After quite a dry winter season (who even won that series again?), Love Island is well and truly back to its best this summer.
And the hit ITV2 reality show did what it does best on Friday night’s episode, with an epic twist that’s likely to go down as one of the greatest moments in Love Island history.
Love Island: Friday twist revealed
Having brought back Kady McDermott from season two as a hot new bombshell, the 27-year-old was then tasked with coupling up with a boy. She chose Zachariah Noble, which left Molly Marsh single – before she was immediately dumped from the villa.
All I can say – thank God for that. Molly was by far one of the most irritating Islanders the show has ever produced. Molly was quite a central figure to this season of Love Island, with many of the incoming islanders choosing her as their ‘type’ on paper.
However, her demeanour towards the other Islanders rubbed viewers, myself included, totally up the wrong way.
Molly dumped from the Love Island villa
While Mitch Taylor had claimed his ‘unwavering’ support towards Molly, the way she snuck off to bend Zach’s ear left a sour taste.
Yes, it’s Love Island, and it’s about finding the strongest connection – but Molly behaved like she was the only girl that any of the Islanders would be interested in. It spoke volumes when dumped Islander Ruchee Gurung said: “It’s Love Island, not Molly Island.”
While I’m sure she’s a lovely girl in real life, Molly was the victim of having too much airtime, where she unfortunately came across as quite insincere.
Characters like Molly happen when a television’s format becomes too formulaic. Molly seemed almost too familiar with how Love Island worked. She seemed to be trying too hard to be this year’s ‘break out’ star. She tried one-liners and seemed to orchestrate some of the show’
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