As she waited nervously to enter the Love Island villa in 2018 – red lipstick applied, microphone on, nude swimming costume tied at the front – Megan Barton-Hanson turned to her handlers and made what she thought was a simple request. Could she have a glass of rosé? It didn’t seem fair, after all, that she was expected to “go on TV for the first time and try to strut my stuff like I think I’m Britney Spears” without a single drink. The producers said no.
Barton-Hanson was one of the show’s “bombshells” – a contestant who enters the reality dating competition late to stir up trouble among the loved-up couples. But after her rosé request, the producers dropped a bombshell on her. “They said, ‘Just to warn you, when you get in there, you can only have two drinks.’”
