Love Island Archives - Empoword Journalism https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/tag/love-island/ Led by women. Uniting and empowering journalists across the globe. Fri, 06 Sep 2024 15:29:29 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 Love Island Winners Make History – Why It Matters https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/entertainment/love-island-winners-make-history-why-it-matters/ https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/entertainment/love-island-winners-make-history-why-it-matters/#respond Fri, 06 Sep 2024 15:25:43 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.co.uk/?p=61570 Love Island couple Michelle "Mimii" Ngulube and Joshua Oyinsan were crowned the winners on 29th July 2024.

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]]> https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/entertainment/love-island-winners-make-history-why-it-matters/feed/ 0 Love Is Blind: UK – Will It Work Across The Pond? https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/love-is-blind-uk-will-it-work-across-the-pond/ https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/love-is-blind-uk-will-it-work-across-the-pond/#respond Fri, 10 May 2024 21:17:57 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.co.uk/?p=57086 The announcement of a UK version of the smash-hit Netflix series Love Is Blind, coming in August 2024, is cause for both excitement and skepticism.

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]]> https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/love-is-blind-uk-will-it-work-across-the-pond/feed/ 0 Love Island Week One: Steamy Kisses, Awkward First Dates and a Load of Flirting https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/entertainment/love-island-week-one-steamy-kisses-awkward-first-dates-and-a-load-of-flirting/ https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/entertainment/love-island-week-one-steamy-kisses-awkward-first-dates-and-a-load-of-flirting/#respond Wed, 21 Jun 2023 12:28:51 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.co.uk/?p=41119 The opening monologue said it all. Rolling shots of cliff tops overlooking the Mediterranean, clear blue skies, and a brightly decorated villa. The summer of love has officially begun! After wrapping up the winter series in South Africa back in March, Love Island has packed up and moved to Mallorca for its tenth series. Here's all the action you may have missed from the first week.

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]]> https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/entertainment/love-island-week-one-steamy-kisses-awkward-first-dates-and-a-load-of-flirting/feed/ 0 Love Island: Still Our Type On Paper? https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/love-island-still-our-type-on-paper/ https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/love-island-still-our-type-on-paper/#respond Fri, 03 Feb 2023 19:03:49 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.co.uk/?p=36926 Gemma Nettle considers whether Love Island's winter edition will reach the sweltering success of its summer counterpart.

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]]> https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/love-island-still-our-type-on-paper/feed/ 0 Pretty Little Privilege: Is Gemma Owen The Right Person To Sign PLT Deal? https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/pretty-little-privilege-is-gemma-owen-the-right-person-to-sign-plt-deal/ https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/pretty-little-privilege-is-gemma-owen-the-right-person-to-sign-plt-deal/#respond Fri, 26 Aug 2022 11:20:50 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.co.uk/?p=29873 The latest Love Island stars snapping up new influencing opportunities is hardly surprising to see following yet another successful year of the hit ITV dating show. Something else that doesn't come as a shock, is fast fashion brand Pretty Little Thing coming under fire for appointing this years' runner-up, Gemma Owen, as their new brand ambassador.

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]]> https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/pretty-little-privilege-is-gemma-owen-the-right-person-to-sign-plt-deal/feed/ 0 Love Island: Critiquing Reality TV Snobbery https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/opinion/love-island-critiquing-reality-tv-snobbery/ https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/opinion/love-island-critiquing-reality-tv-snobbery/#comments Sat, 20 Aug 2022 10:01:56 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.co.uk/?p=29630 Chit-chatting about my latest writing endeavours, a male friend enquires about the pieces I’m working on at the moment. I take a deep breath before I answer him with those dreaded words: “Love Island!”.

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]]> https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/opinion/love-island-critiquing-reality-tv-snobbery/feed/ 1 Love Island 2022- is it time for a recoupling? https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/love-island-2022-is-it-time-for-a-recoupling/ https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/love-island-2022-is-it-time-for-a-recoupling/#respond Wed, 10 Aug 2022 21:37:51 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.co.uk/?p=29179 Over an eight-week long, hot summer, the nation watched with bated breath through terrace antics and the most dramatic Casa Amor recoupling in Love Island history in the hope that, at the end of it all, true love and romance would conquer all. I, like so many others, tuned in every night to enjoy this year’s series and I have to say, it did not disappoint.

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]]> https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/love-island-2022-is-it-time-for-a-recoupling/feed/ 0 Where Is The Love in ‘Love Island’ https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/opinion/where-is-the-love-in-love-island/ https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/opinion/where-is-the-love-in-love-island/#respond Mon, 14 Mar 2022 22:38:08 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.co.uk/?p=22705 Aymee Chingwara With summer fast approaching, viewers will soon be perched up on their sofas every evening at 9pm awaiting the latest episode of Love Island. For two months straight, fans of the show will be treated to watching young and sexy singles fawn over each other in a bid

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]]> https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/opinion/where-is-the-love-in-love-island/feed/ 0 Why The Backlash Against Molly-Mae Is An Issue Of Misogyny https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/opinion/why-the-backlash-against-molly-mae-is-an-issue-of-misogyny/ https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/opinion/why-the-backlash-against-molly-mae-is-an-issue-of-misogyny/#respond Sun, 16 Jan 2022 23:22:37 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.co.uk/?p=21708 Ella Gilbert Molly-Mae Hague, an influencer, previous Love Island contestant and current creative director of PrettyLittleThing,  sparked controversy last week over comments made in a podcast. Hague, 21, appeared on the Diary of a CEO podcast with host Steven Bartlett where she explained her mindset behind her success. Some of

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