‘Love Island’ doesn’t air on a Saturday so contestants get a "day off" to go to the beach.
Kem Cetinay – who won the show alongside ex-girlfriend Amber Davies in 2017 – revealed the reason the ITV reality series has a 24-hour break is so contestants can take time off to leave the villa and "chill out" without their microphones on, and it gives bosses time to have the building cleaned.
Speaking on ‘This Morning’, Kem said: "People are going mad on Twitter as to why it’s not on Saturdays, but I know why.
"They get one day off a week. What happens is it gives them a day to clean the villa and you take your mics off and normally we go to the beach and we just chill out."
While the contestants get time off from the island challenges, they’re watched by producers like "an evil hawk" because they don’t want Islanders talking about their love lives without such chats being recorded.
He said: "Not a lot of people know this. What happens is when you take your mics off, you’re not allowed to talk about anything to do with the show.
"You’ve got to talk about home life. You’re being watched by an evil hawk, by the producers because they don’t want you to talk about what’s going on.
"You can all sit and chat but they are quite careful about what you talk about because they want to keep it so everyone at home can see and get it on video.
"It’s more a day off from all the intense games, all the intense dates, deciding who you like and don’t like."
Love Island doesn’t air on Saturdays to give contestants ‘day off’
