An absolutely STUNNING vegan chef is set to enter the Love Island tonight as a surprise arrival, and we're not feeling so great while we scroll through her Instagram.
India Reynolds is a 28-year-old vegan chef and Page 3 model who is set to set pulses racing as she replaces one Islander in tonight's episode.
The brunette beauty only has a few weeks left to make an impression until the end of the series. Either Joanna Chimonides or Michael Griffiths will be kicked out after being voted in the bottom two couples.
An insider source from ITV2 told The Sunthat India was "exactly what the show needs".
hey said: “She’s irresistible and is bound to catch the eye of Anton whose relationship with Belle is hanging on by a thread," the source added. We definitely agree that Micheal's eyes will 100 percent wander.
"As a keen chef she also loves to cook and everyone knows the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach." Pretty sure her job isn't to enter the villa as a domestic cook for a group of boys, but whatever…
The model already has 264,000 followers on Instagram, and almost 3,000 on her vegan Instagram page.
She isn't afraid to show off her gorgeous figure, that's for sure. India regularly posts about mental health as well, offering advice to her followers on numerous occasions.
Which guys will be temped by the brunette, do you think? We reckon…all of them. Except Tommy because he's the OG Loyal Boy.
We're all aware that Love Island isn't exactly the most transparent show on television.
Many of the scenes are orchestrated by the producers, and a number of ex-Islanders have expressed the view that they were treated like "performing monkeys" (Malin Andersson's words, not mine).
The latest mistakes made on last night's show have fuelled claims of the series being a total fix, as audiences spotted the same shop assistant who received Anton's number behind the bar at the club later on;
It's a pretty hilarious error on the part of the producers; they didn't even TRY to hide the poor extra. The woman with never-ending jobs is now the subject of a million internet memes, unluckily for her.
The girl didn't even attempt to disguise herself, which makes it even more entertaining;
The club and shop scenes were massively false, but we lapped it up all the same. Amber Gill's account even referred to it as "illuminati confirmed".
Viewers are also calling the latest plot twist a total fix, after forcing the Islanders to choose between saving Joanna or Michael from the island
Everyone's fairly positive that Michael will be saved purely so he can get back together with ex-flame Amber, who confessed that she still has feelings for Michael last night.
It was all very dramatic, but we all know that Amber is far too good for CHALDISH Michael Griffiths. He doesn't deserve her, end of discussion.
Okay you can STOP messing with our minds now, Love Island, for the love of God.
The latest clip has seen Michael Griffiths turn on the charm again with old flame Amber Gill, admitting he has doubts over his new girl Joanna Chimonides.
A sneak preview for tonight's episode shows the 28-year-old firefighter complimenting his ex, despite dumping her brutally earlier this week.
FIRST LOOK
Michael admits to Amber he's not sure Joanna is everything he wants, and Maura's got her eye on Curtis. Will she make a move? PLOT. TWIST. #LoveIslandpic.twitter.com/Brm2sELpfV
He continues: "The whole Casa Amor thing, the second I saw the girls I went over and introduced myself to all of them.
"Joanna did stand out and the energy she gave off was the energy you gave off when I met you," Michael adds, which makes no sense because Joanna and Amber are nothing alike…
"I didn't know whether she was just 20 per cent of what I wanted or if she will be 80 per cent of what I wanted, and I still don't know."
Amber replies bashfully, saying: "I know I don't open up to people, I don't show people how much I like them.
"And it's my own f***ing fault so I don't know what I expect."
Michael became an enemy of the people for treating Amber so badly on the ITV2 reality show, gaslighting the life out of her and blaming her for his own decision to dump her.
The tattooed contestant explains to her: "I know you've got a heart of gold, you've just got a strange way of showing it sometimes.
"And yeah, you do make me laugh." Amber smiles as she replies: "Yeah, I know that – I know for sure."
She jokes: "Watching you with lovely Joanna who is not catty and lets you talk about your issues but she doesn’t make you laugh as much as me though!"
Newcomer Belle asks Molly-Mae and Maura if they think that Michael still has feelings for Amber, and both women are quick to say that he definitely does.
Sneaky footage leaked has also shown Ovie on a date with Amber, as the fans were begging for, so we wonder will Michael get jealous?
