THAT'S ALL FOLKS
That’s it for Love Island 2019 (until the reunion show a week on Sunday, obvs) and adios from the liveblog. Keep on grafting and don’t be #chaldish, #isleneverforgetyou!
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“Money Mae” is currently trending on Twitter in the UK, as fans imagine Molly-Mae’s devastation at not winning the £50k. How uncharitable - she was actually more excited about the prospect of being on This Morning.
Remember that theory from earlier in the night about the winning couple standing to the right of Caroline? Well, Amber and Greg stood to her left. Don’t believe everything you read, kids!
Every couple who has won Love Island has been standing on the right of Caroline #loveisland pic.twitter.com/xqxLtubAGt
— beth (@bethseager_) July 28, 2019
It’s over! Greg and Amber are leaving with £25k each and, the one thing we all need more than ever: LOVE
Greg steals the £50k, rips off the mask ... it’s been Michael here all along!!!
GREG AND AMBER WIN LOVE ISLAND 2019
The luck of the Irish!!
...but will he be on the winning or the losing team?
Whoever said that Tommy always sounds like he's doing a post-match interview all the time was spot on #loveIslandfinal
— bolu babalola (@BeeBabs) July 29, 2019
Below the line, Hawkeye63 suggests that ITV “should do one for people over, say, 45. Slice of fried tv gold”. Maybe they could get these lads to host?!
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Don’t remind us about your cooking, Tommy!!
Maura eating the cheese on toast Tommy made for her #loveisland
— holly (@hollyr_se) June 12, 2019
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“You’re the girl I’ve been looking for my entire life,” says Tommy, ending a 20-year game of hide and seek
As much as I love Amber and Greg, I’ve seen a more “instant connection” between my laptop and printer
“Before we reveal the result .. let’s play all the clips you’ve already seen 400 times tonight!”
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*whisper it*
India is the equivalent of contributing nothing to the group project & still getting an A #loveIsland
— GHANA'S FINEST (@Ghanasfinestx) July 29, 2019
Nice to hear a mention of sweet, quirky, kimono-wearing Chris - Russell Brand and Nick Grimshaw’s love child, surely destined to appear on Celebrity Juice once every 6 months and eventually date the Flack #isleneverforgetyou
Below the line, DevonLoch1 suggests that ITV “should change the format so one could vote for individuals instead of couples. Curtis, Molly-Mae and India are dragging down their respective partners”. So Devon, let me get this right, you want to do a dating show ... without the dating?! Blasphemy.
OVIE AND INDIA ARE THIRD
...and Ovie’s sure to have a dazzlingly bright future. And, er, India too, obvs.
Me thinking of how we can get Ovie a TV show, various modelling campaigns, a podcast, a Nike Sponsorship, a scheme with Mayor of London to encourage more kids to play basketball....
— manlikemike.com (@_manlikemike) July 14, 2019
We need our brother to enjoy and blow post Love Island pic.twitter.com/IlpeBYqpHS
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CURTIS AND MAURA HAVE COME FOURTH
“It’s been highs, lows, lotta emotion” says Curtis, who could be talking about LITERALLY ANYTHING
While we wait, let’s pour one out for Anton #isleneverforgetyou
THE VOTE HAS CLOSED
...and Caroline has said “dead ting”, words which will hopefully never, ever leave her mouth again
...and Marvin #isleneverforgetyou
The Islanders saying goodbye to Marvin like:
— Mollie Goodfellow (@hansmollman) July 12, 2019
“Sorry to see you go Martin.”
“It’s actually Marvin.”
“Right, Marcel.”
Nice to see a mention of Joe in this recap, who - if this pic is anything to go by - now lives at a Premier Inn
Hmmmmm.... what to think?
Molly Mae just gave a whole speech without saying one thing she liked about Tommy. Wise up!!! #loveisland
— Amelia Tait (@ameliargh) July 29, 2019
“The island’s amazing, India’s amazing,” says Ovie, either commenting on the final OR leaving a TripAdvisor review about his last holiday
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Greg wrote a poem (half) rhyming paddy with radgie! His mum bought Amber a shamrock! Get that £50,000 out NOW.
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Flack told us to get our tissues ready - but she didn’t warn us that we’d need them for our collective projectile vomit at Curtis’ speech
Time for a quick #isleneverforgetyou part III - who could forget the moment when Michael finally got his comeuppance and lost both Joanna AND Amber. This series has seen a lot of awful behaviour from the boys - in particular, Michael, Danny (AKA The Travel Agent, such was his ability to get girls dumped from the island), and Jordan, who pied Amber, Yewande and Anna respectively.
But none were arguably as bad as old Mike, who was so obsessed with calling other people immature that he failed to realise that he was in fact the most juvenile of them all. Frankly #chaldish
Michael's plane has arrived #loveisland pic.twitter.com/WAFLsbz5QB
— Olivia (@Liv_wyspianski) July 21, 2019
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Ad break! Time to plug the album one final time. It doesn’t even seem that bad. Did I mention I ordered 6 water bottles?
