Love Island’s most complained-about moments – from Maura Higgins mounting Tommy Fury to Dani Dyer’s tears
LOVE Island might be all fun in the sun for the contestants – but it’s also delivered no end of drama for us lot back home.
In fact, nearly 10,000 complaints have flown in over the past five years as shocked viewers put down the remote and called up Ofcom.
From Maura Higgins clambering all over Tommy Fury like he was a beefy climbing frame to poor Dani Dyer sobbing, there have been plenty of memorable moments.
But which got the Great British public hopping up and down on their sofas – while the stars hopped between beds over in Majorca?
Broadband and TV experts at Uswitch have trawled the Ofcom data to find the most outrageous moments from the show.
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6. Curtis Pritchard’s Casa Amor fallout
Bungling Curtis Pritchard unleashed all manner of hell on Amy Hart in 2019 when their cute relationship turned into a car crash.
The air stewardess was planning to tell Curtis she had fallen in love with him after being reunited for the first time since Casa Amor.
But told her he tried to pursue Jourdan instead – but couldn’t couple up with because she said no. Oh mate.
Amy was devastated and so were many viewers – with 314 lodging complaints with the TV watchdog.
5. Finn’s ‘fake news’ headline
In one of the more brutal rounds on Love Island couples get shown headlines from articles about them.
However, like a semi-pro football version of Donald Trump, Finn Tapp was left crying “fake news” after one was shown suggesting his head was turned in Casa Amor.
In fact, he was good as gold but Paige Turley believed the article (which, we should add, wasn’t from The Sun).
Needless to say mayhem and accusations ensued and 544 people complained.
4. Georgia Steele and Jack Fowler’s kiss
Fourth on the list with 655 complaints was the moment Georgia Steel and Jack Fowler kissed after their date.
Laura hunted her down and accused her turning an innocent kiss on the cheek into something much more steamy.
The clip was replayed again and again, VAR style, to find out who was at fault after Georgia denied trying to make a move.
Laura fumed: “My best mate has gone behind my back and tried to snog the guy I’m coupled up with.”
3. Maura pounces on Tommy
No-nonsense Maura might be best pals with Tommy’s girlfriend Molly-Mae Hague but in 2019 she was all over him like a duvet on a cold night.
The 30-year-old Irish model’s intense pursuit of the boxer outraged fans as she was seen straddling and trying to kiss him.
He was heard saying no and trying to swerve the kiss, with one viewer tweeting: “Maura is like a bloody predator. Forcing herself on Tommy like that is wrong.”
In the end, 709 people complained – but Tommy wasn’t one of them and they went on to be very close pals.
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2. Joe and Lucy ‘controlling’ row
Joe Garratt was forced to defend himself after he told Lucie he was uncomfortable about her “strange” and “disrespectful” friendship with Tommy Fury (him again!)
He was accused of treating her badly but later told The Sun: “I didn’t manipulate or abuse her.
“I am gutted that it has been perceived in that way because it wasn’t like that at all.”
The moment racked up more than 600 Ofcom complaints with people objecting to the surfer’s treatment by Joe and other Islanders.
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1. Dani Dyer’s tears over ‘cheating’ Jack
Love Island bosses found themselves on the receiving end of some serious rage from the Dani Dyer fan club in 2018.
Producers thought it would be a great wheeze to show her a clip of boyfriend Jack Fincham looking like his head has been turned by an ex.
Of course, nothing of the sort was going on and as Dani broke down in floods of tears.
Meanwhile, 2,644 complained to Ofcom that this kind of behaviour was very much not their type on paper – making it Love Island most-complained about moment.