By Lucy Caulkett-
Millie Court and Liam Reardon have been crowned winners of this year’s Love Island on Monday, as they picked up the show’s £50,000 prize.The dating show’s finale attracted an average live audience of 2.8 million.- has been broadcast from its Spanish villa for the past eight weeks.
Millie, a fashion buyer’s assistant from Essex, had initially considered splitting from Welsh bricklayer Liam after he was unfaithful during Casa Amor week, but the pair rekindled their romance.
Speaking after the show, Millie and Liam thanked fans for their support and described their time on Love Island as the “summer of our lives”.
The couple agreed to share the prize money in the finale, which saw ITV2 outperform many of the main terrestrial channels in the 21:00-22:30 BST timeslot, including ITV, BBC Two, Channel 4 and Channel 5.
Speaking after their win, she said: “I can not believe we have just been crowned the winners of Love Island,” before adding: “We have literally had the summer of our lives and we are going to leave here and now explore our future together.”
The sow- a favourite among the youth in particular- brings together interesting and attractive young men and women out to explore love through dating on air. Some take the ir romance and the push for high ratings far by going for full blown sex on television- not a move that should make their mothers proud, but one that gives an eye full to viewers. ITV confirmed that a further 400,000 viewers had watched the final episode on the ITV Hub by late morning on Tuesday.
The other couples to make it to the final were Chloe Burrows and Toby Aromolaran; Faye Winter and Teddy Soares; and Kaz Kamwi and Tyler Cruickshank.
The show had led to several complaints at various stages of its entertainment, as show producers sometimes engaged in stirring up situations which often annoyed viewers, because of the potential it had to ruin relationships, and even aggravate the mental well being of contesters.
Faye’s aggressive reaction to a clip that had implied a suggestion that her partner Teddy had cheated on her, sparked record complaints. Producers were accused of exploiting their knowledge of Faye’s trust issues for ratings sake, but the mischief risked affecting their mental health .
In recent years, the deaths of former contestants Sophie Gradon and Mike Thalassitis, although not directly linked to the show have in the past sparked debate about mental health caused by ill treatment on television.
ITV has already published revised duty-of-care protocols for this year’s contestants, who will be offered “comprehensive psychological support” and a “proactive aftercare package” on their return from Majorca.
Although the show does well for ratings, it fails to establish the good principles of loyalty and empathy, by encouraging even short term cheating, and creating circumstances in which contestants can undergo a spell of mental health issue, which can easily trigger a problem already present in the one subjected to the experience. Cheating has caused many problems throughout history in every society, including murders, it cannot be commendable that the show considers it worth putting such as entertainment for society. It still cannot be denied that most young people enjoy these kind of programmes, but it doesn’t do enough in the way of establishing good principles for young lads and girls.