Former Love Island star Olivia Hawkins has revealed that Islanders change their own bedsheets on their time off, as she dished behind-the-scenes secrets of life in the villa.
OK!'s weekly Love Island columnist, who appeared on the winter series earlier this year, described the 'military operation' of the show and its contestants, with strict rules to ensure all of the drama was caught on camera.
This included set meal-times – making sure that boys and girls were separated – as well as filming certain shots multiple times, and pitching in with villa chores.
Speaking to OK! Olivia, 28, said: "The Islanders would change their own bedsheets on their time off.
"It was mainly when we were in Casa Amor. We'd have the afternoons off whilst the film crew got footage in the main villa, before they had a break and they came to film us.
"There is only one camera crew so they would be going between the two villas, so when they weren't there, we would change the sheets.
"We were a bit naughty when the camera crew wasn't around as we would try to shout over to the other Islanders in the main villa, but we got away with it."
Liv also revealed that Islanders who had been dumped from the villa often had to film their exit and saying goodbye to the others multiple times, so that producers could ensure they got the best shot.
She explained: "When you're dumped from the villa, some people would have to do it around four times.
"You'd have to you have to act sad like three or four times [the dumped Islanders and the remaining ones].
"So, you'd do it and then the camera crew would say 'can you do that again' so you have to wave and walk. But they need to get the right shots, so I kind of understand it."
Olivia also admitted that she sometimes got cabin fever in the villa, where Islanders' every move, including bedtime and mealtimes, were strictly policed by the show's producers.
"You'd want to just like walk out the front and just go for a walk," she told us. "Or just walk around the garden, but you can't always do that because you could be getting in the background of people.
"Sometimes a couple would be having a intense conversation, and you'd want to move – for example, to go to the toilet – so producers would ask you to sit back down for a second so that they could get the right shot.
"If we were ever told we needed to stay where we were, we knew something big was happening, whether it was a new arrival or one of the couple's were having an intense conversation."
Mealtimes were also a 'military operation' according to Liv, as boys and girls had to be strictly separated whenever the cameras were not on them.
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