The summer has flown by and so has Love Island‘s longest series yet. All good things must come to an end with this weekend seeing one couple crowned winners… read more
The summer has flown by and so has Love Island‘s longest series yet.
All good things must come to an end with this weekend seeing one couple crowned winners of Love Island 2018.
Filling that ITV2 9pm slot in our hearts may be difficult, but we’ve compiled a selection of reality shows that might just have what it takes.
If you’re interested in a complete change of pace from Love Island, this Netflix cult hit follows six strangers living together in Tokyo.
Watch on Netflix
Basically just Love Island without the romance, Ex on the Beach is like an older, trashier sister show.
Watch on Now TV
Channel 4’s dating show is more of a prim and proper approach to romance, wherein contestants go on fully-clothed dates before deciding whether they want to be together.
Watch on All 4
We all know being fully clothed is overrated, but Naked Attraction takes it a notch further by introducing prospective partners to each other – completely naked.
Watch on All 4
Nothing quite beats the old outrageous classic. After a whopping 18 series, this reality stalwart is still going strong.
Watch on Channel 5 On Demand
Joseph Fiennes has explained why he refused to perform a certain scene in The Handmaid’s Tale season two. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the actor revealed the season two script originally included a… read more
Joseph Fiennes has explained why he refused to perform a certain scene in The Handmaid’s Tale season two.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the actor revealed the season two script originally included a scene in which his character Fred would rape his wife Joy (Yvonne Strahovski).
“I guess in many ways, as abhorrent and nasty and evil as Fred is, I have to defend parts of him,” Fiennes said.
“In episode nine, we had a moment where Fred was going to rape – after meeting Luke [Offred’s husband] – rape Serena in a hotel room straight after, and it just didn’t track for me. I had to go out on a limb and refuse to do it because I felt that even though Fred is who he is, he’s human.”
He continued: “I think that he would be reeling from the interaction with Luke and that suddenly the reality comes face to face with him and he would be digesting that and trying to understand it, and he wouldn’t necessarily be switched on by being in Canada in a new hotel and trying to heavily persuade his wife to do something that she wouldn’t want to do.”
The actor added: “Yvonne had tracked Serena so beautifully that her disenfranchisement with the regime and Fred was so beautifully charted it didn’t need a heavy scene to kind of suddenly push her over the edge.”
The Handmaid’s Tale continues Sunday on Channel 4 at 9pm.
Three glamorous drag queens will appear as contestants in a Blind Date first this weekend. He was the genius behind drag legend Lily Savage, but this Saturday Paul O’Grady will be… read more
Three glamorous drag queens will appear as contestants in a Blind Date first this weekend.
He was the genius behind drag legend Lily Savage, but this Saturday Paul O’Grady will be welcoming some of the drag queens of today on to Channel 5’s Blind Date.
Marking the occasion with Lily’s iconic leopard print coat, the host will welcome criminologist Luke to the show to interview three potential suitors for a romantic date.
However, this week there’s a bit of a twist. What Luke won’t know is there will in fact be three fabulous drag queens waiting for him on the other side of the wall.
The three queens gracing our screens in Saturday’s episode will be Shyanne O’Shea from Essex, Trampagne from Portsmouth and Anna Phylactic (get it?) from Manchester.
“I’m so happy that we have included drag queens on this series of Blind Date. It’s about time – it is 2018 after all,” Paul O’Grady said in a statement.
“Having been a drag artiste myself, I’m very proud to be part of this Blind Date first.”
Blind Date airs Saturday (July 28) at 8pm on Channel 5.
Celebs Go Dating has revealed the latest stars to join the agency, and this year we have Love Island stars, TOWIE favourites and a Sugarbabe in the mix. The popular E4… read more
Celebs Go Dating has revealed the latest stars to join the agency, and this year we have Love Island stars, TOWIE favourites and a Sugarbabe in the mix.
The popular E4 series is returning to screens this autumn with a new host of famous faces hoping to find love.
So who is excited for the new line-up of #CelebsGoDating? We can't wait to see @oliviajade_att @Chloe_Sims @VasJMorgan @alikalfus @Sam_Craske Eyal Booker and Mutya Buena 😍💕❤️😘♥️😍 pic.twitter.com/CddusS1Urx
— Celebs Go Dating (@CelebsGoDating) July 25, 2018
On the line-up this year we have former Sugarbabe Mutya Buena, Made In Chelsea‘s Alik Alfus, Diversity member Sam Craske and Love Island stars Eyal Booker and Olivia Attwood.
The Only Way Is Essex‘s Chloe Sims and Vas J Morgan also join the celebrity line-up.
