A huge part of Love Island is the iconic "I've got a text" line.
Whenever there's news for the villa it is normally delivered to the special phones the islanders each have. They all have their real phones whisked away, preventing them from communicating with the outside world, as soon as they arrive.
The islanders are then given devices which are set up so that they cannot contact anyone in the outside world or browse the internet. They are mainly used for producers to contact islanders but the contestants can also text each other and use them to take selfies and videos.
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Former contestants Anna Vakili and Amber Gill, who both starred on the ITV2 dating show in 2019, have opened up about what goes on behind the scenes on Love Island, including what happens to the villa phones. They revealed that many don't get to see their pictures after the show is finished as they don't get to keep their smartphones.
Anna and Amber took part in a Q&A session for Closer magazine. When asked about the selfies on the phones, Anna said: "We didn't get to keep any of the photos that we took."
But Amber, who was a winner, actually got to keep her phone. She said: "I actually got a lot of the photos that we took. Because I got my Samsung phone after I finished. It was part of my, like I got loads of gifts as like a 'winner pack', and I got one of the phones. It had the pictures we took."
Fellow former Islander Zara McDermott has also revealed more about the phones, as her boyfriend Sam Thompson recently asked her about the texts that contestants receive from producers. Sam, 29, asked: "Are you told you have to say, 'I've got a text!' because everybody says it, or is it just the done thing?"
Zara replied, as she said: "Just the done thing." She added that the islanders are somewhat aware of when a text will be coming. She said that the producers suggest to them: "Maybe you should all have your phones near you".
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