Love Island ‘s Marcel Somerville reckons the show used to be far more exciting when Islanders were shown getting a little more X-rated.
Series three star Marcel exclusively chatted to the Daily Star during a Facebook Live chat with showbiz reporter Carly Hacon.
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The Blazin Squad star said: “You’ve gotta think of it like this when you break it down the show has gone from being a show that was more for like late teens early adults to a lot of people watching the show.
“That’s why on my season there was so much smoking and everything was going on all of that has been cut from the show for the simple reason that they want it to spread to a wider audience.
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“So, there are kids who are in school like 13/14 watching the show and they don’t watch to encourage smoking or let them see explicit nudity so they’re tailoring it.”
He continued: “By all means, there are naked cast members on this season but you just aren’t seeing it because they don’t need to edit it in.
“Back in my day, it used to be more raunchy, I remember watching a season before my season and that season went off. There were people having sex in cupboards and stuff.
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“It’s definitely changed because you don’t see the X-rated stuff. I think my era was I’m not even just saying this but my season was probably the last season of that kind of Love Island.
“The season afterwards it kind of became a lot more PG… I think the only person who had a big following before the show was Jess Shears.
“Now, I think everyone going on the show, they all have something they’re going on the show to get because they obviously they see how much the show propels you.
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“A lot of them are musicians and are influencers, they’ve all got a minimum of 20k followers already and when I went on the show and had 2k people following me.”
Marcel also revealed that he thinks bombshell Adam Collard is a producer “plant”.
To which Marcel added: “He’s a plant, there is no doubt about it Adam is a plant. He’s been planted in there to rile up every single situation.”
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