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This week, Adam and Meg discuss the tropical storm devastating the villa that is Ekin-Su. Go on, girl! get your man to crawl for you. Will the coupling between Ekin and Jay last? Only one way to find out.
Hey...can we pull you aside for a quick chat? This is the exciting spinoff series of Livin' La Viva Voce! Meg and Adam are two proper fit PhD students (one in English lit, the other in comp sci) who love getting drunk and chatting about...anything! This podcast is dedicated to all things Love Island UK, Series 7. And listeners? We're just your type.
Hello and you are listening to Love Island. Loviva Voce with your two hosts Meg. Adam or like to go law Whitmore and Ian Sterling. Just I hate myself. All right. Hey myself, I hate the show, I everything you, this is, this is we're recording on a Thursday evening, post stinky pasta.
Well, I mean, I thought the pastor was delicious, but I had a four cloves of garlic, plus tons of garlic, granules and garlic powder, hence stinky. It's fortunate microphones, don't pick up smell then. Yeah, it is. Mmm, by the way. Let me just interject real quick If you ever want to.
If you ever think you have garlic breath, and you don't want other people to think you have garlic breath, the trick is to make them eat garlic too. Because if everyone eats garlic, then no one can detect it. And there's a little bit of life. That's a life hack for you in this trivial pointless series.
Wow, that is one of the most off topic irrelevant parts to a show that so irrelevant. I don't think so at all, because if you ever want to graft, if you want to chat someone up, if you want a couple up with your with your what do they say with your ting, with your paying?
I feel like I'm getting racist, I don't know. I feel like going into territory little but we can't venture out of it. Feel one day, you know, when you're, when you're running for Prime Minister of Canada, they're going to do this up and go guys. Did you know that Meg recorded this podcast?
I know. We're also Also Adam and I are speaking very like sensuously, right now because we realised that with these mics, they're actually so sensitive. These are lapel mics. They're so sensitive that. Oh god. Don't do that. We have to watch our ploses. We have to watch our continents.
Otherwise, they're a little too powerful for this delicate machine. Anyways, we haven't talked about Long Island yet, let's talk about what's happened. Okay. Because you've been paddling on about, can I go? Oh my god, you got more shit. No, because first, it's garlic. Then it's lapel mics. Now, I'm gonna talk about something adjacent to Love Island this week, and then, we're gonna dive it, brace yourself listeners.
Okay. Oh, I've fallen asleep already. We just, I was telling you. I was telling Adam about this that all of the, you know, like preview images preview videos, the kind of little little videos of the Islanders waving. The flags that kind of interspersed the ad breaks and everything Can you chill?
Can you chill? Anyways with Tasha I always was like why doesn't Tasha look like Tasha like? Why does she just look like some random blonde girl? Why doesn't she look like anything that she looks like in the series itself? And I realised listener, it's because they have actually taken the time to completely blur out.
I think all the qualities that make her so beautiful. So they've blocked out all of her freckles. They've blocked out her like laugh lines and her crows feet. They've really plumped up her lips and stuff like that. Of course, they don't show her hearing aid. And so, like a lot of these traits that make Tasha look.
I think really, really, really beautiful human cute human. Yeah, it makes her seem just terrifying. Anyways, I'm done. Now, You just thought, I just thought about that and hopefully you can agree with me. No, I mean, I'm not gonna lie. If you've been following me on Twitter, which you should you get all of the live lover Island updates from me on Twitter, you would know that I forgot about Tasha on three separate occasions.
A lot of people did they call her the island furniture, don't they, It's really rude. Exactly it. I don't forget about that much, but yeah, it is quite rude. Anyways, still, I I guess we should start talking about. What, what happened? What did happen? Did anything happen, okay? One huge thing, just my saw my favourite moment.
We saw the collapse of one. Couple, the collapse of the love triangle. Oh it's a love. Tringle it. Got it. Got messy, but it was beautiful. It made me fall in love with. I was going to say all three participants, that's a lie But there's one participant. I do not care for.
Okay. So, as you may have, as you may know, right? In the first week, there was a dovey day, right? The Italian stallion who arrived and then broke Gemma, and Liam out of their couple, right? A couple up with Gemma. Yes. Okay. So then he was chatting with Gemma, didn't really sense anything that's fine.
Well, except Tyright each except her age. And then in walks, I can sue Turkish soap opera actress. I can sue. Well, just a way to describe it. Turkish soap program. Can I just say she lives up to her career? I, I want to watch. She's been in now because I'm like, down.
