Love Island 2021: Viewers brand Horny Devil challenge 'disgusting'

 ratings were down by 1million on Tuesday night’s second episode – after 3.3million tuned into watch Monday’s launch. 

Viewing figures showed the episode was watched by 2.3m viewers, with 1.2m of these viewers 16-34s. Including ITV Hub viewing the episode was watched by 2.7m viewers. It is typical for viewership to fall after an opening episode. 

News of the viewership comes after fans were left unimpressed by the Horny Devil challenge, with some fans even branding the task ‚disgusting‘. 

On Monday’s launch the show had a strong peak audience of 3.3m viewers across all devices. The average TV audience was the biggest digital channel audience of the year across any channel, and on par with the last series launch.

The audience was up by 33k viewers on the second episode of the last series 

The fall in viewers comes after fans watched the singletons, who were clad in red devil costumes, lock lips for more than 30 seconds and make X-rated confessions- just hours after arriving in the villa. 

Viewers took to in the droves with many describing the challenge as ‚boring‘ and ‚creepy‘ after having to watch the scenes unfold.  

The challenge saw the islanders divided into two teams, girls versus boys, with each contestant having to read out a statement from a fork and then confer among their team who it is. 

Confessions included: ‚This girl once got a sex toy stuck inside her‘, with Jake heading over to kiss Liberty, before it was revealed to be Chloe. 

Following the kiss, Jake said in the Beach Hut: ‚She don’t like the tongues I don’t think‘.  

Brad then read out another X-rated statement: ‚This girl loves to start her day by sending a tit pic‘, and decided to pick Faye to kiss, who admitted it was her. 

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‚I mean if you’re in a relationship, you’ve got to start the day somehow, right?‘, Faye said.  

Aaron then kissed Sharon after guessing correctly she had threesome three times. 

For the boys confessions, the girls correctly guessed Brad’s nan had once walked into him having sex and that Jake has a ‚massive foot fetish‘.  

Viewers took to Twitter following the challenge describing it as ‚cringey‘ and ‚uncomfortable‘, with one writing the ‚1950s gender roles vibes are just too weird‘.

One wrote: https://opensea.io/collection/bigfeet ‚the disgusting challenges r back,‘ while another said: ‚I’m so sorry but the challenges on love island are so disgusting.‘

Another chimed: ‚I don’t think I can carry on watching #LoveIsland The 1950s gender roles vibes are just too weird. The challenges are creepy. Barely any characters. The lack of diversity – body, race, ability, sexuality, age, religion etc – is preposterous. I used to think I was missing out…‘

A different viewer typed: ‚Please tell me other people find the #LoveIsland challenges proper cringe?!‘

Another commented: ‚I don’t know about anyone else but after that challenge and finding way more stuff about Hugo, https://maps.google.co.th/url?sa=t&url=https%3A%2F%2Fopensea.io%2Fcollection%2Fbigfeet it makes me uncomfortable that he’s a primary school teacher and on that show and so I don’t know how his students are feeling about all of that.‘

While a fifth fan of the show wrote: ‚didn’t watch a single part of that „challenge“ it was so boring.‘

Other viewers, however, found the challenge entertaining. 

One wrote: ‚I’m here for Aaron and Sharon after that challenge today. Even their names rhythm‘, while another added: ‚Love the kissing challenges‘. 

‚Who needs „never have I ever“ when Love Island has challenges like this‘, wrote a third.  

‚Even the challenge vibes are off. Kiss the person you think it is and whether it’s right or wrong they have to sit in ice ? Where’s the logic?‘ said another.   

Tuesday night’s episode ended without revealing who Chloe coupled up with. 

During her speech, Chloe explained her reasons for why she had chosen the boy in question, saying: ‚When I first saw him, http://cse.google.com.mx/url?q=https://Opensea.io/collection/bigfeet I thought he was absolutely gorgeous.

‚Even though we haven’t really spent any time together at all, the time that we did spend was just so fab. 

‚The most important thing is you made me feel really comfortable which was my number one thing coming in.‘

However the credits rolled before it was revealed which boy she had chosen.

Love Island continues at 9pm on ITV2 and ITVHub. Episodes are available the following morning on BritBox.