Love Island series 3 favourite Olivia Attwood has lifted the lid on some behind-the-scenes goings-on.
For OK! magazine, the reality TV personality revealed that shooting those heart-pounding recoupling sequences can extend way past the Islanders' preferred bedtime.
"Some of the dumpings can take such a long time. We did some recouplings that went on until three or four in the morning," she recalled.
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"We wouldn't know the time but the producers would be telling us we had to go to bed because it was the early hours of the morning.
"They're awful, they're worse in real life. On TV, they fill the silences with music but it is so deadly silent, all you can hear is the crackling of the fire," continued Attwood, who's now engaged to footballer Bradley Dack.
"The villa is in the middle of nowhere so when you're stood there waiting, you can literally hear a pin drop. It's so intense."
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Meanwhile, stars of her series were allowed to stand outside the villa's entrance for a sneaky cigarette.
Attwood went on to explain: "Before you go into the villa, you disclose whether or not you are a smoker and tell them how many cigarettes you would typically smoke in a day.
"You then have to go to the Beach Hut and say you want to smoke and a producer will take you literally outside the front door of the villa and you stand there and have a cigarette.
"In our series, you could literally ask for the packet of cigarettes and just smoke whenever we wanted."
Love Island airs on ITV2, and is available via catch up on ITV Hub, with episodes available the following morning for BritBox subscribers.
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