A former Love Island has claimed that Islanders rehearse their speeches with producers before filming the recoupling.
The ceremony is said to go on for hours, often filming in the dead of night.
Opening up about her own experience on the ITV2 show back in 2020, during the winter series, Shaughna Phillips spoke about the long process.
Quizzed on how long it takes to shoot, the 26-year-old said: "Hours. Hours. You don’t normally have to re-do… if it’s something very dramatic, then obviously they can’t really redo that.
"But when you’re doing, like, the ‘I would like to couple up with this person because…’ you do that in three sections. So you say that, and then you have a big pause, then you say the next bit, pause."
She added on the Should I Delete That podcast: "You kind of go over it with a producer before, that night.
"So like during dinner time you kind of talk through it. It’s really produced. They kind of ask you to go for chats and certain things. It’s a TV show, so I get it."
The moment she was dumped by Callum Jones for Molly Smith after Casa Amor was one of the most memorable points of the series, prompting her to utter the now-immortal words: "Congrats, hun."
Shaughna went on to say that she believes the heart rate monitor results were fixed to portray a fit with the storyline.
She said: "I think it was set up. In the competition it said mine went up for Callum, and obviously it would’ve been a greater storyline that mine went for Callum and Callum’s didn’t go [up] for me, but I don’t think mine went for him. I’m sure mine went for someone else.
"Even though I know, or I think it wasn’t true, the nation’s then watching me looking like a t**t. I just felt like a donut."
*Love Island airs tonight at 9pm on ITV2
