Although we’ve said before that we’d kill for a 24-hour version of Love Island à la Big Brother, for now we’ll have to make do with our hour-long episodes. There’s just so much that gets left on the cutting room floor. Love Island 2024 had no shortage of these unseen moments, like Joey Essex and Diamanté Laiva's unaired connection or Wil Anderson and Uma Jammeh's deep chats, which would have given a lot of necessary background as to why she dramatically left the villa.
It turns out that there was yet another connection left out of the final edit. When we sat down with Trey Norman to discuss his time in the villa, he revealed that he had a connection with another Islander before he was suddenly dumped from the villa. An embryonic connection, some might say.
“I don’t understand why it didn’t make the cut, but when I had my lover’s tiff with Ellie [Jackson] on the terrace on the night before we got kicked out, I went down to the kitchen after that conversation and Grace [Jackson] pulled me [for a chat]… and me and Grace went and sat on the daybeds and for about an hour and a half were constantly non-stop talking about our family life, what we like in a person, what we want to achieve… we clicked, we got along great, and I just came away from that conversation thinking, ‘That’s more like it, that’s a bit of me.’
“And she said the same. The next day when it was the movie night …she said, 'I don’t know what to think about this, I sort of see you in a different light.’”
“It could have probably gone somewhere but it might have not, but there was still more to explore there.
"When movie night came, my destiny was already predetermined by what the viewers saw the night before and voted on."
If we had constant surveillance on those Islanders this never would have happened. Or maybe when Reuben Collins entered the villa the next day he would have had something to say about it - this is some Shakespearean level drama we're missing out on here, we'd like a word with producers.
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Sarah O'Byrne has been writing about Love Island for heat and Closer since May 2023, and in her expert opinion she strongly believes it should be a 24-hour show.