An ex-Love Island star has spoken out about a traumatic day in the villa that involved a fan-favourite task - which apparently has a grim twist behind the scenes.
Shaughna Phillips, a contestant from Winter Love Island’s 2020 season, described the ‘vile’ day that left her balling crying from afternoon to evening.
The 26-year-old was interviewed on the 'Should I Delete That' podcast where she revealed a number of grim secrets from the show.
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One of the most bizarre things she revealed was that islanders were forced to wear skimpy outfits during the heart rate challenge - and they weren’t allowed to have a say whatsoever.
Shaughna says she cried all day and begged not to have to take part in the challenge, but her devastation fell on deaf ears as she was plunged out the door that evening to put on a show for the boys.
Speaking about that day, she said: “I cried from lunchtime to the minute I walked out.
"I said to them [the show’s producers], ‘I will go out naked in nipple tassels, as long as you give me trousers, tights, or thigh high boots. I will do whatever you want’.
"And I was the only girl that had none of that. I said to them, ‘I might just walk. I can’t do this’.”
She explained that she had begged producers not to force her into a skimpy outfit, but to no avail: “I was crying, I was going, ‘Please, you don’t understand. Please.’
"I was really struggling with swollen legs because [of] the different altitude over there [South Africa]. I was crying because I felt like rubbish, I was crying because I was embarrassed.”
Shaughna went on to talk about how the results are ‘fixed’ to rile up the islanders and to fit in with whatever the storyline at the time is.
“I think it was set up,” she said.
“In the competition it said mine went up for Callum, and obviously it would’ve been a greater storyline that mine went for Callum and Callum’s didn’t go [up] for me, but I don’t think mine went for him. I’m sure mine went for someone else.
"Even though I know, or I think it wasn’t true, the nation’s then watching me looking like a t**t. I just felt like a donut.”
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