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Katherine Heslop

Love Island fans convinced producers 'forced staged Dami and Luca apologies to Tasha'

Love Island fans are convinced that show bosses stepped in and ordered Dami and Luca to apologise to Tasha, as fans accused the pair of "bullying" her.

Tasha has been left upset by Luca and Dami's behaviour a number of times as they repeatedly made comments about her relationship with Andrew.

Then in tonight's episode both Dami and Luca pied the blonde beauty in the 'snog, marry, pie' challenge, with Dami claiming she gets away with things.

Tasha looked visibly upset as she received the final pie, with Andrew and Paige agreeing afterwards that both boys went too far.

Dami and Luca both pied Tasha in a challenge, with their remarks afterwards causing her to cry (ITV)

Sitting with Paige and Andrew, Tasha explained it wasn't the pies that bothered her as she was expecting them.

"It's the reasons after they gave, that was nasty," she said.

"When they are going deep in and personal attack on me, it's a completely different story," she said, comparing the situation to when she pied the fish monger.

Viewers swiftly took to Twitter, accusing Dami and Luca of "bullying" Tasha.

One person said: "What Luca and Dami are doing to Tasha is straight up bullying! -constantly pick on and at her -sniggering with each other about her -making her feel worthles."

Dami and Tasha embrace after he says he doesn't want her to feel like he's ganging up on her (mirror.co.uk)

Later on in the episode, Dami and Luca both apologised to Tasha, with the Brighton fishmonger admitting he took things too far and was "out of line", telling her he feels bad.

"I do actually genuinely feel bad right now for what I said and I'm sorry," Luca said.

Dami also spoke to Tasha, saying: "I do support you and Andrew and obviously we have our opinions about everything that happened.

"I have said to you I thought you always get away with everything so I just thought it would be funny to say 'you always get away with everything well you're not getting away with this pie'.

He went on: "I don't want it to be like I'm ganging up on you. I actually want us to be friends."

Tasha hugged both islanders after their apologies, and they both vowed to leave her and Andrew alone.

However, some viewers branded the apology fake, and claimed the boys were told to say sorry by producers.

Tasha cried after Luca and Dami's behaviour in the snog, marry, pie challenge (mirror.co.uk)

One person wrote: "Fully convinced Luca & Dami we’re told to apologise to Tasha by producers so they’d stop getting complaints cos those boys don’t have the emotional maturity for that."

Another said: "Producers defo told luca and dami to appologise to tasha. Looked so staged."

A third person penned: "Dami and Luca were 100% pulled by producers for bullying Tasha. I’ve whiplash from their turnaround. Too little too late though."

Luca admitted he was "out of line" in his behaviour towards Tasha in the most recent (mirror.co.uk)

A fourth Twitter user wrote: "The producers clearly stepping in and giving Luca and Dami some half hearted scripted apology to give to Tasha. Yes the producers needed to step in but im sorry, I see right through it and I'm not having it...."

A fifth person quipped: "Not Love Island producers forcing Luca and Dami to apologise to Tasha... fakest apology I’ve ever seen."

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