I’m Glad y’all ain’t the producers

The bombshells weren’t bomb shelling and they needed to leave, I agree. It just seemed like a waste to do the “stand behind your vote” thing when the choice was so obvious. They should’ve saved that for a more contentious vote and had this one be a quick group vote

I just think they should have used the “stand behind who you want to stay” when stakes were higher. I mean obviously the new islanders were going to leave so it just felt pointless to do. It didn’t add any drama other than some of the audience thinking that Leah should have stood behind Cass

I super agree with this I feel like the hate is directed more to the fact that rob did not get voted out like they wanted

Why would producers get rid of someone yall hate Okay he leaves who is gonna bring the edge that we need ? Not miguel lol

Personally it didn't bother me that Cass had no one behind her. I'm surprised it's become an issue. The girl got there like four days earlier. Did anyone expect people to go against Liv when the girls just made up last episode?

The part that bothered me was there was no tension or build up for the elimination. The viewers knew the moment it was announced who was going home.

The producers should've used that later on when it would've had more of an impact. Like if it was Kordell and Kendall up there along with Nicole and Serena or Aaron/Kendall and Nicole/Kaylor. Now that'd be hyped, not the shit we got last night.

I keep seeing people say that after everyone stood behind rob and liv that producers should’ve said “it’s love island not friendship island liv & rob pack your bags” like why in the world would they do that? we know that liv and rob are entertaining and will be fun to watch in casa amor. cutting the 2 that are driving all of the fun and drama this season right before casa amor would be a huge mistake, especially for cassidy and nigel who the viewers don’t have any connection to yet

Yeah, the vote really did not bother me. Worse things have happened to islanders that have had more of an impact. I feel like the audience gets more sensitive about things that happen on the show than the islanders do. Also, the UK audience is just miles scarier than the US imo.

Dumpings are always brutal to bombshells but OG supremacy is at an all time high this season because the OG’s are actually giving us something. I can’t stand Rob but I’d prefer to have someone up there that makes me feel something, even if it is ire, than have someone up there that disappears into the background.

There’s a be kind mindset on this sub? Lmaooo

People want to get rid of Rob and Liv but will complain when the show gets boring once they’ve left.

People loved it when it saved JaNa. The only change they made is that they made people stand behind their votes so there wouldn’t be any more “backseat” hiding from your choice.

Now the same people are mad that Rob was saved. They don’t want fairness or kindness. They just want what they want and whatever will get them that is fine.

I agree. I’ve been watching reality tv since the 00’s and it’s meant to be messy and full of drama. That’s why we watch it. When they said how voting was going to happen i was cracking up because it’s brutal but perfect for reality tv.

Seriously, I’m so pissed that everybody is trying to vote Rob and Liv out because they give us such great tv. I don’t want love island to be boring again ffs.

Kind of funny to see everyone talking about mental health and super upset about the way the voting went last night but then if you peek at the announcements of the three bombshells, comments are flooded with “bombshells aren’t bombshelling” and “who’s approving these bombshells”.

Here is the announcement post from LI’s insta and some of the top comments…..

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The vote didn’t bother me at all. Just from a human and empathetic standpoint, I did honestly feel bad for Cassidy because she literally didn’t have one person standing behind her.

People were mad the bombshells got voted off?? WHYYYYY I was so happy lmao

If the public had their way, everyone that causes drama would be voted out. The rest of the cast would be holding hands and singing "Kumbaya" while picking flowers. Nobody wants to watch that 😂.

Exactly! People are saying this is the best LI season in a long time. Well, why do you think that is?! The producers are giving the drama and conflict. Do we want people to pair up for good, and be nice and non-problematic all season? That would lead to a very boring show. Nigel and Cass were boring as hell and I’m glad they’re gone.

I agree with this so much. Imagine casa without Rob and liv? Come on people. Yes it was sad for Cassidy, but do y’all really think she didn’t expect that??? Lol. She was there for 48 hours.

Hard agree

Producers are making sure that there will be lots of drama. They know people hate Rob and will give us a satisfying end with him later on

i personally dont care about the bombshells, but it was a cruel way to dump them imo. i knew rob and liv would be saved but they did it an incredibly embarrassing way.

I would have been super disappointed if Rob and Liv left personally. Love Liv. Hate Rob’s personality but I still very much enjoy looking at him.