I want to see how direct I want to see her direct. I want to see this lady bloom. I see the inner working of her mine. I want them to do being John Malkovich I can see. Yeah So Underline I thought this girl was a clown when they first put her in but I have fallen enough.
She walked in and she was like, this is not, I'm not here to make seasonal friends, next seasonal, friends, you know. I'm here to graft. I'm here to cause drama. I'm here to cause a lot of beef, She delivered. Should she said She deliver happens. Everything that was on the tin you took place.
She was, she was just incredible. I mean this woman is a force of nature. I might even go as far as to describe her, as the patron saint of drama. She is just I mean surely the word magnificent is is the only word appropriate to describe echinson. Basically what happened is she breaks Jem and David up right?
Her and Davide work out a lot. They kind of develop a thing and you know what he doesn't do. Yeah, he doesn't bring her coffee. Yep. There's this one morning where everyone gets coffee, and I really want to know. I really want to act like this for a second is this is a really interesting part is that they have an arguement about this later, which I don't think is a spoiler.
But no but She's like why don't you bring me coffee? And he's like because I don't I don't know if I'm serious about. Yeah, I don't want to make that kind of commitment. Like what? What do you mean? Yeah. That kind of commitment. You're bringing someone coffee. Yeah. You know, you're not like marrying them.
I didn't I'd bring you coffee. If I was just different, I would bring you coffee. If you were a stranger, if you are all living in the same area for like a month, why not? If someone's like, oh, could you grab me a coffee? I just spending one, especially if all the ingredients are there.
Exactly. Right. If you're making a coffee, make them a coffee, even your coffee. Yeah. I know. Anyway, just so voice it to say she's gone. She's on the hump basically, she's annoyed, she's angry. She's thinking, why is this boy? Not bringing me coffee? Yeah, you know, does he, is he playing me?
Is he playing a game? Which I mean, anything can make you coffee, should be him playing the game. Yeah, exactly. Right. Anyway, so no coffee is materialised and I can sue is concerned concern, yeah. Okay. I want to talk to you about because obviously we can both agree. The coffee thing, very melodramatic very kind of over the top reality TV.
They both look really bad if you. Yeah, because she's making a big deal out culture, and it was like, okay. And then, nobody is making a big deal about not making not making coffee, which is also like pro like whatever. What are you a five-year-old? Yeah, no. Anyways, I want to talk to you about this issue which I think is a little bit more, contentious can be discussed a little bit more.
Is basically what happens is, I can sue kind of extrapolates from the coffee situation that like Dobby day is not opening up to her is not making any attempt to romance or is not making any attempt to get to know her to share about himself. And dovidae basically says, I'm really closed off at the beginning of my like romantic explorations.
Everyone's like what? And I only open myself up topics into coffee and I only close myself. I I only open myself up, if, you know, sometime has passed and I really get to know that person. Sure. Okay, and I can see obviously is like no I want affection right now, right?
We're playing the game, we're playing the game called Love Island. You better show me of action now, or if we don't break up we're gonna get voted off the island. I find it very rich. The thing is is like you got these islands that come on and they go, oh I'm a very defensive personal.
I'm like I'm a very like you have to like break me out my sham. Like You want a reality TV show how closed off can you be? Yeah, you've chosen to put your love life centre stage in front of a house which is just full of camera. Yeah, How can you sit there and be like, oh I take a long time to walk to somebody.
You don't belong. Here you go on the wrong flight. You're on, you're on the wrong show. Yeah, you need to be on Dr. Phil or something you need to be you be somewhere where they're going to be opening up your emotions like geez. Louise, you do you are on the wrong island.
Yeah, I don't know. It confuses me too because I frankly think not gonna lie, but I'm dating someone, right? I'm kind of in like the first couple weeks of getting to know. Someone I want them to be as excited as possible. Yeah. Shouldn't shouldn't there be like, shouldn't that be like a honeymoon phase of dating?
Shouldn't you want to get to know someone also, like how vulnerable do you need to be like, you know, about to tell them that like unless he's in the mob. Yeah, as page. So humorously observed, I mean, you're not about to tell him that like, you know, you're once in a library and you're really scared and that library about going to the bathroom because the bathroom looked really dirty.
So he said about the bathroom went to a corner and you found a bag and you put in the bag. I don't do that either But like listener. Listener. It's been 10 minutes later. We just had to cut out this long and serious conversation in which we had to reevaluate our conversation and and pray.
