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Part Two: The Bastards of Reality Television

Behind the Bastards

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Love Island, a Constructed Reality v Show

Love island thrusts a collection of 20 somethings into close quarters in a maorcan via villa for about eight weeks. The contestants are given the task of pairing up, going on staged dates and strutting around in beech ware. Every week, the public vote on which couples they want to boot off while opportunities to recouple also arise. It's probably the first thing where the reality v show ad there must have been like, a found footed movie or something about a reality show that gets haunted by a ghost that makes everyone kill themselves. Right? Thats ut.

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