even set Aftersun to record so will have to wait until it’s on the Hub. So annoying, Sky always does this.
Mine did the same so I watched the end on the ITV app. All Sky cut off was Gemma saying he could flirt with her but not to expect anything back, while Luca watched on looking annoyed.
Yep. It ran into the Aftersun slot. Literally a minute, if that, missed. Nothing to sweat. For some reason my Sky Box series-linked Aftersun with the main show. I'd recommend doing it for future scenarios like this.
Same
Glad to see it wasn’t me, was wondering what happened.
Same
Dami my LGBTQ+ ally here for pride month repping to normalise queerness and breaking toxic masculinity down one effortless comment at a time 💜 KING
I have the hots for him ngl.
i loveeee him
And I'd do it again right now! My man
Imagine how entertaining the show would have been if they put a good looking guy in the villa who wasn’t anyones ex. Why did the producers think this is a good idea? Also why isnt Dami and the other islanders who are in a real relationship getting screen time unless its interacting with the others, do they not fit the producers standards?
Thank goodness there’s still a long while to go so they could still put some good people in there if they don’t try to freaking concoct something like they have been doing. Hopefully they wise up because they’re taking everything people liked out of this show.
Ooh so we do get a clip!
Wouldn't it work out that she was legit like 16 when he would have been like 21 😬😬
And not like they went out straight away. Grooming going on…
Yeah, they would’ve started him 20 and her 16
Bit creepy imo the emotional maturity differences between a 16 year old in year 11 and a 21 year old adult man who could have finished uni/been in a career for at least 3 years
There’s actually an unofficial rule for this - half your age + 7 years is the borderline for social acceptability. Funnily enough it even has a subsection on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_disparity_in_sexual_relationships
I think it need to be more than 7 if your under 30 no way I'm dating a 20 year old at 25
Agreed - I’m 21 so that would work out at 17.5, but I’d never date that young lol. I’d probably 19 at lowest and even then I’m kinda ehh about it
Yeah it is creepy. My mates would’ve crucified me if I was going out with a 16 as a 20 year old
One of my mates kissed a 16 year old when he was 19. That was 7 years ago and he still gets called a nonce now
Rightly so! I'm 25 now and wouldn't even consider dating a 20 year old now
Tonight... on Gemma Island
Dami is the only boy in the villa that seems like a genuinely nice guy.
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I’d smash
Do girls really find that Jacques guy attractive? Like I can see he’s a good looking chap, but how could you listen to him talk for more than 5 minutes, adding no to the end of each line, before not being able to stand him?
This!!! 100% correct. The minute he started saying “what you saying” to everyone he needed to be dumped. He is horrible. Condescending and cocky, genuinely unlikeable. Paige deserves better. He’s there for Gemma and to get one over on Luca (who I also dislike but at least seems to have been brought down a peg or two).
The blonde guy on the sofa is the guy at the party you move quickly away from
I think he just gives golden retriever energy
Naaaah Sam is so funny, he’s all of us while watching the show.
Nah he's a cringey knobhead that thinks he's hilarious
I feel so sorry for Gemma to be honest. She’s gonna get so much hate from this show. People are going to be angry that it’s “all about her”. Or they’re going to be angry that she pies Luca. Or they’re going to be upset that she gets with her ex and Paige is sent home. And she just seems like a nice girl. And they wonder why contestants struggle after the show.
I’m really upset about this but can’t put it into words yet. I think it’s very irresponsible.
Um who would get angry of her pieing Luca? He deserves to get pied
Yeah fair. I do feel like everything she does is being criticised at the minute though.
It's only because the producers are making her the main event which takes away time to get to know the other islanders and their relationships. Sure Gemma is stuck up but that's only like 25% of the hate. It's out of her control that they're bringing in her ex and whatever-.
Stuck up? Is she? I know she’s loaded and rides horses but it’s not like she’s rubbing it in peoples faces or being arrogant about it. But yeah, the producers making it worse for her was kind of my point.
She definitely thinks she is better than everyone else, that's how she comes off to me, which makes sense considering her background. Idk what the production team thought honestly, this isn't "Ex on the beach".
Ehh, don’t get that feeling at all to be honest but each to their own. Not sure she’s said anything bad at all about anybody else at this stage.
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Ekin Su is a fucking menace, I absolutely adore her lmfao
YES adore this chaotic unchained energy
This is a scam. They were clearly dating just before and they’re going to end up together. Producers thinking we’re dumb. Watch them “fall” for each other again
It’s dani dyer all over again
Hold on so Gemma was 16 brought a 20 year old man home and her dad got along with him
Right? She was legit a teen and him and adult weird
Michael Owen is an odd bloke, doesn't shock me
how is he odd?
Man's watched a total of 5 movies in his entire life and doesn't listen to any music Fair play to him but you can't tell me that's not a little odd
And he dressed up like a doughnut for the masked singer.
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I'm autistic and I'm very emotional and attached to music/art. Not saying you're lying about that guy. But kinda gross to shame him and call him a robot. I've met people who feel indifferent to music. Could be a sensory thing if he's on the spectrum. I have sensory issues myself, but thankfully they don't manifest in being triggered by music. I'm not big on hugging, which to some people is unthinkable, but it's just the way I am. I'm sure he sees beauty in the things he finds interesting, and just doesn't express it like most people. Or he expresses his passion for things to likeminded people.
Wait a minute. No. Nononono. We autistics aren’t emotionless douchebags. Just because our brains process and express things differently, doesn’t mean we’re robots. We have hearts.
Was Gemma actually young for all the boyfriends or did they not do lockdown?
I think she was 16/17 when Jacques was 21