LOVE Island plunged into chaos after the furious contestants refused to film following the show’s latest cruel twist.
Host Maya Jama broke the news that couples Jess Harding and Sammy Root and Leah Taylor and Mitchel Taylor would have to split and date two new bombshells.
Love Island’s Jess and Sammy have been forced to split and banned from recoupling
But in scenes not shown in last night’s episode, blonde beautician Jess was so upset, she refused to take part and had to be coaxed back on set by the ITV2 crew.
The shock turn of events was provoked by an Islander vote over compatibility.
A source said: “Jess and Sammy and Leah and Mitchel were all annoyed at losing the vote at the hands of their co-stars.
“It really ruffled some feathers — and it got worse when Jess found out she had to go on a date with the new boy.
“It wasn’t anything personal against him, but a producer had to console her while she sobbed and coax her to continue filming.
“Eventually, she carried on and it got smoothed over, but it was such a bombshell twist, it was unsurprising the Islanders were so annoyed.”
Jess and Leah had to date new lad Montel McKenzie, 25, while Sammy and Mitchel dated new girl Mal Nicol, 25.
Semi-pro footballer Montel has already branded the boys in the villa “sneaky”.
And HOAR revealed yesterday how Mal is the ex-girlfriend of 2022 bad boy Jay Younger.
Speaking last summer, Mal told how Jay split up with her shortly before Christmas 2021, following an intense six-month relationship.
She said: “It was traumatising. I was meant to be spending Christmas with his family.
“I don’t want to experience anything like that again. It was brutal.”
After Mal spoke out, HOAR revealed a second lass had been led on by Jay.
He promised a “serious future” to a blonde influencer Ems Button, who claimed he pledged to buy them a house with his show prize money.
