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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Entertainment
Lucy Buckland

Love Island fans in disbelief about how cast was picked - but it isn't the first time

Love Island fans have been left reeling about how this year's starting line up were plucked for the show.

With more than 100,000 toned singletons flooding producers with applications to step into the villa in towering wedges or designer flip flops producers will have been spoilt for choice for those looking for love.

But despite the choice only three original Islanders were plucked from those actively applying - the rest were handpicked by producers.

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