It’s only one episode in and already Love Island 2019 has been thrown some shade.
The series, which started last night, has been slammed as ‘cruel’ by former Islander Marcel Somerville after two extra boys were thrown into the mix at the end of the episode.
The former Blazin Squad singer, who appeared in the show in 2017, criticised the decision to throw Curtis Pritchard and Tommy Fury into the villa at this stage of the series.
The five boys and five girls had already paired up when the two boy bombshells marched into the luxury with one aim - to steal girls and leave two other boys facing being dumped.
Marcel, 33, believes that producers are wrong to potentially axe two contestants so early.
He told The Sun : "Potentially two of them this year will be going home from the get-go, which is a cruel thing to do.
"When I was there we had two days in the villa before a new arrival.”
This follows his frustration over the first coupling, during which he said he was having “flashbacks” to his own, which saw him picked last.
He said: “This is mad!!!! #LoveIsland flash backs! Black guy, black girl and mixed race guy all left unpicked. Mad!!!”
During Marcel’s coupling, no girl stood forward for him, in the same way no one did for Sherif Lanre.
Liverpudlian firefighter Michael Griffiths was banished to the subs bench before being paired with Yewande Biala, who was also not picked.
Love Island continues tonight from 9pm on ITV2.
