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Sophie Buchan

ITV2 Love Island: Ofcom inundated with reality dating show complaints over 'misogynistic behaviour'

Every single day, millions of us sit down to watch our favourite TV shows from Love Island to Gogglebox.

Whilst this provides entertainment of many of us, at times something can happen during a show which result in people complaining to Ofcom.

And it seems people are keen to know what people are talking about and why people are complaining.

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The Office of Communications, commonly known as Ofcom, have taken to TikTok to update the public on what complaints they had received in the week between 12-18 July. During this seven day period, they received over 50 complaints.

Addressing the complaints in the video they said: "Lots of people have been in touch with us this week so strap in for the latest update of shows that have generated more than 50 Ofcom complaints. We had 2481 complaints about the episode of Love Island broadcast on 17th of July.

"Most of these were people worried about misogynistic behaviour from the male contestants. We then had a further 427 complaints about the episode of [Love Island] Aftersun that followed.

"We then had 413 complaints about the episode of Love Island broadcast on 18th of July. These were people concerned about bullying in the villa

"We also received 167 complaints about the episode of Love Island broadcast on the 15th of July. The majority of these were about the sharing of footage of Ekin-Su and George in Casa Amor."

Rounding up the final few with yet more Love Island complaints they added: "We had 129 complaints about the episode of Love Island broadcast on the 12th of July - most of these were about Adam’s entry into the villa

"And we had a further 65 complaints about Neil Oliver Live from the 16th of July. These were people alleging that misinformation about the covid vaccines was broadcast.

"As always we will carefully assess each and every one of these complaints against our broadcasting code and publish information with updates on our decisions on our website."

Their TikTok update, which they upload on a regular basis, comes as the popular ITV dating show has come under fire gathering 3,617 complaints - the majority surrounding the alleged misogynistic behaviour and bullying faced by some of the islanders, as touched on in their video.

According to Edinburgh Live, this followed the latest Movie Night episode where the contestants watched footage of their couples being unfaithful or rude in the different villa. The BBC reported that domestic abuse charity Woman's Aid confirmed they had spoken to ITV about the "misogynistic behaviour" on the show. ITV have also put out a statement saying that they did not "condone trolling".

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