Love Islander

English

Etymology

From Love Island +‎ -er.

Noun

Love Islander or Love Islander (plural Love Islanders or Love Islanders)

1. A contestant on the dating reality show Love Island.
   • 2017 August 8, Unity Blott, “Worlds apart! Love Islanders Camilla Thurlow and Jamie Jewitt post about their ’incredible’ trip to Greek refugee camp (while their co-stars ’charge thousands’ to hit the party circuit)”, in Daily Mail‎^[1], London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-12-13:

     Worlds apart! Love Islanders Camilla Thurlow and Jamie Jewitt post about their 'incredible' trip to Greek refugee camp (while their co-stars 'charge thousands' to hit the party circuit)

   • 2019, Emma Baird, Highland Wedding, Pink Glitter Publishing, →ISBN:

     I spotted five soap stars, three Love Island finalists, two Hollywood A-listers and… GLORY BE. Sam Heughan himself. He was deep in conversation with one of the Love Islanders, who’d dressed as if she was still on a desert island in the middle of the summer.

   • 2019, Ben Elton, Identity Crisis, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN:

     But beneath the tattooed skin it soon turned out that the Rainbow Islanders were pretty much as boring as the Love Islanders had been. Without the romantic tension that had been the only reason for the show ever existing, the whole thing was a bust.

   • 2019, Simone Goodman, Look at Me Now, London: Boldwood Books Ltd, →ISBN:

     I’ve not seen Love Island, but Poppy told me the contestants have sex with each other right in front of the cameras – Faith didn’t sleep with Jerry, nor was she planning to, but we all agreed he’d make an interesting on-screen date. Jerry was well up for it throughout the planning process, though Poppy had warned that many ex-Love Islanders require psychological counselling after they exit the show.

   • 2020, Barney Samson, Desert Islands and the Liquid Modern, [London]: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 125–126:

     The Love Islanders are tempted to participate by the seductive offer of public attention, “the scarcest of all commodities” (Bauman 1992, xx). Such attention is in itself potentially damaging. Caroline Flack, the presenter of the first five seasons of Love Island, took her own life in February 2020, with “damaging social media posts” and intrusive media coverage cited as contributing to her death (Proctor 2020).

   • 2020, Camilla Thurlow, Not the Type: Finding Your Place in the Real World, London: Metro Publishing, John Blake Publishing, →ISBN:

     Many broad-brushstroke criticisms have been applied to Love Islanders, one of the most widespread being our stupidity. I found that particularly frustrating. It is very dangerous to characterise a group of people as stupid.

   • 2020, Rachel Johnson, Rake’s Progress: My Political Midlife Crisis, London: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, →ISBN:

     Anyway, if you are a woman after a certain age, the time, effort and energy it takes not to frighten horses is truly terrifying. The female admin makes the grooming schedules of the Love Islanders – both male and female – look cursory and slapdash.

   • 2020, Matt Farquharson, Anna Whitehouse, Where’s My Happy Ending? Happily Ever After and How the Heck to Get There, London: Bluebird, Pan Macmillan, published 2021, →ISBN:

     We’re shown the Olympian bodies of Love Islanders, but we’re never party to the lows once the cameras stop.

   • 2021, Jack Whitehall with Hilary Whitehall and Michael Whitehall, How to Survive Family Holidays, London: Sphere, →ISBN:

     Using the platform I have unwittingly provided them with, they will dish out their own received wisdom, once again maximising every moment of fame they can get out of their brief time in the sun, like a pair of wizened Love Islanders on statins.

   • 2022, Laura Vaughan, Let’s Pretend, London: Corvus, →ISBN:

     We were at Maddie’s again, prepping for our first public appearance. I assured Dan we wouldn’t have to put on too much of a show. Hand holding, a touch of light nuzzling, heads resting on shoulders … that was more than enough. We weren’t a couple of Love Islanders. The key is to be relaxed in each other’s company, I told him, build up a good rapport and not overthink things.

   • 2022, Rylan Clark, Ten: The Decade That Changed My Future, London: Seven Dials, The Orion Publishing Group Ltd, →ISBN:

     Of course, things have changed so much even since the last series of Big Brother, and thankfully now telly makers have to take their role in safeguarding contestants incredibly fucking seriously. We all know about the fallout of reality TV shows and especially the suicides of two of the former Love Islanders.

   • 2022 July 18, Amelia Tait, “‘Alcohol is a hand grenade’: how reality TV went from boozy Big Brother to nosecco Love Island”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-18:

     But not a drop to drink … Love Islanders are limited to two tipples a day. […] Things have seemingly become stricter since: 2017 Love Islander Jess Shears told Closer magazine that contestants were given more booze on first dates, in order to “loosen up and be a bit more flirtatious”. But Barton-Hanson says that wasn’t the case by 2018.