All Stars contestant lifts the lid on ‘tedious’ meals in the villa

They're not the first to open up about the villa food

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by Emily Vierke |
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We always assumed that one of the perks of taking part in Love Island would be all the deliciously exotic foods you would be able to devour day in and day out. We were wrong.

Jetting off to the South African villa, or the Spanish one, depending on what series you take part in, sounds all well and good but if you're not eating fresh mangoes for breakfast, delicious salads for lunch and Michelin star pasta for dinner, what's the point?

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It turns out that as much as the Love Island experience is essentially an all-inclusive holiday with a bunch of hotties, the food ain't all that. Even if you're an Islander on the All Stars series, apparently.

Demi Jones, who was booted out of villa alongside Luis Morrison last week, recently chatted to Closer online about her second stint on the romance reality TV show and revealed all the deets from her time in South Africa, including the highs and lows of Love Island eats.

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"What was the food like in the All Stars villa?" we quizzed Demi, wondering if the All Stars babe of babes.

"I'm sorry Love Island production but it wasn't great," Demi replied almost instantly.

"Actually," she corrected, and in the process managed to draw us into a false sense of security, "It felt like a healthy bootcamp detox."

Urgh. We're out.

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relatable queen ©itv

She continued, "It's great having a cut down from McDonalds and having just plain chicken breast and plain rice every day, but having the same thing for lunch and dinner, day and night..."

We've got to be honest with you, Demi, that doesn't sound great at all. If we're having our junk food taken away from us, then at the very least we would expect fresh fruit and veg, or perhaps a classic South African meal – none of this plain rice and chicken malarkey. We hope they at least threw in a spice or a herb to mix it up a little.

"It was very tedious, but one night we did get to have a takeaway," Demi added which is giving us major 'naughty teenagers on a school trip' vibes.

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