Anyone who tuned in to Love Island last night may have been left Googling a few things, mainly the insult Amber directed at Michael Griffiths and Joanna Chimonides, his new couple partner.
Standing around the fire-pit after the savage decision to dump her by Michael, Amber told the girls: "I’ll be fine. She’s a dead ting so what am I supposed be like, upset?"
Her fans were losing it over the brutal put-down, but most of us hadn't a clue what she was talking about and brushed it off as Geordie slang.
The 21-year-old was called 'childish' multiple times by Michael in an episode that left viewers wanting to throw something at the firefighter, who had bitched about Amber the entire time she was gone.
Image: Urban Dictionary
We resorted to our trusty Urban Dictionary for a defintion of a 'dead ting', and discovered it has two meanings, one being much more polite than the other.
The top meaning is basically a person who bores you to tears; "A boring c*nt and extremely dull". Ouch, but the other one is basically insulting a person's looks. Which is arguably far worse.
Either way, the reaction to her comment was a mixture of rage and humour, and pretty soon the phrase was even trending on Twitter.
Many fans pointed out that Joanna has just essentially taken Amber's former partner, even though Michael is most definitely the bad guy in the situation. The Amber Hive was buzzin':
Joanna needs to chill out about the dead ting comment. You stole her fucking fella, you think she was gunna head straight over and plan a spa day or what? #loveisland
Audiences think Jourdan is shit-stirring behind the original girls' back, having noticed her smirk when Amy returned to Curtis clueless about his betrayal;
Wait didn’t Amber say Michael was a dead ting? And didn’t jourdan just go over and say she called Joanna a dead ting? Bit of shit stirring going on there, not getting good vibes from her at all #loveisland
Amber must have been understandably fuming at the 28-year-old firefighter, who had never said anything negative to her until she was gone to Casa Amor.
Everyone is having a go because Amber called Joanna a dead ting when Joanna has called her childish, immature, a child and muggy before she even met her. Yeah but Amber is the immature one #loveislandpic.twitter.com/ZF87TiQ2dw
Amber is repeatedly called 'immature' and 'childish' by Michael and when she asked him for examples of when he was "biting his tongue" he couldn't cough up ANY.
Joanna calling herself mature has pissed me off so much. This is the confidence that Michael has given her. Because who is SHE? Has she ever spoken to Amber? Dead ting for real. #LoveIsland
We're overwhelmed by all of this riff-raff. People are 100 percent overreacting, as if Amber was going to be braiding Joanna's hair and having a tea party with her? Let her be mad, people.
Don't invalidate the anger of women who have just experienced gaslighting at it's finest and stabbed in the Love Island back, jus' sayin'.
Ex-Love Island reality star Yewande Biala has revealed her real feelings about Curtis Pritchard and Michael Griffiths, currently two of the most hated men in the world.
The scientist branded Curtis as a 'fake' who's operating with a 'game plan', and we have to agree.
The dancer's half-girlfriend last night, Amy Hart, was left absolutely crushed at the news that he'd been "lying from the start" about their relationship and had pursued Jourdan in Casa Amor.
I’m so disappointed ! I don’t even know who he is anymore. What hurts me most is that he hasn’t apologised and deflected all the blame on @AmberRoseGill . Love you https://t.co/bGI00PlTcJ
Curtis admitted that he'd fancied another girl, kissed her twice while carrying out challenges in Casa Amor and had wanted to recouple with her but she declined his offer.
He confessed to Amy that he'd been rejected and it had made him reflect on their seemingly-perfect relationship, telling the boys that he found Amy to be too bitchy.
Speaking about life in the Love Island villa during her appearance on Good Morning Britain today, Yewande said: "I think some people are really genuine and obviously some people have a game plan."
FIRST LOOK
Amy's heart breaks as Curtis tells her the truth about Jourdan, and the villa erupts as Michael and Amber come face-to-face.
Tonight, 9pm on @itv2. #LoveIslandpic.twitter.com/JndfZ3KkGM
Susanna Reid was quick to probe her on who exactly had a game plan in the villa, to which Yewande said: "From watching it yesterday, Curtis really shocked me. I'm still confused about how you can go from 100 to zero really quick.