EVERYTHING suits Ovie. He could’ve come out dressed as a Teletubbies character and we’d still have been getting Tweets like this
Ovie in formal wear? #LoveIslandFinal pic.twitter.com/ldBWyN5GmK
— Ade Onibada (@SincerelyAde) July 29, 2019
Tommy’s just announced that he felt like the Prime Minister in his ball outfit. If only he knew who that was...
Let’s see what some celebrity Tweeters think! Mr Johnny Vegas, over to you ... wait, what do you mean you hate it?!
I’ve woken to @BBCNews discussing the importance of post #LoveIsIand contestant pr/career advice. I’m older in the tooth and have never had abs worth a factor 50 rub but seriously, we’re in a dire political tailspin. Do you consider this news?
— Johnny Vegas (@JohnnyVegasReal) July 29, 2019
Moody old bloke
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Eight minutes in and Maura’s just said her catchphrase. And the official #fannyfluttersvajazzle is in a Primark near you in 5, 4, 3...
The Islanders are off to a summer ball. If only there was a dancer in the villa.
No way did Callum just recreate his love island dance #lovelsland pic.twitter.com/PCvWKlXGUg
— Morgan😛 (@morganseditss) July 18, 2019
The Flack’s just reminded us that 36 islanders have been through the villa this year. Do you even know 36 people?! I’m not sure I do. Feels like a great time for an #isleneverforgetyou part III and justice for Sherif Lanre, who was booted out of the villa for accidentally booting Molly-Mae, and then never spoken of again. He’s been the subject of a death hoax, though we’ve not been able to confirm whether he started it himself.
THE SHOW HAS BEGUN
The Flack is back! Look at her go!
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Below the line, Marylynn says she’s rooting for ‘Murtis’, comparing them to “a 70s sitcom couple”. Marylynn, while I admire your love of Murtis and that beautiful description, didn’t you see how Maura’s mum was looking at him last night? She did NOT approve, and was far more interested in Ovie (though, really, who isn’t?!)
Maura’s mum asking why she’d decided to couple up with Curtis #loveisland pic.twitter.com/9sF4ohr3KW
— Rishma Dosani (@Rishma_Dosani) July 28, 2019
Time for #isleneverforgetyou part 2: remember when Tom decided to find out if Maura was “all mouth”? Feels like a while ago, doesn’t it? And if you want to feel REALLY old, this is what Tom looks like now:
Below the line, benzedrine has commented that “Molly Mae... owns a toy elephant? That is literally all I know about her after seven weeks of whatever”. To which I say, please have some respect - the elephant has a name (Ellie Belly)!
Conspiracy theory alert! @bethseager_ on Twitter has suggested that the couple to the right of Caroline Flack will be the winners, based on the past four series. Has she cracked the code? Or, like so many of us, does Beth just have a bit too much time on her hands?
Every couple who has won Love Island has been standing on the right of Caroline #loveisland pic.twitter.com/xqxLtubAGt
— beth (@bethseager_) July 28, 2019
The beautifully-named Baron Von Dominic IV very reasonably asks below who the favourites are. Baron (Dominic? Your royal highness?) - at the minute most of the people in the know (read: random people on Twitter) are backing Tommy and Molly-Mae OR Greg and Amber. T &M are the day-one favourites, but Greg and Amber are very well-liked. Does this answer your question? No? Sorry.
I’ll be dripfeeding you some of the best, most bonkers moments from the series throughout the night, in a series of recaps which I’ve very snappily titled *drum roll please* #isleneverforgetyou. Here goes ….
#isleneverforgetyou part 1: when Curtis told Amy that he didn’t want to cuddle because he’d rather make coffee for the entire villa. I mean, at least pretend you’ve got cramp or something. Animal!
Amy: I want to cuddle in bed
— F.b (@f98_____) July 5, 2019
Curtis: no can do I got a coffee shift early morning #loveisland pic.twitter.com/lWOlJZoHNo
Amy had the last laugh with her epic leaving speech, though - she’s since been on Loose Women twice! How long before she’s a permanent panellist? Watch yer back, Coleen Nolan...
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WELCOME TO THE LOVE ISLAND FINALE LIVEBLOG!
Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s Love Island finale liveblog! After two months (!) of gross-out trials, girl-coding and Greg (yeah, we know, he’s only been in there two weeks, but no one else’s name starts with a G, does it?!), Love Island 2019 finally comes to an end tonight. We know, we know, what on earth are we going to do without it? But, in the immortal, contractually obligated words of, well everybody in the villa, it is what it is!
The show starts in an hour, but I’ll be here with all the build-up, all the theories and some recaps before we all get to see Caroline Flack call the delivery driver “babe” in that awful takeaway ad one final time. So don’t let your head get turned, and keep your eyes on the liveblog! I’ll be going BTL from time to time to check your comments, or find me on Twitter @hannahjdavies.
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