Love Island’s famous game, Online Buzz has been cancelled following claims that bosses used a string of “fake tweets”.
The brutal game forced Islanders hoping to find love to figure out who online viewers were talking about in a series of tweets read out by various contestants.
Throughout the history of Love Island, the game has caused fallouts, tears and drama but production staff have completely scrapped it this year.
Speaking to The Sun, a source said: “The Twitter challenge won’t be on this year’s series – it hasn’t been ditched for good, it’s just not happening on the winter season.”
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This year, a new series of Love Island moved away from Majorca and headed to the exotic location of South Africa for a new winter edition.
A new host is also fronting the show, Laura Whitmore stepped in to replace Caroline Flack.
But, the show still holds the same format and the rest of the classic challenges have stayed in place.
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Last year, viewers accused execs of using “fake tweets” to cause tension between the competing Islanders.
While taking part in the task, one tweet read: ” Tommy and Lucie are meant to be,” even though he was in a relationship with Molly-Mae Hague.
Manchester-born Molly seemed somewhat deflated following this and revealed that she was jealous of their friendship.
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Speaking to Tommy, she said: “I am the sort of person to get jealous over situations. You do spend a lot of time together.
“I just feel like she does try to get quite close to you.”
This led to Tommy distancing himself from Lucie who later admitted that she had some feelings for Tommy.
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A follow-up tweet said: “Nah, Tommy deserves more than Molly-Mae. She doesn’t like him. She likes £50k.”
In the past, Love Island bosses have been accused of attempting to control who is dumped from the villa and allegedly feeding Islanders information to cause drama.
ITV bosses claim that the show is a “fair and accurate” representation of life in the villa which is combined with “reality and produced elements”.
Daily Star Online has contacted representatives for Love Island.
