Anton Danyluk Gives His Number To Spanish Shop Assistant In Last Night’s Episode Of Love Island

I guess that, if you’re being filmed 24 hours a day for months on end, you would start to forget the corresponding records. Every indiscretion, every less than exemplary decision; for the contestants of Love Island, each hangover, and every ill-advised kiss, is caught on camera and played to the nation. Perhaps this goes someway to explaining what otherwise seems like a baffling move, brought on by tourist bravado/sunstroke or maybe cabin fever, in last night’s episode of ITV2s flagship show. That’s right: Friday night saw Anton break uncharted territory, flirting with a bona-fide member of the Spanish public on a trip to the supermarket for the yearly cooking challenge.

Scottish charmer Anton Danyluk traipsed through the first month or so of Love Island, evading elimination but perennially unlucky in love and taking his various heartbreaks with good grace. We liked him. We cheered him on. And then came Belle – never mind she was surprised to learn that Edinburgh was in Scotland, she’s adorable and she has amazing nails. She really likes Anton, and the feeling seemed mutual – until 5 minutes in the real world saw his ‘head turn’ (as they’d say in Love Island Land). A messy whisper train saw the news travel through the villa – Tommy told Molly, Molly told the girls, and the boys had an emergency summit in between making stuffed peppers and seafood linguine. Anton! Anton! You had the nation on your side; don’t forget, either, that Belle’s dad is a kind of Danny Dyer-lite, filmstar hardman Tamar Hassan. He’s already threated to ‘parachute into the villa’ if Anton hurts his daughter, which would certainly make for some exciting viewing. If he’s arriving, can we bring the cashier in too?

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Drama aside, the scene has reignited claims that this latest series of Love Island is overly staged by producers. Fans pointed out that, while it’s all very well to write your digits on the back of a receipt, Anton won’t have access to the phone they correspond to for up to five weeks as contestants aren’t permitted their own mobiles in the villa. Alex SHAQ Shafiq tweeted ‘Listen Molly & Anna, I’ll tell you what happened. Basically a producer said to Anton pretend to write your number down for a phone you don’t have access to and give it to the shop keeper who doesn’t speak English’, and Hannah Marie was another to suggest the scene might have been less that genuine, ‘This whole Anton giving the shop keeper his number is 100% staged #LoveIsland ’.