Love Island fans insist returning Islander ‘did their research' as they expose ‘game plan'
Irish star Megan made her villa return this week in shock scenes, alongside fellow dumped Islander Blu.
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Megan was voted least favourite girl after dumping Tommy for Conor, before being axed.
But her return has seen her head straight for Conor to pick up where they left off.
However, Love Island viewers aren't convinced, with some saying that the brunette beauty has returned to the dating show with a game plan.
Taking to Reddit, one person speculated: 'Irish Megan really did her homework. Notice how when Yasmin first came in irish Megan threw the blame on her calling her 'boring and sloppy' and never held Harry or Dejon accountable.
'But now she's flipping the script, telling the girls 'Oh the boys were the problem' and 'It's not Shakira it's Harry.'
They continued: 'Since her return, Helena who's always laughing and scoffed 'I'm not threatened by Shakira.' is now crying….its no coincidence that both Helena and Megan are shifting the blame onto Harry instead of Shakira after irish meg came in because they would've jumped guns blazing on Shakira if they hadn't known what the public say about them.'
And the poster finished by saying: 'They're even openly acknowledging the 'divide' for the first time and Megan who was confidently arguing with 4+ girls during movie night is now shedding crocodile tears for people to sympathise with her…irish meg TRUST and believe that you will be on that spirit flight back to england i've had enough of them rigging this season and painting shakira and toni as the villains.'
The comment was liked by thousands of people in agreement, but not everyone agreed with the theory.
Some said it was a good thing that Megan was calling out the boys for their actions, while others fumed that the word 'game player' was being thrown about too easily.
Love Island fans praise Megan as she calls out Harry for his actions in brutal speech
On her villa return, Megan revealed the real reason she decided to come back.
She said: "I'm excited to go back in, I think I left quite abruptly and I'm going back in for some clarity.
"It was an easy decision to make.
"When you can't speak to people for a couple of weeks and have to watch them on telly every night, you want some answers."
Some Love Island fans ended up complaining to Ofcom about Megan and Blu's return to the villa.
"Producers are ****s, they bring Megan back now that Shakira + Conor are happy + now I've seen that they've put the clip of Shakira + Toni talking about meg + demon in the grafties?
"I hate them and ofcom will be hearing from me."
Someone else added: "And the voting was rigged - I'm complaining to ofcom too, sick of the lies."
A third penned: "@itv bringing back meg over alima is disgraceful. And I will be complaining to ofcom.
"Megan recieved the lowest amount of votes. Alimas was never voted out by the public but by somone stealing her man.
"S10 molly was kicked out the same way and eventually brought back."
A fourth then said: "Everyone needs to complain to ofcom after that episode!!!!!!!"
While a fifth added: "I'm actually gonna file an ofcom complaint cause how can they disregard our votes like that?
"Megan literally had the lowest votes for favourite girl FOR A REASON."
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