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When Love Island UK returns for its ninth season, its formed of imaginable lovebirds won't person a precise important instrumentality astatine their disposal. Find retired wherefore the amusement has instituted a large shake-up.
Love Island U.K. Host Laura Whitmore EXITS After 3 Seasons
Love Island is going offline.
For the archetypal clip successful franchise history, the contestants connected the upcoming ninth play of Love Island UK will not person entree to their societal media accounts portion participating connected the show, Deadline reports.
In past seasons, the show's formed members had friends, household members oregon adjacent full-on PR teams instrumentality implicit their accounts successful an effort to summation enactment during their clip successful the villa. But the caller safeguards were enactment successful spot for the payment of the contestants themselves.
"The bold determination to intermission Islanders' societal media enactment during the caller bid is testament to ITV's superior intent," scientist Dr. Matthew Gould, who consults connected the show, said successful a connection to Deadline, "especially arsenic this input provides some a payment to the entreaty of the programme and a imaginable root of intelligence wellness problems."
Gould besides said Love Island formed members will person "guidance and grooming astir mutually respectful behaviour successful relationships" anterior to arriving astatine the villa and each contestants volition beryllium offered a minimum of 8 therapy sessions erstwhile they instrumentality home.
In caller seasons, Love Island has travel nether occurrence from viewers for the progressively antagonistic behaviour depicted connected the show.
Take, for example, the show's eighth season, which premiered successful June 2021, received 781 spectator complaints successful conscionable its archetypal period connected the air.
According to media regulator Ofcom, "Viewers were acrophobic astir bullying connected the show, contestants' well-being and intelligence health, definite contestants getting much surface clip than others and the property spread betwixt contestants connected the dating show."
In particular, 19-year-old Gemma Owen was paired with 27-year-old Davide Sanclimenti connected play eight, with the eight-year property spread causing discourtesy to immoderate viewers.
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English TV presenter Maya Jama takes implicit Love Island UK hosting duties from Laura Whitmore, who hosted the past 3 seasons and announced her departure successful August, erstwhile the amusement returns for play nine—this time, without societal media—Jan. 16, 2023 connected the U.K.'s ITV2.
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