Love Island series one winner Jessica Hayes dishes the dirt about the show’s “dress rehearsals” before the main show airs.
This year’s series of ITV2’s Love Island is already bringing the drama with its hilarious yet steamy challenges.
Jessica, 29, who appeared and won the reality TV show in 2015, revealed how she was apart of a small group of young singletons to test out every element of the show in an unaired test run
She confessed that before each season, a group of newbies, who are the main villa rejects, are flown out to Majorca to spend time in the villa.
Leaving nothing to chance, it allows for producers to test out drinking games and a variety of camera angles to see how the main show will look.
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Love Island guinea pig Jessica revealed: “It’s exactly the same as the main show. We’re recorded 24/7 because the behind-the-scenes people need to practise the filming and editing.
“The producers pulled me out of the dry run by pretending they were doing a dumping,” Jess explains.
“They then told me that I was too big of a character to not do the main show.”
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“I was so excited – it was the biggest compliment ever! I got taken straight into lockdown, but they let me ring my mum from my balcony to tell her I wouldn’t be home for up to six weeks.
“I’d only packed for one week but ended up staying out in Spain for eight.
“I wasn’t allowed to tell the other islanders that I’d done the dry run either, so they were confused about why I was always asking to borrow their clothes. I got quite upset about it.”
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Like Jess, series three’s Tyne-Lexy Clarson, 25, also appeared in the show’s dry run and divulged all the details from her experience.
She confessed to OK!: “During the dry run, we slept in the villa for three nights and all got to know each other.
When I went onto the actual show, I was already familiar with the entire layout of the place.”
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