Pray through it. No, but it all seriousness. I mean, like, you don't need to open up that much and you can actually be open without like opening all all of yourself like to a person Like people people love Islands. Seem to make it seem like a binary decision. I know like a, yes, no like, oh, either I tell you everything about myself and my deepest darkest.
Yeah. Or I completely defend myself, exactly, like get a little bit more into it. You can have degrees. I want I want one of the islanders to be like, this is my social insurance number. This is my mother's maiden name, this is my deepest darkest fear. Here's my bank accounts and sort codes.
This is the time I like, ran someone off the road. It Love Island turns into what I know what you did last summer. Yeah, I would, I would I'd kill for that Love Island but it's a mashup with the horror film. Who I know what you did last summer, beautiful, all of the islanders, have a deep dark, secret, love island.
But it's a, it's a mashup with Friday, the 13th and they're having a great time, one night of the party having a DJ or something, and then Jason comes out with a chainsaw, gets it done Love Island but it's actually that black mirror episode where they make the prisoner, forget what's happened to them and then put them through the simulation again, and again and again.
Oh god, we're just talking about that right now. Notice how listener we say mashup? Because For the past couple of weeks, we have watched two seasons of Glee. We are now finished, the original cast, like the original storyline. Anyways, that's not. That's neither here. Nor there. I'm just saying you're a Glee fan and a love island.
Fat. Check out our new podcast, a love and love viva. Clear to stop giving up. That's not his week That was sweet listeners. It's been another 10 minutes that we have to cut out as we once again, have to reevaluate our relationship. Anyways. Okay. Oh my god. We haven't even talked about the third person in the triangle.
Okay, it matter. I know it doesn't because suffice it to say echinson's like yeah. Oh my god, I'm gonna have a rough time. We're gonna have a rough time if you don't start opening up. So, yeah, exactly like, oh, you know, you need to open up. He's, I don't want to make you coffee.
She's like, okay. And so, a new boy comes into the villa. Jay, Jay financial analyst Joe. Oh my god, Jay and Remy shoot. It's ready, too. Oh, Remy gets kicked off. Doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Anyway, So yes, so January, come into the villa and essentially I can see all I want to get to know Jane and I'm not like I think physically speaking, if we ignore that face for a second because that's a very subjective concept, right?
But I would say that J is probably the most physically fit. He certainly the most buff, He's definitely the most buff, I don't worry. Yeah. Physically fit is another like, yeah. When I say fit, I mean, in the Vitruvient man sense of the world. Yeah. Anyway, so I said that the Beckham's gone, okay?
Well, new boy, might as well get to know him. David's night up to me. And then she does the craziest crazy thing. One of the funniest things I've ever seen on level island. Is she takes him up to this balcony because they've redone the balcony. Haven't and you can now basically kind of hide.
Yeah. The terrace. The terrace terrace Anyway. So they read on the balcony and She's on up that she don't like follow me up after five minutes, So she got up that crude on her hands and knees. Yeah, literally onto the terrace so that no one can see, I'll go up and then waited for Jay.
As Jay's come up, he's coming through the door, she's gone like gesturing him, get down, get down, get down. You know, and he's like crawled along and like, slid up close to. And Now it's still one of my funny. I think I wouldn't taking photos this season for my tweet.
I'm creating my own original raw content and Michael. I can't lie. It's one of the funniest photos I've got in my like photo library of potential reactions. It's very good because it's just peak Atkinson. Yep, and she does this twice. She does do this twice, just twice and then I think a day later davide finds out.
Right? He full lips. Davido is not. He is not not happy. Remember how she's a Turkish soap opera, well life imitates art, doesn't it? No no, exactly. I know. So I want to quote exactly what David is. Oh, okay. First he goes Laya lia. And then he says, You are a liar.
You are an actress. Go the fuck out. Well, I mean, I want that on a shirt Anyway, yes. So database gives us probably the most iconic line so far this season both groups appropriateness, it's complete. Melodrama, it's complete obvious improvisation and the fact that it's in the middle of what was already a very traumatic and very over the top.
Love triangle going on, right? Like don't even like, you know, we've seen love triangles in the Villa before but normally there are a lot more open. I can suit. No, she's not about that. She is prepared to lie even though she knows inevitably other people will find out. Yes, I think is what makes her the perfect reality show contestant.
