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Katherine Heslop

Laura Whitmore jokingly invites Stranger Things villain into Love Island villa

It's the crossover no one was expecting, but which Laura Whitmore has now got in our heads: Stranger Things and Love Island.

The Love Island presenter jokingly invited actor Jamie Campbell Bower into the villa as a bombshell, in the guise as his Stranger Thing s character, uber villain Vecna.

Jamie plays the nemesis of Millie Bobby Brown's Eleven, who is intent on destroying the teen and the town her friends live in, thanks to their messy past.

The much anticipated final two episodes of Volume 4 of Stranger Things dropped on Friday, causing Netflix to crash as dedicated fans rushed to find out what happened to Eleven and the gang.

To promote the finale, Jamie shared three freaky images from the episodes on Instagram of Vecna in all his horrifying, decomposing glory.

Laura, 37, is clearly a fan of the supernatural series, and in reference to Vecna's terrifying corpse-like appearance, she commented on the post: "And the new bombshell entering the villa is… Vecna! Needs some factor 50 though."

The TV presenter's tongue-in-cheek comment racked up more than 550 likes and perhaps got fans wondering which lady would be unfortunate enough to turn Vecna's head.

Replying to Laura, one person wrote: "The question is, did he turn any heads?"

Another simply wrote: "Yes. 100%," while a third Instagram user wrote: "But has he got bants?"

A fourth quipped: "I'm too scared to watch."

Although it's safe to say Vecna's appearance in the house of love will only ever be an idea, Netflix's show is not afraid of breaking new ground, or records.

In just two weeks, the fourth season managed to rack up over half a billion hours played around the world, breaking three big streaming records.

Jamie Campbell Bower plays Vecna in Stranger Things (Getty Images)
Laura suggested the frightening figure should appear on Love Island (thewhitmore/Instagram)

The nostalgia-laden sci-fi series has long been one of Netflix's most popular shows, but viewing figures released in June, after the first part of season 4 was dropped in May, show that Stranger Things has only grown in popularity since it broke onto the scene in 2016 - getting more viewers in its first fortnight on the platform than previous seasons got in their first month.

Viewers collectively spent 621,800,000 watching the latest Stranger Things season, which will please Netflix executives who reportedly spent $30 million dollars on the production of each episode and called the record "astounding".

Vecna in Stranger Things would definitely be a change to the usual lads in the Love Island villa (Courtesy of Netflix)

It is the first TV series to enter their top three "most popular" list.

The latest season follows the show's growing cast of young actors as they delve ever deeper into the paranormal goings-on in the fictional rural town of Hawkins, Indiana.

Meanwhile, over in the Love Island villa, there is drama of a different sort expected as the girls settle into Casa Amor after the arrival of a new bunch of lads, with the established relationships tested.

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