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Love Island: The Programme We Love to Hate (And Hate to Love)

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The original ten islanders of the 2017 line up Thirty years ago, many people never have predicted that the entertainment industry would stoop as low as to put ten singletons in a house and make them couple up after approximately 18 seconds of knowing them. And never did we think it would be so painfully addicting. Love Island, which premièred in 2015 and is now running it's third series, is a television programme based around the ancestral notion that if you put a male and a female together, they'll eventually mate. Two weeks into series three and we've already had two 'couples' fornicate on live TV, with many more likely to follow in the upcoming weeks. The luxury villa in Mallorca includes deck chairs and a swimming pool The Big Brother-esque show sees a number of bronzed peoples between the ages of around twenty and thirty living in a villa in Mallorca for a grand total of seven long weeks. At various stages throughout the process, the membe...