IT was once the steamiest show of the year, with contestants getting intimate under the covers in front of millions on national TV.
Yet despite the sizzling temperatures and hot bodies, the current series of Love Island has been the most sexless to date — with condoms left gathering dust.
Abi Moores revealed that Love Island producers had no X-rated scene to air
Abi was voted off the show on Wednesday, pictured above with footballer Scott, and said ‘No one is doing anything’
Contestants in previous years have used code words to hint at how far they have gone in the bedroom, pictured above Megan and Wes in 2018
In her first interview since being voted off the show on Wednesday, Abi Moores told HOAR on Sunday that producers are not hiding X-rated scenes from viewers, rather there have been none for them to air.
Contestants have used code words relating to football and beauty in previous years to hint at how far they have gone in the bedroom when talking to fellow islanders.
Abi, 25, said: “No one is doing anything so there is no need for a sex analogy like I have had a baguette or whatever.”
Before each series the islanders must pass a sexually transmitted infection test and producers stash Love Island branded condoms in their luggage.
Asked if they are being used, she said: “No, I didn’t even know where they were. I got back and I found them in my bag.
“A lot of people are cuddling and you can hear the kissing, those kisses are very loud.
“I think everyone has been quite well-behaved and I don’t think anything has actually happened.
“We tried to get it out of the couples when they went to (the private love nest) The Hideaway but their lips are firmly sealed, no one will say a word.
“I definitely know that Whitney (Adebayo) and Lochan (Nowacki) will wait and nothing will happen in there, and the same with Molly (Marsh) and Zachariah (Noble). They will not do anything in the villa.”
In previous series, night-vision cameras have captured all the steamy action between the couples, whose beds are just inches apart.
But Abi added: “I haven’t noticed any activity late at night.”
It is not just in the villa where things have cooled down, either, as a Sun poll revealed that 79 per cent of viewers have switched off this year.
Meanwhile, 37 per cent of readers want the ITV2 dating show to be scrapped altogether.
Hampshire-born Abi joined the tenth series of the show as part of its Casa Amor episodes, where couples are split up and put to the ultimate test. Initially, she only had eyes for Sheffield gas engineer Mitchel Taylor, 26.
But their romance was short lived after Mitchel’s head was turned by blonde bombshell and championship dancer Ella Barnes, 23, leaving Abi out in the cold.
The former British Airways cabin crew member has revealed producers convinced her to get to know Welsh professional footballer Scott van-der-Sluis, 22, to spark another storyline.
She said: “I was being told Scott would be a good option.
“Both the producers and the islanders were like, ‘Who else do you like? Who else do you fancy?’”
Abi continued: “The producers were like your friends as well, so I would even call them one of the islanders.
“It was like, ‘You are on Love Island and Scott is into you so you may as well give him the time of day’.
“I was like, ‘OK I will speak to Scott, and he did put it on me and really did put the flirt on.”
But their romance hit the skids when Scott told Abi she was moving too fast and that he hadn’t “got to the stage of really liking” her yet. They later decided to remain friends.
Abi also lifted the lid on what goes on behind the scenes when the cameras stop rolling.
Despite the recouplings taking up just a small portion of an episode, they can take up to four hours to film.
Abi said: “We are always starving. I ate, like, a thousand cookies.
“I want the actual number of how many cookies we have eaten on the whole show.”
While the producers dictate when the islanders can talk to one another, they do not have any control over the unpredictable weather in Majorca.
Abi explained: “When it rains the boys and girls are kept separate because they want us outside (when we have conversations) as it looks better.
“To pass the time we did talent shows. Molly did a magic show, Jess (Harding) did her Cookie Monster dance or we would play little games like Heads Down, Thumbs Up.”
Abi also revealed that the girls were treated to manicures and pedicures in the villa, and that she had begged producers for a hair appointment.
She said: “I wanted my hair done so badly because my extensions were all falling out. It was a nightmare.
“I kept asking to see someone but Jess, Ella and I were the only ones with extensions so it was a bit unfair to have the lady come in.”
Abi added: “I eventually did get my hair done and someone came in one day because I had no hair left.”
Despite the beauty mishap, Abi still managed to impress during her time in the villa as she has already sealed a six-figure deal with a major fake tan brand.
It means she will follow in the footsteps of Love Island royalty Molly-Mae Hague, 24 — who features in our rich list in Fabulous magazine today — after she came runner-up on the show with boxer Tommy Fury, 24, in 2019.
‘Passengers would slip me their numbers’
Abi said: “Molly-Mae is so inspirational.
“She is so incredible in building an empire and that would be the dream to do so well like her or (ITVX presenter) Olivia Attwood, the big names that everyone has remembered.
“I definitely enjoyed my experience and media is definitely something I would be interested in going into.”
A life in the spotlight would mean stepping away from her jet-set lifestyle as cabin crew, which led her to spend Christmas in Dubai and look after A-listers in Business Class.
She said: “I absolutely loved every minute I worked there but the money isn’t the best so to move on and get my own place I would be looking to do something else.
“When the opportunity for Love Island came about I was like, ‘This is a sign’. Maybe I will go to university and get a degree? I don’t know what I will do.”
Chatting about her famous encounters when working, she said: “I had Stormzy on my flight just a few weeks before Love Island.
“He was so quiet, though. I think he was tired and he had a load of lads with him.”
Abi added: “Emma Thompson is the nicest woman and so lovely.
“I also had Rita Ora, who I met in the villa as well, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, you were on my flight’.”
Of any flirty encounters at 30,000ft, she said: “It is so funny because I started flying during Covid and everyone was wearing masks.
“People would get on a flight and you would be like, ‘Oh, seat 14 delta, he is so fit’. Then they would eat and when they took their masks off they would look completely different. Like, ‘No, I retract my statement’.”
Abi also shared the subtle way that wealthy Business Class men tried to make a move.
She added: “One of the smoothest ways is they will say, ‘Can I have a pen?’
“So you give them a pen to fill out a form or something but when they give it back they have folded their number into the pen hook.”
Asked if it ever worked, she added: “I never went ahead with it.”
Abi also revealed she found the unused Love Island branded condoms in her luggage once back from the villa
Emma and Terry romped in full view of islanders in 2016
