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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jacob Stolworthy

Love Island - what happened: New Jack and Laura dumped from ITV2 villa week before live finale

It's crunch time for the Love Island contestants as producers continue to throw everything they possibly can at the couples to see who has the staying power ahead of next week's live final.

First was the lie detector tests which almost drove a wedge in between the nation's favourite, Jack and Dani, as well as a new game entirely in which the islanders were forced to guess what the general public thought of them which led to some pretty savage results. Tonight's episode saw put the contestants' parental skills put to the test as producers delivered fake babies to each couple with... erm... unique results.

New Jack and Laura ended up winning bu the British public quickly cut their celebrations short by dumping them from the villa just one week before the final episode.

Ther other two couples in the bottom three were Wes/Megan and Josh/Kaz meaning the remaining three Jack/Dani, Laura/Paul and Alex/Alexandra are surely in line to win the £50,000 cash prize next week.

Re-live all the action as it happened below.

Live Updates

15:04
Hello and welcome to - you guessed it - Wednesday's edition of the Love Island live blog!
15:31
In case you were worried, Jack and Dani are fine again - but we can all agree, they're averaging about one argument per month which is pretty good going.
 
15:59
  
Not that they needed to argue over the lie detector test - it's basically been proven to be a load of old cobblers.
 

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16:57
...Oh yeah, for those holding out for that Dany Dyer appearance? It doesn't look like it's happening
 

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17:25
  
It's preview time! If you have a headache, best turn the sound down.
 
17:25
Love Island will be over this time next week - but, more importantly, the Love Island live blog will be over this time next week.
 
Which will you be more sad about?
17:54
Back to next week's final - are you prepping a viewing party? Here are some tips (thank us later).
 

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18:25
If you've just joined us, hello! There's a corker of an episode in store for you tonight
18:52
With a few hours to go, re-live this classic moment from, er, last night.
 
19:23
Catch up on everything Love Island here:
 

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19:54
Just a few hours until the baby antics rock the villa.
20:21
Get yourselves to this.
 
20:47
Just ten mins to go, people.
21:01
And we're off with an intro that no longer makes us jealous because it is double the temperature in the UK than it is there
21:02
Okay, so this baby task looks terrifying
21:03
Errrr ARCTIC MONKEYS IN LOVE ISLAND alert
21:03
(it's a cover of "Baby I'm Yours" for all you Spotify users)
21:05
Dani, these baby dolls are not cute, they are scary and must be avoided at all costs
21:06
Okay, naming these things... is kind of... weird?
21:07
Kaz and Josh's 'baby' is well dressed to be fair

Love Island continues nightly at 9pm on ITV2. The final will air next Monday (30 July)

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