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i bet nothing happens and there will be no real relationships.

these people have all met before, so surely something wouldve happened before?

Apparently half the toxic trolloppe twosome has a 'history' with Best.Mind he refused to back her up when she was insisting to Fran Cosgrave that she wasn't promiscuous!!!!Shes made her living out of nothing other than her 'relevations' about her public private life!Why's she being so bl**dy high and mighty about it all?

AFTER days of hype, viewers at last got their first look at ITV’s £15 million reality television spectacular, Celebrity Love Island, which the network hopes will revive its ratings after a run of uninspiring viewing figures.

The show, set on an island resort off the coast of Fiji, attracted an audience of 5.3 million and an audience share of 24 per cent for its 90-minute launch episode which ran from 9pm. However, it was beaten by BBC1’s drama of veteran detectives, New Tricks, which pulled in 7.1 million viewers.

ITV is desperately in need of a ratings success to emulate last year’s I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!. The network has lost younger and more affluent viewers, both groups keenly sought by advertisers.

ITV insisted Celebrity Love Island had "got off to a great start" and had done "exceptionally well" among its target audience aged 16-34. The network also claimed a success for the digital TV spin-off on ITV2 which attracted a peak audience of 588,000.

However, Celebrity Love Island has a distance to climb before it can match the popularity of I’m a Celebrity, which at its peak drew 15.7 million viewers. The new show hopes to recreate some romantic interest of the kind that sprung up between model Jordan and singer Peter Andre which proved such a lure to I’m a Celebrity audiences.

The show repeats the I’m a Celebrity format. A team of 12 celebrities - all hovering somewhere between B- and C-list status - are cocooned on the idyllic 48-acre Bounty Island resort under the constant eye of cameras.

Viewers can pick couples from the six men and six women who then retire to the "love shack" - a kind of luxury chalet - to see if romance will flourish.

Various tests will be set for the contestants but they will fall short of the kind of insect immersion stunts that characterised I’m a Celebrity. Those taking part include Abi Titmuss, 29, former television presenter John Leslie’s ex-girlfriend, who has appeared on porn TV, and Rebecca Loos, the 27-year-old alleged to have had an affair with David Beckham while working as his personal assistant in Spain.

The men’s team boasts two former soap actors, a former England footballer and George Best’s son Calum, who hit the headlines earlier this year after being caught on CCTV outside a London nightclub enjoying intimate moments with Mick Jagger’s daughter, Elizabeth.

The first episode saw Hollyoaks actor Paul Danan being voted into the "love shack" along with the 23-year-old socialite Lady Isabella Hervey.

The programme runs for five weeks and has a cash prize of £100,000 for the last surviving couple, as well as the usual glut of promotional work on offer to the winners of reality shows.

A crunch test of its popularity will come a week on Friday when Celebrity Love Island is pitched head to head with the sixth series of Channel 4’s Big Brother, which is already being hyped by its makers as "the television event of the summer".

FERGUS SHEPPARD
Wednesday, 18th May 2005
The Scotsman

Whats a relevation then?

She should beware of biting the hand that feeds her

Paul and Abi!What a pair of arrogant ****wits!!!!Get them together and as far away from our TV sets ASAP!!!!!!

what a pathetic little whiner paul danan is, i felt really sorry for the posh burd

So did I.FFS all that 'babe' stuff.And WHAT signals was he reading???Man alive if the bloke was whacked over the head with her diamond studded handbag he'd still take it as a come on!T***ER!!!(To him not you,Hippo)

yeah, you wouldn't catch me sexually harrassing a woman, would you spikey?

Of course not!!!!
And of course you'd take the hint if you were told to jump off the boat wouldn't you??
omg!!!Did you see the titanic pose????PMSL!!!

shame i can't swim

Neither can I!!!!!

ROFL @ CLI aftersun and celebrity aid!!!!

Loved the cartoon Jim

Aw..come on Jayne and Lee....SWEEETTT

EVERY cloud has a silver lining, and the Kylie story has allowed the papers to quietly sideline their Love Island coverage.
Tonight Peter and Jordan will be watching each other

This will come as a relief, as the much-hyped ITV show is proving nearly as big a flop as the station’s recent Celebrity Wrestling disaster, which was ignominiously dropped after a couple of weeks.

“TURNED OFF,” declares the Mirror. “ONE MILLION viewers desert Love Island on its first night.”

All the tabloid columnists give the programme a well-deserved kicking, but the Sun gives the biggest kicking of the lot, courtesy of gusset – sorry, guest – pundit Jordan.

“Since becoming pregnant I like nothing better than settling down in front of the telly,” she reveals, as she gets comfy in her favourite armchair, with a packet of Hob-Nobs on the armrest and little Peter Andre balanced on her bump.

“Celebrity Love Island is complete dross,” she opines, describing it as “a boring show full of fame-hungry, no-mark celebrities.”

Hear, hear. But there’s more.

“None of the so-called celebs on the show are remotely interested in finding love – they are just trying to boost their profiles.”

And before you start getting clever, and pointing out that she and Peter were once drawn together by a shared desire to boost their profiles via reality TV, consider this: “When Pete and I went into the jungle, the attraction was there and we fell for each other... You can’t manufacture chemistry.”

Of course, viewers have the option of turning off, and many have already done so. But chez Jordan, there is a problem. Turn off the box and you’ve still got two fame-hungry no-marks trying to work out how to boost their profile.

In fact, that could be the way forward: a celebrity Royle Family, in which former reality stars grumble their way through Love Island from the comfort of their celebrity living-rooms.

Time to get the webcam up and running, Katie P. Anorak