Ofcom received more than 500 complaints about Tuesday night’s (10.07.18) ‘Love Island’.
The UK communications regulator was inundated with people lodging grievances about the ep after newcomer Idris Virgo told Laura Anderson that her partner Jack Fowler had made advances on Georgia Steel, when video footage showed it was in fact the other way around.
An Ofcom spokesperson confirmed they were assessing 557 complaints about the ep.
Laura confronted Jack about Idris’ claims in last night’s (11.07.18) episode, resulting in the two lads clashing.
Jack blasted: "With Laura I’ve been squashing it, trying to progress with it and then you’ve come in here and you’ve started chatting rubbish, you’ve tried to break up a couple and you’ve got a game plan."
Idris replied: "Who said that?"
But Jack fired back: "That’s how it comes across. It’s not cool."
This isn’t the first ‘Love Island’ episode of the series to have been hit with grievances.
Ofcom received 2,525 complaints following a ‘Love Island’ ep earlier this month in which Dani Dyer was shown a clip of her boyfriend Jack Fincham revealing in second villa Casa Amor that he used to date one of the then-new Islanders, Ellie Jones.
An Ofcom spokeswoman told BANG Showbiz: "We are considering these complaints against our broadcasting rules, before deciding whether or not to investigate."
But former Islander Eyal Booker defended the show, insisting the contestants were already warned that producers would be "testing" them within their relationships.
He said: "In the show’s defence, before we went in to the villa they told us this is a show about testing you within your relationships and within your couple.
"Jack and Dani up until that point had never been tested. Nothing that Dani was shown didn’t happen. It was just a very short clip. And within that villa you overthink everything … they knew she was going to do that."
Ofcom receives 557 Love Island complaints