"He basically said to Amy that he had been lying from the start, which kind of makes you question everything really. Like, did you have a game plan from the start? How have you kept lying to her for four weeks?," she added.
"That's a long time to lie to someone." Yewande was best mates with Amber in the villa and was quick to point out Michael's gaslighting behaviour last night, which has made him an enemy of viewers.
The 28-year-old firefighter decided to recouple with new girl Joanna and claimed the reason was due to Amber's childish personality and immaturity, and that he'd been "biting his tongue" and "not been himself".
When Amber called bullshit and asked for examples, he couldn't cough up a thing.
"I'm really disappointed in the way that he handled the situation," Yewande said. "He didn't want to apologise to Amber and was so quick to call her childish."
She added that while it was "important to go with your gut", all Michael did was "highlight all of Amber's bad qualities" instead of admitting he was just more into Joanna for compatibility reasons.
Yewande added: "He never took responsibility for his actions." Michael ended up feuding with Anna last night and things got heated, and poor Amber kept every ounce of dignity.
She proved that despite her age, she's still the most mature person in that villa.
The family and friends of Love Island's Amy Hart and Amber Gill have absolutely slammed Curtis and Michael over social media, and we have to say…GO OFF.
During last night's insanely dramatic episode of the ITV2 show, Amber was dumped by Michael in favour of new girl Joanna, and Curtis claimed his head was turned by Jourdan (who had zero interest).
The scenes shocked the entire nation, and their loved ones have been finding it difficult to watch their hearts being broken by boys who have completely led them on while they stayed loyal.
Amber Gill’s friend tweeted: “As one of Amber’s friends, that was hard for me to watch. It’s not nice to see your friend in pain and biting their tongue not knowing what to say.
“But it looks like tomorrow Amber and Anna are going to rip him a new a**hole, so it’s all good.”
The mate later sarcastically wrote: “Wouldn’t trust Michael the firefighter to save me from a burning building… might change his mind halfway through, say I’m too young, and leave me there.”
Wouldn’t trust Michael the firefighter to save me from a burning building… might change his mind halfway through, say I’m too young, and leave me there #loveislandpic.twitter.com/Yyz3j9Eapt
— AMBER ROSE OFFICIAL (@AmberRoseGill) July 2, 2019
Amy’s family were clearly finding it hard to watch too. They tweeted: “Oh Amy, girl. YOU ARE NO ONES SECOND CHOICE!” Yes, girl.
After Jourdan carefully let Curtis know that she wasn't interested in him, Amy's Twitter wrote: “What a shame that Curtis got pied.” It included a Beyoncé hair flip Gif, because of course.
In tonight's explosive episode, Curtis comes clean to Amy about his feelings for Jourdan, and she reveals that she was about to declare her love for him;
Amber was deeply shocked to find out that the man who had grafted LONG AND HARD to persuade her to couple up with him had actually ditched her for a brunette he's known three days.
The 21-year-old refused to get to know any of the new boys, despite Dan telling her she'd be the one he'd have wanted to get to know, and was horrofied at the idea of kissing anyone else.
The 28-year-old firefighter had other ideas, happily sharing a bed with Joanna and kissing her. Not to mention, talking smack about Amber to some random girl he barely knows, how's that classy?
michael just decided that he resented amber in her absence??? and now will brand her entirely justified reaction as pathetic??
Asked if he wanted to stay with Amber or choose Joanna, Michael said:
"The last few days have been quite interesting. They've opened my mind to a few things. So the past few days have given me a lot of time to reflect. I've come to the realisation that I've not been true to myself and I've overlooked certain situations that I wouldn't normally do.
"I've bitten my tongue when I wouldn't usually do so. Meeting this girl has brought the Michael that I know and everyone else knows back," he added, throwing shade at Amber FOR NO REASON.
NO ONE WOULD HAVE CARED WHAT MICHAEL DID IF HE WAS HONEST AND DIDNT BITCH ABOUT AMBER FOR FIVE DAYS LIKE A FOURTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL #loveisland
Curtis also admitted that he'd taken a shine to new girl Jourdan, who is clearly into Danny and shared a bed with him. The dancer kissed her on two separate challenges, and admitted he fancied her.
Curtis said: "Amy and I we haven't had any test or bumps in the road and things were going fantastic until a few days ago.