I can see really epitomise the gatekeep gas, like, girl boss just a theme and, you know, I know we should encourage toxic behaviour but I want to, you want to make an exception. I want to make an exception. I want to encourage again. So I want I want her to know that even if there are people out here that won't be showed on properly.
I actually quite like the complete over the top drama. I like toxic people Indeed. Toxic, people being rewarded for beast toxic, What. Actually, this is a good transition to talk about another aspect that happened. This last week was that basically at the next recoupling, right? Obviously, it's girls turn to choose.
Obviously, I can sue chooses J. Which leaves Davide, yes at risk, right? And so what ends up happening? Oh, I've missed someone. So, well, even more forgettable. Someone even more on more forgettable, Danica Danica. Yeah, new girl. There's not a lot to describe is there. I mean, she came in and she took a liking to a boy.
That was simping over another girl. Yeah. And then subsequently picked him and realised that actually, that boy was not even remotely interested in her. I don't even think anyways basically at the recoupling Danica chooses. Luca indeed. Making Gemma Choose Dobby day. Exactly. And we've come full circle baby. I mean, come full circle.
So, David is back with Gemma even know he's, well, he's already in 21, is he? No, he's sort of gets to know down a couple briefly, but I don't think he was it super into that. What he says about Danica is she talks a lot? Yeah, which is not a great.
Well I don't think to have a day Davido. I don't think he's a man that wants to know lots of stuff about people. Yeah. Devidate is a very private person both with respect to his personal like but also with respect to your personal Exactly over. Like David is the card to guide that like you date him and he still know your birthday after two years.
All right. Be like why? Yeah, why do I need to know your birthday? I love you naturally naturally. And so, basically, she chooses Luca Luca immediately goes not interested sleeps in the dog house. Gemma doesn't join him by the way. Yeah, which I think is peak jammer peek. I was Gemma giving us Gemma.
Yeah, I know what. I'm not a huge fan of her, but she is growing upcoming, pretty acceptable. I think we've got to. We've got to realise. Is that with that can sue here, we now have an omega for the pack. Indeed, right? We have, we have a, we have the female queen bee.
You mean the alpha? Whoa, is in a female pack there. I make no. Okay. Anyway, so we've got it out. I don't know much about the animal kingdom. Suffice it to say if this was a pack of raptors This is a pack of Raptors Atkins who is that raptor that Chris Pratt wants to fuck.
Yeah. So yes. So if this was a pack of raptors, then yeah. Echinson is the is the raptor that queen bee the Chris Pratt is with, with What's God, I'm kind of love it because because she is, she is the apex predator of love eyes. She is the apex predator.
She is, she is the result of years of what can only be described as genetic. Engineering to achieve the perfect, reality show, contestant, Honestly, gorgeous, smart and crazy. The producers, give them a raise something happened this season. They have made some entertaining, television brought in loads of European. Yeah.
And the truth, they brought in the organisers, from the Hunger Games. They these, these girls and these guys, the David, I obviously being entirely and I can so, obviously being Turkish. Yeah. And well, we weren't coming to town but also of a very central European persuasion. Who, which is bring the drama to different level, and they actually really do put pretty much all of the other girls to show you rightly all of the other girls feel bland by comparison to the these, like, or the girls.
And, guys, I should say girls. And guys, let's just say this season so far, we're only like, two weeks in three weeks, and it's been so entertaining. I forgot about Laura Whitmore, and I never forget about Laura one more. I forget about me. Mm-hmm. And actually, no, because I should mention.
There is one other very notable. What? Noteworthy. Boy Danny, There's also Irish. Yeah, I love Danny. So really, this is actually, this is a remainder propaganda TV show Indeed. This is this is proof as to why we should have remained in the European Union because Love Island is all the more richer for all of its European cars.
Indeed, indeed. Anyways. I mean there's one last little kind of titbit that we can discuss. Speaking of Dammy. We want we want we won't share. I suppose what ends up transpiring, but we can't talk about what's on the obvious, what happens? Well, it is kind of obvious, isn't it?
Timings obviously been paired with Amber's not. Amber sucks was all right. She's she's kind of a plain Jane. Yeah She doesn't got much of a person, she's either contestants that as I described earlier that's like oh I don't really want to open up. I don't I don't open up easily all that myself.
It's like go, you're a love island. You realise that right. Like you're you're literal job for the next eight weeks is to open up and have your heart broken. Yes. Like, that's everyone's job here. Everyone's job here is just suffer emotional misery. Yes. In order to get that Gucci brand deal, correct?
