Love Island fans rattled over change to show ahead of 'messy' scenes

There was a shake-up to proceedings on Love Island on Thursday night, and it left fans rattled.

They didn't know what to make of the change to the start of the episode, and if it meant good things ahead or bad. Viewers were left wanting answers, needing to know what "messy" scenes were on the cardsamid a reported split.

As the latest episode began amid spoilers hinting at carnage in the villa, viewers noticed there was no "tonight" preview. Normally, narrator Iain Stirling famously says "tonight" before we see clips expected to air later in the episode.

There was none of that on Thursday ahead of The Grafties no doubt bringing chaos to the show. Noting the change-up, viewers were in meltdown as they demanded to know what was going on.

One fan said: "They didn’t even do a TONIGHT. About to be interesting." A second fan said: "They didn’t show tonight’s preview, why is that omg?" as a third said: "No tonight preview? That’s how you know the ep is about to be so good or so bad."

Another viewer said: "No 'tonight' preview, Yh this episode is going to be a mess." This was echoed by another fan who wrote: "No preview for this episode? Grafties gonna be messy."

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A further fan posted: "They didn’t even have a tonight preview, s**t must be hitting the fan." Amid rumours of a split on the cards and past scenes set to be played into the villa, it's no doubt going to be drama-filled.

It comes as viewers said they were "getting bored" of producers "trying to set up" contestant Shakira Khan, after another drama was set to kick off. Viewers have claimed for weeks that the producers "have something against" Shakira, and Toni, believing they are constantly being "set up" to look bad, or like "mean girls".

Taking to social media one fan said: "The producers are really trying to make Shakira and Toni feel bad with the grafties. Can’t stand what they’re doing. Hope the girlies stay strong!"

Another fan agreed: "The only reason the producers brought Meg back was in the hopes Connor would choose her and Shakira would be dumped from the island. Wtf is with this biased bs." A third fan said: "Producers. Can we stop with the anti Shakira agenda please."

This was echoed by another fan who begged: "This year love island producers are weirddddd leave Shakira alone," as another said: "I mean the producers agenda against Shakira is getting boring now." A further comment claimed: "You can tell Shakira is going home in the upcoming days the producers are setting her up."

Meanwhile one viewer posted: "The producers are trying to mess Shakira up and I don’t like it and they are trying to make her out to be a villain and it's not right and bringing Megan back for what she a mean girl. Why can’t they leave Shakira alone they are setting her up I don’t like it."

Viewers will have to tune in this week to see which moments win, and what the Islanders make of all the secret goings on. Amid another big dumping on the show, there's less than two weeks before the live final.

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