"Basically a young girl walked into the villa and made me realise a lot of things … It made me realise I'd been lying to myself and most of all, to Amy. I just hope everything can be sorted out."
Tune in tonight to see sh*t hit the fan with Amy and Curtis, and Michael and…every single girl in the villa. He's going to need physical protection because he's the most hated man in the nation.
Tom Walker has dropped a few Love Island bombs after appearing on today's This Morning with Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield.
The Ex-Islander has revealed that Michael Griffiths was having huge doubts about his relationship with Amber just days before Casa Amor even began.
Tom revealed that the firefighter had been pulling him aside for secret chats over Amber Gill long before he left the Love Island villa, and we're shook by the sheer RAT vibes of it all.
Michael has become an enemy of the state faster than Tommy can punch, and has shocked viewers by confessing his ambivalence towards Amber.
Audiences were left enraged after he called his couple partner 'childish' to the new girl Joanna, before kissing her and saying that his head has been firmly turned.
Meanwhile, Amber has remained loyal and stoic in Casa Amor, which makes it all the more heartbreaking. She did say Michael looked like the type of guy who could ruin your life, and she wasn't wrong.
Tom spoke about his secret chats with Michael on the ITV show; "Me and Michael had had a chat actually, and he did feel like Amber put him down a little bit," Tom told Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield.
"He was biting his tongue with her just to save the arguing and he started to realise this. He kind of said,'maybe she's not my perfect woman'."
Curtis also dropped the bombshell that his head's been turning for new girl Jourdan, but Tom thinks he'll end up sticking with Amy Hart in the end.
He also thinks Jordan will want to stay with Anna, but she's pretty busy with Ovie…Awkward.
"Not Curtis, I didn't see Curtis swaying. Jordan, it was still early days for him and Anna," he said. Tom also got honest about his "few silly mistakes" in the villa in terms of Irish ring girl Maura Higgins.
"It was lad bander gone wrong, I didn't think she'd go that mad," Tom told the hosts.
"I knew she'd heard, that's when I had to repeat it. There was no going back, there was no lying, I had to say I'd said it. But I thought she might have taken it on the chin as a bit of tongue-in-cheek banter, but she went off."
"Do you think she overreacted for effect?" asked Phil. "Possibly," started Tom, before Holly jumped in to defend Maura.
"No, I don't think so, she was well within her rights – because you did do it in front of all the boys," she pointed out, mentioning Tom's "interesting to see whether she's all mouth or not" comment.
"If I'd have said it to her she might have reacted differently, it was saying it to the boys that got her riled up," confessed Tom.
"Still, you've got to be careful what you say regardless. Anyway. You say maybe she wasn't the perfect person for you, which is why you kept hitting these bumps in the road," added Holly.
Image: ITV2
"Definitely, I don't think I was Maura's perfect guy either – we were the best options for each other at the time," Tom added.
"I got friend-zoned by Lucie straight away, she was really upset about Joe leaving. It wouldn't have felt right to try there," he mentioned. We had no idea he was into Lucie, so that's news.
What do you think about the Michael bombshell, was he tip-toeing around Amber too much to feel happy with her?
In a teaser clip for tonight, Curtis reveals that the scales have tipped, and he currently wants to recouple with new girl Jourdan rather than 'half-girlfriend' Amy.
Michael has also sent fans into an absolute rage by kissing new girl Joanna in front of everyone, while Amber and Amy stay fiercely loyal in Casa Amor.
All the Islanders are clearly shook by the two boys getting their heads turned, and Michael calling Amber 'childish' and Curtis calling Amy 'bitchy.'
After narrator Iain Stirling announces dramatically that it's decision time in the teaser clip, Curtis tells Jourdan; "Right of this second I'd choose you."
A shocked Jourdan asks : "Are you sure?" Michael spends his time grafting Joanna and kissing her on a sofa, saying, "If I went to kiss you right now would you stop me?" SNAKE.
She replies, grinning: "Probably not." But…but Amber?! We can't believe that Michael has essentially handed Tommy and Molly-Mae (#TollyMae) the £50,000 cash prize.
Tune in tonight at 9pm to see what chaos goes down at the recoupling.
Love Island is back on our screens for the next eight weeks, but there are more than a few issues which need to be addressed.