Well, no. It's boohoo a sauce and pretty little thing. Yeah. And Anyway, so she can have me and Danny's kind of tried to like get her to open up and try to interact with that but I just don't think. I don't think that a chemistry and then amber made a play for the Queen Indeed, she made a move against Atkins.
She did she attempted a coup she attempted to assert her dominance as the alpha female And you know what, the other girls kind of teamed up with her The other girl except for yeah. The other girls used to as a human shield to say what they wanted. Yeah. But knowing that it was ultimately Amber's head on the truck.
Yes. And what happened? And so, her head did get shot, so I have to go Trump. The thing is, you can't mess with that kind of apex predator. No, she was always gonna win Atkins. Who was always gonna win that fight and suffice it to say, I think the girls have now with a lot more submissive to their like alpha female leader.
I canna has zero personality, but the guy who runs his Twitter has chefskis amazing personality. They shouldn't be I cannot in there. You should be, I can should be. I kind of with an earp. Yeah, that that manager just feed the lines into so much So we've got amper, and I cannot who.
So Amber. Who's come up with that. Yeah. And Tammy file, it's not very good. Well, we got, I cannot his coupled up with India. Yeah, and there is zero chemistry. Good God. Everyone was of the opinion that I can was just there for two week vacation. Yeah, and that's he, he wasn't a bad guy, right?
It was just that he was. So not interested in playing in the game that it was almost as if like waiting a screen time. Really? No, he was the only time I can was in a shot is when they were filming someone else. Yeah, it's already a minute spice it to say.
I can I can I can in. I can Amber J back and see. Tasha, Tasha Andrew Andrew are all in the bottom. Three, boys and three girls. Yeah, bottom six to go home and Amber will ecosystem stands up first and ambers a little bit smug about that. She's like, oh, oh yeah, I was right.
I until she's told to stand up so Amber Ekansu. Tasha. Stand up Tasha's confused because Tasha's thinking like well, what have? I yeah anything she's been too plain. She's into playing right? Meanwhile, Jay, Andrew and I can. Yeah. And I think I can pretty much already knew that. Yeah.
You could kind of see on his face. It was like all right welcome two weeks About two weeks. I think I think he was hoping for like three or four, but he got and that was it. Yeah, that's that was it Amber? And I kind of went home. Leaving, India and Danny?
Yeah, explore each other's bodies. Oh yeah, hey indeed. And that concludes the rabbit, that's includes last week. Yeah. Oh, this week quite eventful, I would say, I honestly, I'm looking forward every night. I look forward to watching the show, It's been very fast-paced. I just I I think that I quite I would have liked to have seen more of Amber fighting Atkinson.
I think the reason more girls drama. Yeah. There's agency too many fights is because ultimately they were fishing in very different pools with the men. Yeah. Right. Like accuracy, would I think I can say with date, anything, that moves and amber was possibly one of the most selective contestants in Love Island.
History, Two selective, two selective, right? Like I'm not lying like hearing on Love Island. You know what kind of boys? You're gonna get? Yeah, you do right? And if you're not about that then don't go on the island, right? Like, or if you are going on the violin to make a brand deal, then you have to suck it up.
You do You have to go? Okay, well guess I've got to date this guy. Yep. You know, got a hole yourself out anyway, before we finish off. Do you have any final thoughts? No, I gave all my final thoughts at the beginning, really frontloads I found loaded my major suffer through because, you know, it would have been easier for the listener, turbo, listen to our summarise and then switched off when you started waffling on about how gorgeous taturas but spice.
It stay you managed to trick them that's unless they use the skip button. Indeed. Yeah. Which if you want to know what to skip to, I put time into description. Yeah. Just kidding. Cuz I do the descriptions. That can make was the descriptions anyways, that wraps up this episode.
If you enjoyed it, please like it review. Share, subscribe, everything like that. Let us know how we're doing. Share it amongst your friends. Amongst your foes? Yes. Amongst your echin shoes. Amongst your excuse amongst, your daddies Your action suit to your davi days. Exactly. Oh, I mean Adam do you have anything else you want to say?
Well, I've become a raptor this week. Yeah. You I think it's like the ancient Chinese philosopher. Allows you said you know if you ain't got game son you ain't got game. And with that, I've been in Sterling. Welcome a little bit. Bye.