In the new video trailer, the stars reveal their reasons for joining the dating agency.
Love Island‘s Olivia says: “Clearly on my own I cannot be trusted, so hopefully Nadia and Paul can point me in the right direction.”
Meanwhile, Vas confesses: “I am very desperate for a man and this is my last hope. No I’m only joking. Well kind of…”
Lady Nadia Essex and Tom Read Wilson will return to assist clients in their quest to find the perfect man or woman and this time around they will be joined by new dating guru Paul Carrick Brunson, following Eden Blackman’s departure earlier this year.
Celebs Go Dating returns this autumn on E4.
A petition to remove Netflix series Insatiable from the streaming site has reached over 100,000 signatures. The show, starring Debby Ryan, revolves around a young girl called Patty who… read more
A petition to remove Netflix series Insatiable from the streaming site has reached over 100,000 signatures.
The show, starring Debby Ryan, revolves around a young girl called Patty who is bullied at school because of her weight, but is able to exact revenge on her classmates after shedding some pounds over the summer.
The trailer, which features Ryan wearing a fat suit, received serious backlash after landing last week, with many viewers arguing the “fat-shaming” series might perpetuate unrealistic beauty standards for women and encourage eating disorders.
Organiser Florence Given wrote: “The toxicity of this series, is bigger than just this one particular series. This is not an isolated case, but part of a much larger problem that I can promise you every single woman has faced in her life, sitting somewhere on the scale of valuing their worth on their bodies, to be desirable objects for the male gaze. That is exactly what this series does. It perpetuates not only the toxicity of diet culture, but the objectification of women’s bodies.
“This series needs to be cancelled. The damage control of releasing this series will be far worse, insidious and sinister for teenage girls, than it will be damaging for Netflix in their loss of profit.”
Insatiable‘s lead actress Debby Ryan has since responded to the wave of criticism, arguing the show in fact tackles these difficult issues “through satire”.
“As someone who cares deeply about the way our bodies, especially women’s, are shamed and policed in society, I was so excited to work on Insatiable because it’s a show that addresses and confronts those ideas through satire,” she wrote.
“Satire is a way to poke fun at the hardest things, bring darkness into the light, and enter difficult conversations.”
Ryan continued: “I have to laugh at my pain, otherwise I’ll dissolve and weep and get stuck instead of working through it. It’s a coping mechanism and, for a lot of people who are telling these stories, a healing mechanism.
“Over the last few days I’ve seen how many voices are protective and fiercely outspoken about the themes that come into play in this story. I’m grateful for that, and comforted by it, because I want those stories told right too.”
Former Love Island star Kady McDermott has revealed the show’s lie detector test “isn’t even real”. Last night’s Love Island episode saw the islanders face the lie detector challenge…. read more
Former Love Island star Kady McDermott has revealed the show’s lie detector test “isn’t even real”.
Last night’s Love Island episode saw the islanders face the lie detector challenge. This year, it was the boys turn to be grilled by the girls as they were forced to answer a series of questions truthfully.
The results caused a fair bit of drama in the villa when some of the boys were exposed as liars. However, series two star Kady has revealed that the answers are actually all made up anyway.
Taking to Twitter, she said: “Jack why aren’t you at least lying ffs the lie detector isn’t even real ffs you dumb a** poor Laura.”
As followers started questioning what the reality star meant, Kady posted again saying: “Oh you guys actually think it’s a legit lie detector? Lol.”
The lie detector challenge caused some serious tension between many of the island’s couples last night, including Jack Fincham and Dani Dyer, Laura Crane and Jack Fowler, Alex George and Alexandra Cane and Laura Anderson and Paul Knops.
Fan favourites Jack and Dani suffered in particular after it was revealed Jack’s head might be turned by other girls outside the villa.
After the challenge, Dani admitted to the camera: “Any girl in this world, if they got that question and their boyfriend got it wrong, they would be upset and I don’t think he understands that.”
She continued: “I didn’t want him to fail that question. If anything, that was the one question I cared about. And he failed it for me.”
Love Island continues tonight (Tuesday) at 9pm on ITV2.
Tonight’s Love Island preview has landed, and Dr Love is turning on the charm in order to win Alexandra back. Poor old Alex definitely isn’t the smoothest when it comes to the ladies,… read more
Tonight’s Love Island preview has landed, and Dr Love is turning on the charm in order to win Alexandra back.
Poor old Alex definitely isn’t the smoothest when it comes to the ladies, let’s be honest. But after messing things up with Alexandra this week, he decides its time to woo his woman like never before.
After some encouragement from pals Jack and Dani, Alex takes Alexandra off for a private chat to demonstrate his flirting skills in tonight’s episode.
