Love Island 2018: 60,000 people apply for a place in just 12 hours
There's no doubt about it, 2017's most talked about TV show,Love Island , will definitely be back this year. We're not exactly shocked - it was a huge hit! And the new series hasn't been short of potential singles, as 60,000 people fought for a place on the show in the first 12 hours after applications opened on 30 December.
âThe showâs success last year was unprecedented. Bosses are already working hard to ensure the next series lives up to expectations,â a show source told The Sun. âThey will do their best to sign up ideal islanders from the tens of thousands of wannabes.â
Applications to take part in the show are open until 30 April. All you have to do is send in two photos - a headshot and full length picture, as well as a video explaining why you'd make the perfect contestant.
We can't wait for Love Island to be back and we have so many questions. Will the location still be the same? Will Caroline Flack return as host? Will Iain Sterling return as voiceover? And more importantly, will our Love Island water bottles still be intact?
The last series was a total rollercoaster and one of the biggest conversation topics since Brexit. It was pretty epic for ITV2 as well, as they had record ratings, making it ITV2âs most successful format amongst 16-34s.
The show attracted over 2.044 million viewers, with a further 871,000 viewers watching it back within a window of 1-7 days via their TV set. A further 897,000 watched on line, bringing the combined total audience across platforms to 3.8 million viewers.
As you'd expect, it's the younger audiences driving the ratings.
The series, which sees singletons searching for love in a sunshine paradise, generated numerous watercooler moments, with the exploits of couples including Kem and Amber, Camilla and Jamie and Olivia and Chris keeping viewers gripped throughout the summer.
Grafting
The word that appears in at least 34%* of island conversations has had an unlikely rise to fame. Previously reserved for doctors consultancy rooms and Yorkshire grandads, âto graftâ has moved on from medical procedures and toiling in fields to mean paying the object of your affections a compliment, usually on their breast or abdominals, or fetching them a coffee, all the name of trying to win them over in the hope of getting to âstick it onâ ** later. To not graft is to sit back and what for the grafter to come to you, thus comes about the complicated relationship between grafter and grafteeâŚlost yet? Us too.
*statistic totally made up
** see below
Muggy
Not a thing to do with that particular type of temperatureââfelt only by your mum âisnât it muggy today?â, in LIL (Love Island Lexicon) muggy refers to someone taking you for a fool, basically they're being muggy. If a guy says he's with you when he's really cracking on to someone else, you're being mugged off and no one wants to be mug! Get it?
Extra
Youâd be forgiven for thinking they just forgot to finish their sentence, distracted by a passing quadricep in skinny jeans or their own reflection in the mirrored sunglasses of the person opposite them but no, they have no need of an adjective. Take âwhy you being extraâ, extra what? Annoying? Myopic? Asinine? Well in some ways extra is both all of these and none of these. Itâs whatever you want it to be. Extra needs not to be quantified, you neednât be extra at anything, being extra is enough in itselfâŚ..jk, extra really means what used to be called over the top.
Getting to know you
This literally encompasses all human interaction any of them have with each other. A two minute debate on the merits of scrambled versus poached eggs across the kitchen in the morning? We really got to know each other. The revelation that you both like protein shakes (course you effing do)?. Youâre getting to know each other like never before. A surreptitious half-way hand job under the duvet? You guessed itâŚ.
Melt
To be a melt/melty is a largely indefinable state of being with the closest translation available that of wimpishness. A somewhat affectionate insult itâs often used for an overly soppy man (i.e anyone who doesnât try to âstick it onâ in the first five minutes of meeting) but can also be used as a generic way of pouring scorn on any kind of idiotic behaviour.
Pied off
Can you be offed by a pie? Try it with other foodstuff: chickened off, courgettied off, sausage rolled off (tbh that last one does kind of have a ring to it), doesnât work does it?
Meaning to get shot down/have the piss taken out of you/ have the plighting of your troth ignored, use it when muggy simply will not suffice.
Salty
If the evolution of language parallels the evolution of the humans using it then âsaltyâ is perhaps the most interesting example of linguistic flux on Love Island. Used to mean everything from sexy or attractive to aggressive and bitchy, weâre pretty sure even they donât really know what it definitely means.
Stick it on her/him
Now in the interests of equality weâve added a him to this but there has of yet been no record of female to male usage. You may have misheard this saying as âstick it in herâ and that would probably make more sense for it alludes to the succession of early courtship rituals. I.e putting the moves on for a snog and a grope.
Crack on
Weâve all been dumped in a variety of linguistic ways, âItâs not you itâs me, I need space, Iâve got three kids and a wifeâŚâ but have you ever been told theyâre going to âcrack onâ. On Love Island if your beloved utters those words you can expect to see them cleaning the tonsils of the latest arrival before youâve had time to crack open a conciliatory mini-can of beer.
The ick
In terms of language contribution it is probably the 'ick that will have the most impact. For too long we have been struggling with that universally felt, but sadly unlexicalised, feeling of uggghhh that you suddenly get a couple of dates in. It's neither the oh-my-god I can't believe I did that morning after the night before feeling when you open your eyes and see the result of last night's seven VLS's dribbling into your pillow nor is it the gradual fizzling of something you just don't think is working out. Ick is a more urgent than that. Ick jumps out on you and suddenly the thought of any intimacy at all with the ickee makes you feel like you'd rather tear off your own skin.
Snakey
Fun fact, say snakey out loud right now and you'll sound like a Geordie saying sneaky! Oh and you'll also have cracked it's meaning.
Blazinâ
Only joking Marcel, NO ONE SAYS IT APART FROM YOU.
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