After a long wait, the ninth season of Love Island kicked off last night, but not without a few bumps along the way. Just minutes into the show, ITV experienced some technical problems, which continued to cause problems as the show went on. Despite the technical errors the show did go on and we now have five couples.
The first episode of every season tends to follow the same pattern, with the exception of last summer where the public put the couple together, which eventually proved to be more of an unpopular choice. Going back to tradition, producers had the boys enter the villa first and get to know each other a little bit before meeting the girls.
We found out that Ron was blind in one eye, making him the first ever visually-impaired contestant in the villa. Haris and Will have never been in proper relationships and that Shaq is there to find a wife, telling producers in his VT that he 'can’t let my girlfriend stop me finding my wife'.
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Bristol's Maya Jama then made her impressive entrance to speak to the boys before starting the recoupling. Each year the coupling up has those already in the villa step forward for those they find most attractive and this year was no different, but we were given a few meme-worthy moments.
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Olivia and Will provided viewers with the most awkward attempt at greeting each other we’ve seen since Hugo was in the villa. Both going in for a kiss on the cheek before fumbling when deciding whether or not to give a second one on the other side, resulting in a rather awkward hug moment. This moment had viewers cringing and in hysterics at the awkwardness in the room.
Kai found himself to be the most popular of the boys, being picked three separate times by Anna-May, Olivia and Tanyel. Olivia seemed unimpressed by Tanyel’s decision to steal Kai from her, despite having done the same thing to Anna-May just five minutes before and Kai didn’t even step forward for her. She seemed even less impressed by Kai’s explanation of why he stepped forward, claiming it was all about her hair.
Eventually we saw our first set of couples for season nine: Tanya and Shaq, Tanyel and Kai, Lana and Ron, Anna-May and Haris and Olivia and Will. But for how long and who will new bombshell Tom steal?
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