Many Love Island viewers have been speaking online, highlighting their distaste with how the show's producers, Islanders themselves and fans have dealt with issues like diversity, race, body shape and age since the beginning of this series.
Vlogger and GLAMOUR cover star Patricia Bright took to Twitter last night saying "This whole your my 'type' based on eye colour and hair colour...is the dumbish thing, what about brain cells and banter? I'm so over these description of relationship material. Thats why after 3 days your done! #loveisland"
Another Twitter user voiced her concerns, saying "can we make it a new rule that anyone who says their type is 'mixed race' gets immediately dumped from the island #LoveIsland"
A Tweet from Ivy Clarke who wants more diversity was liked by over ten thousand people:
Sorry not sorry, but Love Island need to bring in girls of colour/ethic. All this bringing in theses Essex/Welsh white girls is becoming JOKE. The show needs some diversity. Samira is the only girl of colour. includeswe need body diversity to more thicker girls too.#LoveIsland
— Ivy Clarke (@IvyBlueClarke) June 17, 2018
She went on to say "We live in a real world were some women and men aren’t all white or straight or have a built or skinny body. This show has no diversity or sense of reality to it, I understand that it’s tv a show and this is what they deem to be perfect but that’s not real life."
We live in a real world were some women and men aren’t all white or straight or have a built or skinny body. This show has no diversity or sense of reality to it, i understand that it’s tv a show and this is what they deem to be perfect but that’s not real life. #LoveIsIand
— Ivy Clarke (@IvyBlueClarke) June 17, 2018
Others have highlighted "ageist issues"...
"MARCEL WAS 31 LAST YEAR AND NO-ONE CALLED HIM A GRANDAD! very ageist towards Laura ngl, she's not even that old and is more beautiful than many girls #loveisland" wrote one user. Another wrote "The ‘banter’ surrounding Laura’s age is the grim reality that women get more invisible as they age. She’s only 29, if it was a man it wouldn’t be happening. I said what I said. #LoveIsland"
This iRadio follower added to the conversation online, drawing attention to the apparant lack of diversity in the men on the show:
All I see is a woman giving off there's not enough diverse women. No complaints about all the attractive, muscular manly men.
Where's the hairy chests and armpits? Where's the moobs and dad-bods? Where's the pale white skin and the yellow teeth?
I've made my point.— Steven Graydon (@saintgraydon) June 19, 2018
