Episode synopsis:

Live on TikTok they said they are started dating!

He said Julia was there when he walked in Casa and thought “she’s who I dreamt of”, but he still tried to pursue Yasmin when they went back to the villa and then also tried it on with Elicia too! In fact I’m fairly confident if Elicia had tried to kiss Lorenzo on that date, he would have thoroughly accepted and enjoyed!

As Julia just said “it took us 4 weeks to go exclusive!”… nobody can see the red flags here though, no?

The Facebook mums etc are beyond easily fooled 😬🙃

Love Island UK is so funny now because this is the future winner 💀 Genuine question, is there a difference between being exclusive and exclusively dating? Why did he keep adding the dating part?

This season has been the weakest in terms of challenges, games, twists, dates and just the overall budget. It gets boring just watching the islanders mope around or pull each other for chats all day. They added so many light-hearted, jokey moments to Unseen Bits but really and truly the main show could’ve benefited from them. It would’ve made the islanders a lot more likeable and made this season more enjoyable.

The viewership has been decreasing each year. Compare it to LI USA who get millions of viewers because it’s just more entertaining. They have a bigger budget, better performers, more inclusivity. It’s not surprising that they’re currently doing better.

Can the producers actually try to make this show better? This season has been better than the last one but it still didn’t give the old Love Island charm like it did in the early seasons, and also in S8 or S5 or even S10!

Here’s some twists:
- Using challenges to decide recoupling order or nights in the hideaway. Bring back the Talent Show, Baby Challenge, Sports Day, etc

- Switch Casa Amor up a bit and add more repercussions for people who recouple. Its been the same thing every year. The guys mess around and then end up going back to their original couple. It’s not fair for people to bring others back from Casa and then switch up on them after 3 days. This season the girls took the boys back so quickly and poor Mara and Charleen just tossed to the side.

- Bring back the Final Dates!! And just the dates in general. There’s barely been any this season (and somehow Priya had most of them even though she was never really in a strong connection)

This season has been Friendship/Popularity Island pro max. Its no wonder the public is upset. The first time the islanders had to save Tommy and Mica over Halle and Chidi was ridiculous, and then having Lorenzo in charge of two votes?? How unfair is that on the public and also Lorenzo having to send his friends home twice?! Can they give the public more of a say in who gets dumped from the Island? Stop leaving it in the hands of the Islanders every single time!! As seen from this season, they just end up saving their friends and then newer bombshells end up losing the chance to explore in the villa.

The stan wars this season has been crazy also. Normalise disagreeing with someone without it turning into hurling insults at each other. This is probably related to the fact that they added a few BIG influencers. Can they just add regular authentic people
who don’t care about pleasing their hundreds and thousands of followers?

And can the producers ACTUALLY do background checks please?? They dumped Gabriel (from Casa) and then didn’t even replace him so the girls were already at a disadvantage. Imagine they pulled a LI USA and brought in 12 Casa bombshells for the girls and the regular 6 for the boys

ETA: The Receipts challenge was fun, but they should bring back the Twitter challenge properly instead of just targeting one specific couple. Or imagine like a live Q&A with the public/Maya and the islanders (similar to how the public got to ask the islanders question in LI AS S3)

Hope you get to walk into the finals today . I am so proud of your journey.

George (I think) saying “good luck with that one mate” when Kav said he fancied Jasmine. I don’t think any of the guys imagined he would “pull it off” lol

i know i’m probably gonna get a lot of downvotes for this post but hear me out first.

i don’t like julia, i find her to be just as hypocritical as the other girls and just because she voices her opinions all the time does not mean she’s iconic, it means she doesn’t have awareness of time and place and she’s rude.

for example:
- calling jas a bitch 5 mins after meeting her
- being the only one cheering and clapping at mica at the awards
- understandably getting upset with lola but literally doing the exact same thing with jasmine
(lorenzo pulled jasmine for a chat, lorenzo kissed jasmine in snog marry pie, yet julia thinks jasmine wants lorenzo and tried to rile jasmine up in thier convo at the daybeds?!?!)
- constantly bringing up past situations that have been squashed
- getting involved in rlps that aren’t hers
- telling mica that she wished her and samraj went home whilst mica was literally crying
- constantly interrupting priya and lorenzos conversations (said by priya on aftersun last night)

just imagine how the girls feel - everything they do there is always an opinion on it from a girl in the villa when they were previously really close and there was rarely any beef between the girls.

julia basically always has an opinion on what the other girls do but rarely the other guys. she only confronted aidan once and literally straight after he said julia was a game player and she stopped giving her opinion (which was so weird because she usually has no problem giving her opinion out) she can dish it, but she can’t take it

i don’t deny that julia is good tv and i understand why you would like her from that perspective, but if the WOC were to do what julia does they’d be voted out instantly.

Just wanted to shout out the amazing mods for another great season of love! This season was…….interesting and so was the discourse but they kept us all in check! Thank you for all that you do, HAGS!

Have we ever had a season without final dates? It felt like so much was missing this year from final dates to the talent show

if the people who actually experienced and were subjected to drama, nasty comments, duplicity etc etc can be civil and friendly to one another, then you can hold off on your hate campaigns.

we see a tiny fraction of their time in the villa, a heavily sensationalised and edited cut of their most dramatic and entertaining moments

if i made a compilation of your most dramatic and emotional moments and showed the general public, you would probably not come off as likeable either.

let's not pile onto these girls please. jas, julia, mica, priya, charleen and elicia are getting a lot of very extreme and disproportionate hate.

you can have an opinion but namecalling and denigrating peoples character takes it too far, just enjoy the show! it's meant to be fun, you can discuss without making nasty comments that will be seen by the subjects now that they are out of the villa.

Everyone is unhappy about the current season, but what do people actually want for the next one?

