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Kirsty McCormack

Ed Balls defends Love Island's Gemma Owen as he slams 'disastrous' Luca

Good Morning Britain host Ed Balls has shared his support for Gemma Owen following Sunday night's explosive episode of Love Island.

The latest instalment of the ITV2 show sae Gemma clash with Luca Bish after the group endured a rather dramatic Movie Night.

Fishmonger Luca was fuming after watching a couple of clips of Gemma and Casa Amor bombshell Billy Brown.

As Luca said Gemma was "full of s**t," she told him he was "overreacting".

Later, as he caught up with Gemma, he asked her at the fire pit: "How would you feel if that was me with a girl there, and I was entertaining it?"

Good Morning Britain host Ed Balls has shared his support for Gemma Owen following Sunday night's explosive episode of Love Island (ITV)

Gemma barked back: "Doing what? Entertaining it by what? Saying that you were just friends so I'm not even gonna hug you, just because we're friends?"

Luca then went on: "But it wasn't just that one beanbag incident," before he claimed he had good reason to believe there was flirting between the pair, to which Gemma told him: "Oh get over yourself."

Gemma told Luca 'get over yourself' during a tense chat in Sunday's episode (ITV)

During Monday's Good Morning Britain, Ed, 55, and his co-host Ranvir Singh invited Richard Arnold into the studio to discuss the latest Love Island antics.

Former politician Ed was keen to have his say and showed his support for 19-year-old Gemma.

"I thought in like the first week or so, Michael Owen's daughter Gemma had a bad start but actually she's done really well. But Luca, it was disastrous, what are you doing?!" he said.

Richard Arnold joined Ed Balls in the GMB studio to discuss the latest Love Island antics (ITV)

"They are on a show called Love Island, they are supposed to flirt with each other."

Mother-of-one Ranvir looked a bit clueless and asked Ed what had happened.

He explained: "Luca and Gemma have been getting on really well, but they were separated in different villas... Gemma, as far as I can see, had a mild conversation with Billy, and Luca last night was like, 'well you know I'm betrayed, no bird treats me like that', it was just awful, it was not good."

Ed defended Gemma and said he think she has done 'really well' on the ITV2 show (ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

He then added: "Truth is, I think the girls are doing really well and the boys are pretty disastrous in this show."

GMB viewers were delighted with how passionate Ed is about Love Island and took to Twitter to comment.

"I love that Ed Balls is well into #loveisland Respect #gmb," one person posted.

Another said: "There is something quite delightful about @edballs being totally invested in #loveisland."

A third viewer added: "Love how excited @edballs is about #LoveIsland #GMB."

Love Island continues tonight at 9pm on ITV2 and ITV Hub.

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