Didn’t bother me to see them leave, just felt bad they didn’t get a chance. Its what I expected tho and I’m fine they left I wanted Rob to stay lmao

Like, I think it was sad for Cass and it didn't make me feel good as a viewer to know the whole time that her and Nigel weren't going to get any votes. I think it's a great dramatic concept, but it was used at the wrong time so it just ended up feeling mean imo. But beyond that, it felt overproduced - like yeah of course every decision comes from production, but this just felt like they looked at the bottom 2 couples, saw Rob or Liv would go home if they just sent the bottom couple home, so they got the islanders involved knowing that letting them vote would save the OGs for Casa drama. And now we're going into Casa with 2 singles with no real connections. None of this is fun drama for me. I hope they bring this back when it would do more

Agreed!

I think what happened here with those three bombshells was just bad timing on production’s part with casa coming up

What would have made more sense was introducing one girl and one boy, keep boy/girl ratio even, have EVERYONE (including connor) get to recouple and THEN do a favorite couple vote and auto dump the couple with the least amount of votes before casa

I think trying to introduce THREE bombshells was just too much this close to casa, additionally had no one been dumped I personally wouldve felt like all three of them essentially got free rides into casa. They had 0 time to really get to know anyone and they wouldve gone into casa ready to couple up and get to know a new crop of people.

Kenny I think was the smartest out of the three of them, he made it a point to continuously pursue the same person and go for someone who was single. I think where Cass/Nigel went wrong in the time they had was trying to pursue multiple people.

ALSO, I think an even bigger mistake Cass made was picking rob. She shouldve just picked connor vs someone who clearly has unresolved feelings for someone who left the villa.

ADDITIONALLY, Nigel had a bit of a point in getting upset with Liv after the recoupling. If her reaction to connor leaving was going to be that strong, and she was already stating she didnt really feel anything for nigel, then she couldve done a friendship couple with connor and they both couldve waited for new bombshells/casa.

While I’m glad connor got his karma and was dumped, from a game play perspective both Liv/Cass wouldve done better picking him, if cass had picked him first liv wouldve went for rob anyways

ANYWAYS THOUGH, the two bombshells being dumped im fine with because its super obvious they wouldve pursued new people in casa anyways. I’m sure its exactly what kenny is going to do and i HOPE JaNa explores her options too

Personally I just think it was a great concept wasted on a very easy to guess elimination. The producers had to know how this elimination would go regardless, so doing it this way just seemed pointless.

I’m not coming from the “be kind” mentality at all. I just thought it was boring and predictable 🤷🏽‍♀️ They should’ve made a couple go home if they really wanted to shake things up with an elimination.

It’s just predictable and repetitive, we all knew who was going home so why make us sit through half an hour of that?

Yes it's reality TV but they are still people lol

They ain’t bombshells anymore they can gooooo

Yeah, I’m with OP. I was relieved.

Though I did feel bad for Cassidy.

I haven’t seen anyone arguing that the people who got eliminated should have stayed. The point they’re making is that they could’ve dumped the two of them in a dramatic fashion without humiliating them. They have a point. I’ve seen every US/AUS/UK and I’m struggling to remember a point where the producers did something like this. I understand the “reality TV” point you’re making, but this was unnecessary.

Producers made sure there was no “backseat voting” this time around 😂😂😂

👏🏼👏🏼 I like Liv calling people out. It could be so interesting if she and Rob do start a little something before casa and he will eventually be dishonest and gaslighty to her too, and Liv will not be scared to call it out loud and proud. It will justify Leah to some of the other islanders. He will pick a new girl from casa and be saved by the producers again. Leah and Miguel go on to be fan faves.

I feel like the producers saw the results of the public vote and then decided what type of house vote would let them keep Rob.

It was so obvious that the house wouldn’t keep the two new people if given a choice.

I wasn’t mad at it. And the stand behind vote keeps people honest. No more “ it wasn’t me.”

I felt bad for Cassidy, but she should have stuck with her gut, something was off with Rob from the get, but I guess she thought him choosing her to make out with in the challenge was enough 🥴.

I will say my biggest takeaway from this episode was how “ conveniently” Rob and Liv are back on friendly terms. I smelll a rat..err.. snake.

I think it’s just odd that Miguel/Liv were exempt from a vote last week(? I think it was last week?) since he was new and now the latest bombshells weren’t.