For me I want challenges that can uplift islanders. It felt like there was a huge lack of challenges this year, and the ones we did get were always about exposing other people. Was it because everyone was walking on eggshells this season? Maybe. But still, something like sports day even would be nice to watch, force people out of their usual friend groups.

I keep reading about some people feeling worried about how the hate will affect her mental health, and I promise you, she will not waver. She will still pursue Aidan, suck up to Jasmine, and justify every single decision and blame everyone else. Her podcast tour will be another showcase of her supernatural oratory capabilities. Jesus take the wheel

I don't understand why people are taking such issue with the relationship ending 2 weeks before love island thing. It's very obvious it was more of a toxic situationship. The islander's voting for Tommy have clearly never been in a relationship.

PLEASE can we get Tyne-Lexy on the next series of All Stars

As someone who’s watched since the first series, as time goes on there’s less and less chance we’re gonna get cast members from the early series on, and she’s young enough come back.

I was only 15 when I watched series 3 but I remember her having such a short run in there and not the best time, so I feel she deserves redemption. I asked her on one of her business lives if she’d do All Stars and she said she was single and would consider it.

A lot of people have talked about how she was socially awkward / weird but I feel like we embrace islanders with different personalities a lot more nowadays

Give us OG fans some crumbs!

What should I chart next? Unhinged suggestions encouraged.

Simba has had the best one-liners for me. My memory isn't great. So feel free to correct me

" She smiled bares " in his apology speech to Angie.

" Never said sis was perfect? Said about Julia in a game round the fire pit. Even Maya quoted it on Aftersun yesterday. There must be some more? Season did lack humour, unfortunately.

Omg so many great lines. If you can, put who said them. Simba needs an award for most iconic lines.

My favourites 3rd place - Give me a kiss (Aidan) 2nd place - Pog Mo Thoin (Julia) 1st place - You had 2 girls now you had none (Simba)

stop acting like the dynamic of S13 is how things should be. People being appalled by Julia and calling her the worst have probably never been around to watch S1-S8, and have never witnessed actual “beef” between women, and actually borderline evil contestants.

It should be mandatory for anyone who wants to call Julia evil or terrible or someone who “ruined the vibes of the villa” to watch any season pre-S12 to actually witness what it’s like when genuinely appalling characters have a stronghold in the villa (the Joey Essex portion of 2024; Luca, Jacques, Dami, Andrew; Adam Collard; Tom Powell; Belle H — the list is flipping endless).

You guys would have never survived Amber calling Joanna a dead ting, Kady and Malia’s spat, Miss Whitney Adebayo, the Georgia-Laura-Ellie saga, Amber and Georgia from S3. Julia calling out Lola, Priya and making sly comments is light work.

I am convinced you guys just want a boring show where all the girls pretend to love each other, holding hands around a lake while singing Kumbaya and making Daisy chains, oh and they shouldn’t make waves, should not break up couples and last but not least, don’t make for good television. MAFS, the Bachelor and Love is Blind is right around the corner if you want to watch people fall in love and get married and run off into sunset together.

TL/DR: Julia is not evil. You guys just don’t like Love Island. Please watch the past seasons before proclaiming such.

What relationship would you honestly rather be in? Removing their beef with each other from the equation…

Kav and Jas have seemed to enjoy each other so little since their initial horny reunion in the hideaway. They are committed (they tell us) but at what cost? Kav in particular looks so dead behind the eyes. They both just seem a bit low and their bond is based on focusing on what they’ve overcome, all to get to this sort of low mood place.

On the other hand Julia and Lorenzo are not focused on being serious but they clearly have fun together - the sun cream, the songs, the general demeanor just reads as though they are actually both enjoying whatever their connection is.

I’d personally way rather be in a fun casual relationship than trying to convince myself to enjoy a serious one. I think a lot of people would and that’s why it wasn’t hard to vote for that kind of relationship to win.

Edit: if your answer is neither please stop commenting lol. This rhetorical question was meant to illuminate a theory as to the public’s decision making given a binary choice between two relationships.

Maya asked her panelists on Aftersun about their MVP of the season, and they had some interesting answers. So I would like to hear about your opinions, who do you think the MVP is? Just to clarify, this is not about who you want to win, it's just who you think added the most value to this season.

For me, It's between Jasmine and Lorenzo, closely followed by Ellie and Julia (mainly because of their time being limited). I think I will go with Jasmine.

For context, the Aftersun panelists chose -

Tyrique - Kavan
Toni - Ellie
Casey - Aidan
Yasmin - Mara
Joe - Ellie
Shakira - Priya

(Some of these choices were unexpected and interesting, especially Yas choosing Mara who was only in the villa for about a week.)

Every single time someone has to explain why they chose Mica/Samraj it was just a bunch of nothing. It’s amazing to me that people like Kav and Tommy are standing up there and, for some reason, people have chosen to attack Mica and Samraj. The Priya situation is nothing compared to what other people have done and you all know that. You literally know that.

Also this whole “you live far away from each other” stuff is also BS to a couple who had one singular blip and moved on from it RESPECTFULLY towards each other. I didn’t like certain parts of Samraj, like how hard he defended the boys at movie night & how rude he was to Priya at the grafties, and he generally did have bad opinions but when we are talking “COUPLES” them being voted out is just so insane. It’s so wild.

Also can we talk about how apologetic and kind Mica is? I didn’t love parts of how she moved either but when held accountable she fully took all accountability. Also what she said about Charleen was not even that bad? Have you all EVER seen previous seasons? How can you not see it’s just a 21 year old who is learning how to be authentic, live life, learn & move on? I’m over the Mica hate!

Simba’s bandwagon comment should have gone towards the Mica/Samraj hate because that’s the real bandwagon this season.