Although that hard-working Love Island camera crew follows those Islanders around for 24 hours a day, six days a week (we’re still fuming we don’t get to see their Saturday routines) there’s still so much more we want to see.
Think about the 23 hours that don’t fit into the measly one-hour episode. Granted, some of that footage is the Islanders getting some much-needed sleep, but still. If anyone wants to start the campaign to turn Love Island into a 24-hour streaming channel à la early Big Brother, we’d be behind that 100 per cent
Naturally, when we get the chance to sit down with the freshly dumped Islanders, one of our first questions is about all the unaired gossip and drama we may have missed. Uma Jammeh and Wil Anderson sat down with Closer after their emotional exit from the show to discuss everything we didn’t see, with Wil even opening up about some unseen tears.
You might be thinking, ‘Wait, when did Wil cry?’ Could it have been when Lucy Graybill revealed everything he’d been up to during his lads' holiday in Casa Amor? Or perhaps when Uma chose to leave the villa with him after he was dumped from the Island? No, it turns out he was distraught over an entirely different Islander.
Wil admitted, “I think I welled up a little bit when Ronnie [Vint] left… I got emotional when Ronnie was leaving because I came in as a bombshell and he really welcomed us and showed us the ropes and then like after I think it was…maybe two weeks I was there, Ronnie left.
"I really didn’t expect them to go at all, I thought it was going to be Konnor [Ewudzi] and Grace [Jackson] because there was just nothing there between them.”
Hopefully Wil and Ronnie can reunite on the outside world and give this friendship a real go. Who knows, maybe they’ll be the longest relationship to come out of this series. Perhaps the iconic Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu was wrong when she said, “This is not Friendship Island, this is Love Island.”
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Sarah O’Byrne has been writing about Love Island for Closer since May 2023, but this is mainly just to kill time until her application for the show gets accepted.