I knew Rob and Liv would be saved - that was nothing new and it’s common to save OGs in love island lore. And I was excited at first about the islanders standing behind their pick because I thought they’d all stand up and choose at once and is such a great way to make everyone transparent. But the long drawn out process of going one by one was so humiliating for the bombshells - I just wish they hadn’t wasted such a good move on this situation and brutalised them that badly

My issue with last night’s episode was why even have the bombshells if they were just going to be eliminated almost immediately. Why bother introducing them at all?

It felt like filler content leading up to Casa Amor. It was the worst episode this season, in my opinion. I don’t see anything wrong with adopting practices from the UK version, which I consider the standard and generally superior to the US version.

I thought it was hard on Cassidy because Leah could at least have given her a friendship stand, but other than that, I thought it was an amazing twist and amazing TV!!

The same people were going to go home whether the girls, the guys, the public, or the producers picked. They only existed on the show for 24 hours before the public vote ended, so they were never going to be favorites. I think if the newbie couples were immune, people would be a lot more upset at what islanders ended up going home. Also the bombshells were bombing hard anyways so even if we did give them more time, it’d be the same result

If I was the producer, Rob would be gone. And the casa amor men would be cuter.

Agree 100%. Makes no sense to keep this newcomers. The story line goes on with the people “we know”.

Agree agree agree. The loyalty to the OG cast is always something that runs deep in this show. I would’ve loved Cass to stay she’s so sweet and beautiful. But her and Nigel were the choice that made the most sense.

Even if Leah did back up Cass she still would’ve gone home. And then Leah would have more issues in the villa with Liv.

I didn’t mind seeing them go. The way they did it was pretty mean & humiliating tho. They could have had the islanders secretly text their votes like they’ve done in previous UK seasons.

Agreed 😂 bye bombshells better luck next time

Nigel lost me with him scolding Liv for having feelings

I feel like the people that don’t understand why this dumping was so awful and gloss over the mental health aspect aren’t familiar with Love Island UK and the uncomfortably high rate of suicides from people on that show early on.

Wait, its the Leah stans that are unhappy Rob stayed and they certainly are not kind!

they can never make me hate liv. she brings drama and is a definition of a girls girl but isn’t weird like leah but they’ll praise leah 🙄🙄🙄they hate her for nothing.

The ONLY thing about the vote that was lame was the fact that I knew the moment they said "The Islanders will choose" who was going on home, so it lost the suspense. But otherwise, I completely agree. Nigel and Cassidy were useless on this show and would've been boring in Casa. This was the best choice

Yeah I found it interesting how this was the final straw for people

I appreciate producer interference because audience voting usually kills the show. People get rid of all the villains and interesting people, leaving just the "loving," boring ass couples. That's why Love Island endings are usually so low energy. The only time I could get behind a dumping was when they dumped Keenan, and by association, Kay-Kay, because that whole thing was uncomfortable.

u guys are so mean omg 😭 ik y’all view these people as just entertainment, but theyre still PEOPLE & last nights voting was terrible 

I think it's a combination of the vote not sending Rob home and the viewers relating so much to the boring, average female bombshells like Cass, her being humiliated during the vote feels like a personal attack.

People forget this is a GAME. Yes it would have been nice for Leah to give a pity vote to Cassie but that’s not why she was cast. Like everyone else she wants to play a smart game. If I had to choose between a brand new islander who was already clearly leaving being mad at me or allll the other girls in the house being mad at me, I would pick the former without even thinking about it. Voting is a form of loyalty in this game and Leah made the smart choice.

They’re not coming from a “be kind” mindset. A lot of them are coming from “Rob and Liv ganged up on Leah so I want them out” mindset and the producers said aht aht.

