Love Island’s Shaughna Phillips slams show’s heartrate challenge as ‘the most vile thing’
Shaughna Phillips has slammed the popular heartrate challenge in Love Island, calling it ‘the most vile thing’ and claiming it is fixed.
The former Love Islander, 26, took part in the winter series of the show in 2020 and has got candid about her experience on the show, comparing it to going ‘to war’.
She took aim at one of the challenges, whereby Islanders have to dance for each other other while wearing heart monitors, to see who makes who’s heartrate increase the most.
‘Vile’: Shaughna Phillips has slammed the popular heartrate challenge in Love Island, calling it ‘the most vile thing’ and claiming it is fixed
Shaughna revealed that the sexy outfits that the contestants have to wear are chosen by the producers, and Islanders have no say.
She blasted the challenge as ‘the most vile thing ever’ and said she cried all day before it after learning about the skimpy outfit she had to wear.
Speaking on the Should I Delete That podcast, Shaughna confessed: ‘I cried from lunchtime to the minute I walked out [to dance].
‘I said to them [show producers], “I will go out naked in nipple tassels, as long as you give me trousers, tights, or thigh high boots. I will do whatever you want”.
Challenging: The former Love Islander, 26, took part in the winter series of the show in 2020 and has got candid about her experience on the show, comparing it to going ‘to war’
‘And I was the only girl that had none of that. I said to them, “I might just walk. I can’t do this”.’
The reality star described the process as ‘so mean’ and detailed how she begged the bosses to let her switch outfits.
She said: ‘I was crying, I was going, “Please, you don’t understand. Please.”
‘I was really struggling with swollen legs because [of] the different altitude over there [South Africa]. I was crying because I felt like rubbish, I was crying because I was embarrassed.’
On blast: She took aim at one of the challenges, whereby Islanders have to dance for each other other while wearing heart monitors, to see who makes who’s heartrate increase the most
Shaughna added that she believes the results of the challenge are ‘set up’ anyway, to suit the storylines in the villa.
She had found herself ditched by her partner Callum Jones for model Molly Smith in Casa Amour.
She explained: ‘I think it was set up. In the competition it said mine went up for Callum, and obviously it would’ve been a greater storyline that mine went for Callum and Callum’s didn’t go [up] for me, but I don’t think mine went for him. I’m sure mine went for someone else.
‘Even though I know, or I think it wasn’t true, the nation’s then watching me looking like a t**t. I just felt like a donut.’
Upset: She blasted the challenge as ‘the most vile thing ever’ and said she cried all day before it after learning about the skimpy outfit she had to wear
She also described being on the show as ‘work’ and nothing like the relaxing five star holiday it appears.
She said: ‘You’re running on four or five hours sleep, if that. There’s scenes of me with a wine glass with steam coming out of it, because there’s tea in it. That’s me just trying to stay awake.’
The former Islander also revealed a unique quirk about the show’s slow-motion dancing scenes.
Shaughna explained that either no music is played leaving the Islanders dancing to silence – or there’s a random song playing that is edited over for viewers at home.
Fix! Shaughna added that she believes the results of the challenge are ‘set up’ anyway, to suit the storylines in the villa
She said: ‘There’s no music playing for the slow-mos. All you can hear is our feet hitting the floor.
‘It’s the most awkward time. Or they’ll play music but it’s like… you can’t sing [along to] it because they’ll put different music over it [in the edit], so we literally had this trick where we would put ice in our mouths… to stop us from singing.”
Lifting the lid on the recoupling speeches, she says they take “hours” and that contestants go through what they’re going to say with a producer beforehand.
She added: ‘You don’t normally have to re-do… if it’s something very dramatic, then obviously they can’t really redo that.
‘But when you’re doing, like, the “I would like to couple up with this person because…” you do that in three sections.
‘So you say that, and then you have a big pause, then you say the next bit, pause.’
Shaughna also got candid about ‘nearly fainting’ before entering the villa due to her extreme gym routine combined with eating so little.
She described getting ready to go into the villa as like ‘preparing for war’, saying: ‘I would literally go to the gym and nearly faint, so I had to start to eating more just to get to that point, so I was in a healthier situation when Love Island came about, but obviously when it did happen, it was then like all systems go.
‘I was going to the gym maybe five or six times a week. But now I’m in a position where when I go to the gym, I try to look at it as a treat for myself, like this is your time, just go and enjoy it, whereas back then it was like do or die.’
Storyline: She had found herself ditched by her partner Callum Jones for model Molly Smith in Casa Amour
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