“What brings you here tonight?” he asks. “Have you been waiting for a doctor to turn up?”
Leaning in seductively, he continues: “I’ve heard you’ve got a broken heart, so… I just wanted to come here and fix it.
“I’m actually a fireman and a bloody stripper at the same time, you wouldn’t believe it!”
Alexandra teases back: “Would you strip for me later?”
And then going in for the kill, Alex replies: “We’ve got to have our first kiss and then we’ll strip after, shall we? Let’s take it from here.”
Oi oi, Alex! Who knew he had it in him?
Meanwhile, Laura is left feeling a little bit jealous after learning that Paul featured in a rather steamy Britney Spears video.
Love Island continues tonight (Friday) at 9pm on ITV2.
Emma Willis has revealed what she knows about this year’s Celebrity Big Brother line-up. Appearing on Good Morning Britain, CBB host Emma said: “I’ve not been able to say… read more
Emma Willis has revealed what she knows about this year’s Celebrity Big Brother line-up.
Appearing on Good Morning Britain, CBB host Emma said: “I’ve not been able to say anything until the eye was released, but Celebrity Big Brother is coming in a few weeks.”
Earlier this week, it was revealed the upcoming series will have an ‘Eye of the Storm’ theme. The title has led some fans wondering if Stormy Daniels – the stripper who allegedly had an affair with Donald Trump – might be making an appearance on the line-up.
Discussing the rumour, Emma said: “Because the series is called ‘The Eye of the Storm’, people are connecting the two words together. Where has that come from?
“But it would be an amazing booking. I’m still waiting for the confirmed final list.
“You hear speculation and you hear ‘We might have so and so’, and you get really excited at the possibility and then it doesn’t happen and you get disappointed – so I just wait until the week before when I know everyone has signed their contracts.”
Emma added it is hard to tell how good a series is going to be purely from the line-up. She said: “I’ve seen lists before and gone, ‘This is going to be incredible,’ and it’s just been normal.
“Then you see a list where you don’t know half of them, and it is phenomenal. You just can’t predict it.”
Among the rumoured line-up is Love Island star Gabby Allen, model Talulah-Eve, TOWIE‘s Bobby Norris, Ex On The Beach‘s Charlotte Dawson, Queer Eye‘s Jonathan Van Ness, The Chuckle Brothers, Corrie actress Georgia May Foote and ex Strictly dancer Brendan Cole.
Celebrity Big Brother will return soon on Channel 5.
It’s time for another Love Island re-coupling, which can only mean one thing. All hell is breaking loose in the villa. A new, first-look preview shows new girl Steph… read more
It’s time for another Love Island re-coupling, which can only mean one thing. All hell is breaking loose in the villa.
A new, first-look preview shows new girl Steph giving Jack a piece of her mind after finding out that he shared a smooch with other Love Island newcomer, Laura.
“I know you kissed,” she says.
Jack replies: “I actually wanted to be the one to tell you that.”
Steph asks: “When was either of you going to pull me and tell me?”
As Jack tries to explain himself, she interrupts: “Mate, you need your head f**king screwed on a little bit tighter.”
“I don’t think I do,” Jack shoots back.
The conversation suddenly begins to escalate as Steph yells: “You’re contradicting yourself! Are you thick?”
The clip finally shows Jack walking away from the fire pit while Steph says: “Okay, walk away you d**khead”.
Meanwhile, the rest of the villa are preparing themselves for the next re-coupling. And no one is less pleased about the impending decision than Georgia and Sam.
“When we get into this couple, it’s going to be horrendous,” Sam warns in the preview.
Breaking down in tears, Georgie replied: “Sam, I honestly don’t know what to do.”
Love Island continues tonight (Thursday) at 9pm on ITV2.
Sam Bird and Georgia Steel have reportedly walked from the Love Island villa. The shocking news emerged yesterday afternoon that two islanders had decided to quit the ITV2 show… read more
Sam Bird and Georgia Steel have reportedly walked from the Love Island villa.
The shocking news emerged yesterday afternoon that two islanders had decided to quit the ITV2 show just weeks before the grand final.
The names of those who had left were kept under wraps. However, reports later claimed it was in fact Georgia and Sam who had chosen to call it a day.
The couple allegedly threw in the towel due to the latest re-coupling, which saw Sam and Georgia split up in order to keep their position in the villa.
A source told the Mirror: “They filmed the re-coupling and afterwards Sam and Georgia weren’t happy so walked out of the villa.
“None of their fellow Islanders could persuade them to stay.”
The insider added: “The explosive scenes will be aired tomorrow or Friday.”
Love Island continues tonight (Thursday) at 9pm on ITV2.
