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Monday, July 10, 2006

Censoring the c-word

SEXING! Love Island, ITV1, 9.00pm

It's back, and it's lost the word "celebrity" from the title. Whether that's due to ITV's general banning of the c-word from all of their programme titles after the Celebrity Wrestling debacle, or whether that's because somebody saw the line-up and threatened to sue them under the Trades Descriptions Act, we're not entirely sure.

It wasn't exactly a ratings juggernaut in its first outing, but it did provide its fair share of watercooler moments. It's also responsible for foisting Paul fucking Danan back on the public at large, and it would do well to keep that to itself if it doesn't want to be punched in the teeth by everybody it encounters. So, everybody wants to know, who are the celebri... er, contestants this time? Well, this is not an exhaustive list but we believe we can expect to see Sophie Anderton, "Lady" Victoria Hervey, Bianca Gascoigne, Kelle Bryan from Eternal (oh Kelle, say it ain't so!), Bombhead from Hollyoaks (who appears to have lost a bit of weight) and Alicia Douvall. It makes last year's lot seem positively A-list, doesn't it?

ITV scored a victory over Big Brother with The X Factor: Battle Of The Stars at the beginning of the summer, and no doubt they'll be hoping to pull that off again, so we shall see. In the meantime, we can't stop thinking of that episode of The Simpsons that starts with the family watching a new Fox show called Promiscuous Idiots Island, and wishing that they'd gone with that title for this instead. But will it turn out to be secretly a peninsula? You'll have to tune if you want to find out.

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Poor Kelle.

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