One Love Island champion is unhappy with the change, which has evolved from savage showdowns and shady one-liners to a more polished PR-safe version over the years.
Amber Gill has slammed ‘overly sensitive’ UK reality TV viewers.
Former Love Island winner Amber Rose Gill has hit out at the current state of UK reality TV, claiming it’s become too “soft” and over-policed by viewers who get offended over everything. In a fiery social media rant, the 2019 champ said the reason reality telly is “dead” is because people can’t say anything without backlash – calling out recent outrage over a Love Island contestant saying another girl was “too glamorous for a 9-5”.
Amber yelled, “You can’t say that! You’re too glamorous for a 9-5!” she said. “I just saw articles about a girl. Everyone must grasp me, “I need them to get some grips.”
She continued, “God forbid you to say anything offensive because they come f**ing media trained.” I can’t recall what I said, and trust me, I say it in private.
Amber has always been known for her sharp tongue and unfiltered opinions, and she has always clashed with islanders like Michael Griffiths and sparked heated debate on the show.
Amber is living proof that she isn’t just shouting into the void. After Michael Griffiths pied her off in Casa Amor, she famously argued with him after his backtracking was labeled “childish” and holding nothing back during her season. Every word was glued to the viewers’ ink. And Amber didn’t sugarcoat a thing on national television calling her a “dead ting” when Joanna Chimonides returned to the villa.
But while her straight-talking ways earned her backlash with some calling her a “bully” – the public still crowned her the winner. In fact, she was caught in the middle of one of the show’s biggest ever blow-ups, when bestie Anna Vakili erupted at Jordan Hames in scenes that producers later called one of the loudest in Love Island history. For Amber, those raw, messy moments were what made the show real and she reckons that kind of telly just wouldn’t happen today.
You want to know what’s going through my head, I say. If you believe that to be true, she continued, “I need everyone to get in the groove and just enjoy it for entertainment value.”
Amber’s remarks come as a result of a growing debate over how sanitized reality television are and how less experienced contestants are afraid to speak up for fear of being “cancelled.”
Source: Mirror
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