We're talking racism, we're talking homophobia, we're talking ablism, we're talking sexism, we're talking class, we're talking body diversity…the whole can of worms.
Each of these topics deserve to be tackled individually, no doubt. Bear in mind during this article that, as a Caucasian woman, I cannot speak for the experiences of other ethnicities and it's incredibly important to listen to their personal stories rather than another white woman's take on their livelihoods.
In this article, it's time to talk about the racial bias in the infamous reality television show, which sees Islanders couple up in the hopes of winning the £50,000 cash prize. Does everyone have a fair chance, though?
I only just noticed this..
Series 2 – Malin was picked last…
Series 3 – Marcel was picked last…
Series 4 – Samira was picked last….
Series 5 – Yewande was picked last..
qWHITE interesting that #LoveIsland
One tweet in particular did the rounds last night and is currently on 37,000 likes and 5.7 thousand reweets for the point it made about former contestants-of-colour.
From Malin and Marcel in series two and three, to Samira in the fourth season, and now Yewande in the latest episode: People-of-colour are always chosen last for the coupling.
These statistics are troubling when we hear how much racial abuse has been sent to Yewande Biala, the Irish candidate who works in cancer research as a scientist.
“Irish accent doesn’t suit her”…I just read about Yewande. Some people with access to app are THICK AS SH*T. She IS Irish, why oh why I wonder doesn’t her accent “suit her” according to this dummy #LoveIsland
Members of the public are literally questioning her nationality despite the fact she has an Irish accent and refers to herself as Irish, and trolls persistently send abuse her way online.
Former Love Island contestant Samira Mighty has now expressed her fear that Yewande will experience the same micro-aggressions and racism as what she was subjected to last season.
She ultimately failed to find love on the show, with the male contestants evidently not finding her attractive. She left the show after a failed coupling with Frankie Foster, but is now speaking out.
Yewande Biala (left) and Samira Mighty (right)
"I feel like there has been so many comparisons between the two of us," she told Metro.co.uk. "The only thing that is similar – it’s not even the colour of our skin – it’s that she is a shade of brown.
"I was trending on Twitter when the line-up came out because of the comparisons. I’m different from her. I’m a theatrical person and she’s a scientist. I think our personalities are different. You can even see it in the first introduction video."
23-year-old Yewande is of Nigerian descent, and has faced criticism online for her choice of men and even her preference for wearing a wig instead of a weave. The standards aren't the same for Caucasian contestants.
Samira also expressed frustration about the pressure for people-of-colour in the villa to choose each other as a couple, such as Sherif and Yewande:
"If Sherif does pick her, people are going to say “Oh okay, there is a black couple” and then it’s going to be cliche. It’s just weird. Everyone chill out. It’s now 2019, we should be able to do whatever we want."
Another ex-Islander, Marcel Somerville, has bemoaned the racial bias in the show after the contestants coupled up, and Yewande was picked last.
This is mad!!!! #LoveIsland flash backs! Black guy, black girl and mixed race guy all left unpicked. Mad!!!
"Love Island flashbacks," he tweeted. "Black guy, black girl and mixed race guy all left unpicked. Mad!!!" the former Blazin' Squad member wrote,
None of the female contestants stepped forward to indicate their attraction to him back in 2017 while he was in the competition.
This year, newbies Yewande Biala, Sherif Lanre and Michael Griffiths were all sidelined during the first episode, with Scottish contestant Anton Danyluk causing trouble already.
Before the start of this year's series, fans of the show asked ITV to remove Danyluk after an image of him wearing blackface makeup was discovered from six years ago.
Somerville explained the deeply offensive nature of blackface on his Instagram story, explaining that it "invokes a racist and painful history". Blackface only conceals racism, and yet ITV allowed him to stay on the show.
Last year, Samira was the first woman-of-colour to take part in the show's history, and only one man out of sixteen in the villa were interested in her. A gorgeous West End performer, who boys aren't attracted to? What?
In Samira's time in the villa, Megan Barton-Hanson (the blonde and slim contestant) was referred to as “everyone's type on paper”. It seems that Lucie Donlon, the blonde, slim surfer model, is this year's Megan.
