Love Island’s “misogyny” row continues, after 3,617 complaints were made to Ofcom in one week.
It comes as the show’s 2019 winner Amber Gill got into a spat with contestant Luca Bish ’s sister, who is receiving death threats about her brother’s behaviour.
During the show’s Movie Night, where Islanders are shown clips of their partners they hadn’t previously seen, viewers saw Luca kick off over footage of Gemma Owen he claimed showed her “flirting” with contestant Billy Brown, who got the boot last night.
He says at the time she denied there was flirting, and now he “looked like a mug” for asking about it, and said he was “fuming”.
But some viewers claimed his reaction was “misogynistic”, while others complained about the behaviour of Davide Sanclimenti toward Ekin-Su Cülcüloglu, with 2,481 complaints lodged about Sunday’s episode.
A further 417 complaints were made about Monday night’s episode, amid accusations Luca and fellow Islander Dami Hope were “bullying” Tasha Ghouri. They have both since apologised to the tearful model.
Women’s Aid has contacted ITV about what the domestic abuse charity considers “misogyny and controlling behaviour” on display. Luca’s sister Claudia became embroiled in an online spat with former winner Amber, who called Luca and Dami “public enemy no. 1”. But the behaviour sparked appalling threats from trolls directed at the contestants and their families.
Claudia, who teamed up with other families to beg trolls to stop sending threats, has paused running Luca’s social media accounts. ITV raised their concerns about the “highly damaging labels” being put on the young Islanders, and said the welfare of contestants and loved ones was its “greatest concern”.
Complaints have also been lodged about sister show Love Island : Aftersun.
Ofcom is assessing complaints and has not yet made a decision on whether to investigate.
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