Why Love Island is the best kept guilty secret on British television

Duthie, Lyndsay (2018) Why Love Island is the best kept guilty secret on British television. The Conversation.

Creators:
Duthie, Lyndsay
Description/Abstract:

As is so often the case these days, we didn’t have to wait for series four of Love Island to actually go to air for Fleet Street to start salivating about the prospects of spending the summer with 11 “unfathomably ripped young men and scantily clad young women” – as The Guardian rather coyly put it – tasked with doing little else other than to select their daily swimsuit and, over the course of eight weeks, choose their ideal life partner.

Article appeared in: The Conversation, Metro, 100 publications, appeared on SKY News.

Item Type:
Article
Official URL:
https://theconversation.com/why-love-island-is-the...
Date:
4 June 2018
Schools:
School of Film, Media & Performing Arts
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Depositing User:
Professor Lyndsay Duthie
Date Deposited:
25 Feb 2020 14:18
Last Modified:
25 Feb 2020 14:37
URI:
https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/5397

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