As former Love Island contestant Zara Holland told Channel 4’s Dispatches recently, what we see on the screen is a mediated reality shaped by the producers.
“The producers of Love Island think this slim woman counts as their new token ‘plus-size’ contestant?
Yes, tonight we return to the Love Island villa for another month of thwarted romance, sneaky snogs and bromantic banter by the pool.
The uncomfortable truth is that on Love Island we’re typically laughing at the contestants, not with them.