Anton and Joe are already vying to win the heart of the 21-year-old, with Anton seeking to ditch Amy (another slim, blonde contestant) who he's been paired up with presumably very soon.
Is it just micro-aggressions, or are narrow-minded Eurocentric ideas of beauty unavoidable in this show?
Sorry Caroline, the show could stand to have some more diversity. It’s hard for slim, white, straight people to relate to this sometimes. I understand that. You can’t begin to understand erasure because you’re constantly represented. The show would be even better with diversity. https://t.co/pXgZZJr3om
From a huge lack of body diversity as well as racial, the reality show is catering for a miniscule amount of the population when it comes to representation.
It's easy to dismiss it as just car-crash tv, but millions of people watch Love Island, and seeing the same type of beauty ideal over and over again is disturbingly damaging.
Jameela Jamil opened up on Twitter about her sadness and anger at the lack of body types represented by the show, whose bosses claim it's because they want the contestants to be "attracted to one another."
How much more careful and polite do I have to be to be able to partake in discourse with white women without getting accused of attacking? I already have to respond to them treading on *eggshells* because of the aggression I am labeled with. pic.twitter.com/msPwFcJitS
Jamil and the show's host, Caroline Flack, disagreed on their stances about diversity, with news websites painting Jamil as angry and irrational.
In reality, she was just trying to express concern for under-represented body types, ethnicities, gender and abilities.
The show is undoubtedly telling us that only slim, toned, blonde, white, big-breasted women are beautiful enough to catch a man, and only tall, white men with bronzed abs are good enough to be deemed attractive for women.
Stereotypes and tropes surrounding people-of-colour are undoubtedly present, such as Jamil's experience of being the 'angry brown woman'.
EXCLUSIVE: As a black woman, Yewande Biala, 23, says she had reservations about joining the ITV show after treatment of Samira Mighty…https://t.co/bauqyOhUIb
— Networkofnews UK (@NetworkofnewsUK) June 1, 2019
However, it's women-of-colour that appear to be experiencing the most difficulties.
Valerie Ross of Scientific Americanwrote about the non-verbal behaviour towards reality tv stars of different races affecting the viewers' prejudice, and her data is overwhelming.
On-screen body language towards people-of-colour can increase unconscious prejudice in viewers, according to Tufts University research.
Esteemed journalist and researcher Cheryl Thompson has also written about the portrayal of black women on reality tv, pointing out three key tropes; the 'Mammy', the 'Jezebel' and the 'Sapphire'.
Three racial stereotypes of black womanhood which came to light at various historical moments in Western media culture.
The 'Mammy' has links with servitude and the trademark subservient, mothering figure. The 'Jezebel', born out of chattel slavery, was seen as a sexually depraved, immoral and lascivious black woman. The 'Sapphire' was born on television; angry, emasculating and loud black women. Recognise the signs?
Serena Williams was cast as the racist “angry black woman” trope in headlines and debates across the world when she spoke out against an umpire for discrimination. pic.twitter.com/yjFtfHPGVG
Lack of representation on television can be seen outside of the reality genre, but the experiences of Love Islanders-of-colour speaks for itself. Everything is trying to tell them that they don't fit the ideal of beauty, just like the lack of ethnicity on runways, ad campaigns and film.
Serena Williams could never get the amount of sponsorships in fashion as her blonde, slim tennis players, who weren't even close to her talent. Naomi Campbell and Tyra Banks revolutionised modelling for black women, but experienced immense difficulties in the process. Black women still rarely get cast in lead roles in film, theatre and television.
What does this tell you about who the public want to see on their screens? Not to mention the lack of care they give towards the mental health of Islanders. The damage which a lack of body diversity and ethnicities does to viewers is undeniable, if you don't see yourself then you assume you aren't enough. You would feel invisible.
One argument I have heard for the lack of diversity is that 'token' candidates such as a plus-sized Islander or woman-of-colour, face a barrage of abuse online as they are clearly the lone representatives.
It's important to take their mental health into account, can they handle this level of online racial or body-orientated abuse? The fact that they have to choose between being represented but abused as a result or not seeing themselves on a screen at all is depressing and unfair.
Yet the less the public see of other races, genders, classes, body types and abilities, the more they will misunderstand them and hold high levels of ignorance. Ignorance leads to consequences.
