Winter Love Island star Ellie Spence has made some explosive claims about ITV "making up" storylines for her season as the real-life scenes were too dramatic to air.
The reality TV star took part in this year's winter series of the ITV2 dating show in South Africa, but in a TikTok post she has slammed the series as "boring" and accused producers of "creating false storylines" because she claims they couldn't show what was really going on.
In a fan Q and A, Ellie said of her experience: "Can I just say that season was so s***. Thank God that season's been cancelled."
She told how on the first day, one of the male contestants had started to pick apart her appearance while she was dressed in just a bikini and said another female contestant had wound up the situation. Ellie didn't name either of them.
She added: "It was a rough ride, I cried for weeks and weeks and weeks. I was in there three weeks, I would say two and a half of them I cried every single day."
But the TV star claims when she was finally dumped from the villa, things got even worse.
She said: "I leave, I get home, none of it's been aired, none of the drama's been aired. I'm like what's going on, I feel like I'm in The Twilight Zone.
"The season's so boring, I watched one episode, I can barely keep my eyes open."
Ellie claimed: "The drama when we were in there was nuts, people couldn't handle it because it was too much. Now obviously I know Ofcom complaints, they wouldn't have been able to air it.
"However, that doesn't mean you should create false storylines with bits of editing just because you can't air what's going on in there."
Although Ellie didn't share details on what the real drama had involved or which scenes she felt were fabricated, she made her anger at show bosses clear.
She said: "I went through all of this drama, I deserve compensation because it was f***ing hell."
Love Island has tightened up its welfare protocols in recent years, but Ellie did not seem impressed by the support she received after the show and accused the welfare team of "being in cahoots" with producers.
She also alleged that when she had shared some of what happened online, the other contestants had given ITV interviews where they spoke out against her.
"There was a lot going on behind the scenes with ITV, with other contestants, it was honestly one of the hardest times of my life," she claimed.
Ellie told her fans: "I got over it because when someone's doing that it says so much more about you than it does about me."
She added: "Just think twice about reality TV hunnis 'cause it ain't reality."
A source told OK!: "We do not recognise this version of events and are disappointed to hear this having been in contact in recent months as part of our duty of care outreach and to discuss another TV project."
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