Yeah, but that’s literally not the point the point is that don’t make the voting so obvious like the way they went about it you could tell right off the bat who was going home. There was no anticipation. There was no antcieness There was no shock factor there was none of that, like you literally couldn’t even sit there and root for the person you actually wanted to go home because you just knew there was no possible way they were going home this week like I was literally hoping and praying that this round they would send Rob home, but literally as soon as they explained how the elimination was going to happen and how the Islanders would decide there was no way I could even hope for Rob to go home because I knew there was no way he was and as other people have said in other comments, this is love Island not friendship Island and nobody knows about liv and Rob yet because they haven’t told anybody so literally it was a popularity contest last night, one that there was no possible way that Cassidy and Nigel could possibly win so it was a set up… there was no need for them to drag it out like they did if the obvious answer was Cassidy and Nigel should’ve saved this form of voting for a more dramatic week if anything

I just also think it was the perfect opportunity for a vote like this. Last vote, there was so much he said she said. People at home were blaming the edit saying we probably didn’t see full discussion of how they got to their vote. But this gets rid of all those complaints: stand behind who you want to save & that’s it. But now “that’s mean” lol

I’m glad this vote happened and how things went down! I honestly would not have been invested in Cass or Nigel’s storyline in Casa.

I mean it was just like a standard UK vote though just more embarrassing for since people had to share their vote so publicly. There was no suspense though we all knew Liv and Rob were staying so at that point they just humiliated Cassidy. I didn't want Cassidy and Nigel to stay but I didn't think they deserved that either...

If the vote had been more contentious I think it would have been an interesting twist, but the most surprising thing for me in that twist was that anyone voted for Nigel.

I actually love that the producers made them vote this way because it felt almost retaliatory to how some of the islanders tried to pin that last vote on Leah. I also think Leah was in a really tough position- while it’s easy to say she should’ve stood behind Cassidy because it wouldn’t have mattered for the tally, I could easily see her getting “othered” by that group of girls if she did that

Yassssssssss! Im here for entertainment and the people on the show know what they are signing up for so why feel so bad ? It’s all fake and entertainment. Every post now its all about feeling bad for Cassy .

Forreal! It makes for much better drama if they send islanders that have been in the villa for while to casa instead of two new bombs that no one’s really invested in and clearly aren’t connecting with their couple

I’m not at all upset about them going, it makes perfect sense. However, I did feel really bad for Cass. Like really reallyyyyyyy bad, it was so brutal and humiliating to watch.

THIS.

Some criticism is fair. For example, doing a public vote based fire pit session the day after a recoupling, and one that I volved brand new people just doesn't make sense.

Let's get the public to vote in their favourite couple when 1/3 of them are brand new and we have barely even seen them interact.

The producers are GENUIS with this last vote. They had to do individual votes vs group bc they knew the islanders would feel more pressure to stick to their loyalties. If it was a group vote they 100% would’ve voted rob and liv out making for a boring second half of the season. They need to get their FLOWERS this season

It sure did keep it entertaining. My heart did go out for Cassidy though. I was hoping Leah would have stood behind her, especially since that very same night, Cassidy thanked Leah for being so welcoming when she first arrived. I knew her one vote obviously wouldn’t save her, but she could have done so she at least had one vote. I was fine seeing the guy go. Casa Amor, yay.

Literally nobody said that. It was just a wasted format on a predictable dumping.

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The producers just wanted to get rid of Cass so Rob and Liv will rematch… they knew the result of letting the islanders pick who to save. It will always be the OGs and their besties

Look I gotta be honest the UK is a snore this year. Like watching paint dry.

What makes "reality" television work is the illusion that what we are watching is happening spontaneously and that the players have a stake in the game. I had finally reached the point where I forgave the abysmal acting of Rob in favor of a script that recalled the best days of Love Island UK (think Ekin-Su sneaking out on the terrace). Yesterday's coincidences were a little too convenient, and I finally had to admit there's nothing behind this curtain but a humbug pretending he's the Wizard of Oz.

These contestants willing signed up to be on reality tv!!

I fast forwarded through it so obvious what would happen

I love this szn idc

Those bombshells were definitely boring, and I am glad they are gone. It is weird, though, that they gave Liv/Miguel immunity during the last vote, but not Cass and the other guy (don't even remember his name, lol) this time. Producers must have known they were both casting misses.

I’m here for the love but mostly the friendships. I’m surprised Rob hasn’t realized America doesn’t support his treatment of Leah and pivot. Looks only get ya so far!

I’m surprised anyone felt bad for Cassidy. I found her pretentious and unlikable. I’m glad she got her 5m of roasting rob and departure

thank YOU

FACTSSSS

Rob + Liv = 🙄🥱

I think you’re confused. No one cares that the bombshells left. It would have been better if the vote was between 4 popular people. This was a waste of vote.