In her Saturday Night Live debut, Phoebe Waller-Bridge brought the UK Love Island overseas. The Fleabag actress and creator starred in a hilarious sketch, which highlighted how absurd (and wonderful) our favourite show can be.
Phoebe transformed for the skit, complete with huge lip fillers, where she played contestant Bella-Rosa whose ‘dad is a boxer’ and ‘mum is a pub’. 'Just got my lips done,’ she tells the camera in her introductory VT. ‘I asked the doctor for an allergic reaction!'
A voiceover described the contestants as 'the hottest people from the worst towns', adding: 'You’ve heard an English accent. You’ve heard an Irish accent. Now hear all the little weirdies in between.'
There’s also a scene by the famous firepit, where Phoebe and the fellow castmates have to couple up. When it comes to her chance to choose, she says in typical Love Island style, 'I would like to couple up with a guy who's exactly my type on paper. He's got tattoos, he's got really great banter, he's proper fit. But at the same time, I'd go with anyone...'
The voiceover also hilariously adds, ‘You will watch 50 hours of this - you think you won’t but you will.’
In the skit, Phoebe gets dumped from the show in a brutal recoupling, but she isn’t disappointed when she leaves the villa to see her huge Instagram following. ‘Are you joking,’ she exclaims. ‘1.1 million Instagram followers? I don't have to be a stupid paediatric nurse anymore, do I? Cha-ching!'
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