Love Island slapped with another 432 Ofcom complaints over 'offensive language and rigged editing' - with calls for one star to be AXED from villa
The ITV reality show kicked off for its 12th season last month and has seen plenty of drama.
Over the last week, things have heated up further and the show has seen a wave of complaints from viewers to the broadcasting watchdog.
July 9's episode received 82 complaints, while July 11's saw 266, and July 13 was hit with 84.
According to The Sun, some watchers were not best pleased with Helena Ford's past social media posts on X and how she is still on the show.
The publication claims she used 'offensive language' in them, some about foreign people.
A source linked to the reality star told The Sun: 'These tweets are not reflective of the language Helena would use as a 30 year old woman and she would acknowledge she has done a lot of growing up since what she very naively posted over eight years ago.'
While other fans expressed how they felt footage of Shakira Khan had been 'edited' to make her appear 'mean'.
Clips have reportedly been cut from the show including when Meg Moore and Helena said Shakira was 'grafting' everyone.
Some fans were also not impressed with the footage from Movie Night where Shakira was shown talking negatively about Helena and Meg.
They claimed important context behind her reaction wasn't shown.
One watcher penned on X: 'No, I am actually fuming with production trying to paint Shakira and Toni as the means girls when we all know who the really mean girls are #LoveIslandUK #LoveIsland.'
According to The Sun, another wrote: 'Love Island is going to make out the mean girls are Shakira and Toni when it's been Meg and Helena.'
While someone else added: 'It's giving rigged if they don't show what Meg, Helena and Harry have actually been like and what they've been saying!'
There have also reportedly been allegations of bullying between Islanders, though they have not been named.
MailOnline has approached ITV for comment.
It comes as even more drama kicks off in the villa, with Wednesday's episode seeing Cacherel 'Cach' Mercer break down in tear following the chaotic recoupling which saw Toni recouple with Harrison.
Toni surprised the villa on Monday night when she picked to recouple with Harrison instead of Cach, despite telling him she was done with him.
Cach entered as a Casa Amor bombshell and swept Toni off her feet, while she was on and off with Harrison.
The shock turn of events left Cach in tears as he took a moment on the terrace to cry on Ty's shoulder - which left fans in tears.
'I can't believe I'm crying. I haven't cried in years,' Cach told Ty.
Ty told him: 'This is real though, it's you. It's better to let stuff like this out than bottle it up. It doesn't make you any less of a man, in fact more of a man.'
Love Island fans were left in tears as they took to X to share their heartbreak and urged to 'protect him at all costs'.
Some comments read: 'Cach is breaking my heart',
'Protect Cache at all costs my heart is breaking for him.'
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