Love Island 2018 episode 5 recoupling: New contestants revealed, Kendall exits and the girls talk Brexit
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Love Island continued tonight, with the fourth series' first recoupling ceremony taking place.
Adam pre-warned Kendall he planned to ditch her, before swiftly bounding off to kiss new partner Rosie by the fire pit. Kendall became the first person to leave the show this year, though three new contestants were teased who will be introduced as a surprise on Sunday night.
Thursday's edition saw the relentlessly spurned Dr. Alex finally get his first date of the series with newcomer Rosie, while Niall and Georgia sat a few feet away from them, getting straight to the meat of any stirring intellectual conversation: how does she feel about chicken dippers?
Clearly, the answer pleased Niall enough, as he launched straight into a kiss, which caused ripples of shock across the villa (that's all it takes).
Cut to Hayley angrily asserting that you "can't trust anyone" and referring to the whole business as a "game", despite having already scolded Eyal for using exactly the same terminology.
A game of 'Truth or Dare' then resulted in the bombshell that Jack would re-couple with Hayley if he had the chance, which ended up with Dani in floods of tears trying to rekindle her relationship with Jack. "It’s not that I don’t like you," she wept. “It’s just I worry because you’re what I know.” Jack was quick to reply: "Sometimes stick to what you know."
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On a more serious note, here's Rachel Hosie delving into Love Island's issues with body diversity.
"And what message does this send to viewers, particularly the young and impressionable? The idea that you need to be thin to be considered attractive and worthy of love is incredibly damaging – it can lead to low self-esteem, body dysmorphia and even eating disorders."
We are allowed but one night off from Love Island a week, and that falls tomorrow (Saturday).
The hour is upon us! Will one of Adam's abs finally break away and be fashioned into a new contestant, Garden of Eden-style? We're about to find out!
The first 'Where's your head at?' of the night there, for those playing the Love Island drinking game
Hayley muses that she thinks the show has made her wiser, which I'm pleased about as it's destroyed about 8,000 of my brain cells already
Viewer poll I would like to see: On whose face could you most successfully and efficiently juice a lemon?
Kendall has been unceremoniously pre-dumped by Adam (the ceremonious way being shafted for someone else around a fire pit at the 'recoupling ceremony', obviously)
He immediately tashes on (did I use it right?) with Rosie to the horror of the other contestants, which is prime Love Island content, hopefully viewers realise this and don't vote him out
An advert for 'scariest movie in years' Hereditary! Though surely there can be no horror greater than being recoupled with Dr. Alex, who probably wishes he was back in the day job disinfecting wounds instead of being constantly turned down by women on ITV2
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