one thing I have learned is never never
never never give up there can be few
things that are changing more swiftly
than video technology I love television
not only in creating programs but in
learn your lines back to front inside
out so you could actually do the
backward really really fast get some to
test you endlessly my poor sister
paramount focus of any cinematography is
you you know you writing with imagery as
a movement director as opposed to a
choreographer I'm working with the
bodies and with the context and with the
story the narrative them with director
and how best to tell that story
remembering your lines is not as easy as
it used to do right I tend to like
scripts that are particularly where I
think costume can be really expressive
you have to evoke emotion in your
audience the best lighting people in the
business work on RuPaul's Drag Race
it takes a certain kind of lighting to
create the illusion I became a presenter
because I have no other transferable
skills right create your own luck like
literally create your own luck this is
amazing thing called a remote control if
someone liked it they can just move away
from you you're all you've got so just
be yourself
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hi everyone oh that's nice claps on
entry lovely it is lovely I know hi
everyone how you doing good I know
Sunday little bit tired but we're here
welcome to guru live just so you know we
are live so if you want to pick your
nose to get a wedgie or anything like
that do it discreetly unless you don't
mind and welcome our panel everyone okay
so we have to get the job titles
absolutely correct
Tom good exec for you sir Helen Kruger
Bratz production exec Richard cows who
is creative director entertainment at
ITV Studios is a big boss over here Jack
and Danny a winner Caroline Flack the
excellent presenter who do face of day
okay so now we're all cozy I suppose
this question is more aimed at you guys
here love island as the series what
makes it so special and stand out from
any other reality show on TV because we
have millions at the moment I guess I
think the subject matter is something
that is so you can connect anyone that
you like knows what it feels like to be
in love to fall in love and I think love
island you are watching over eight weeks
two people are winners but lots of
people everyone is falling in love in
real time and that's quite a special
thing to watch when they all go in there
as singles there's that awful moment
where you all couple up and you're kind
of dissed so you know that instant sort
of if it was tinder you're swiping left
or right as to who these people are in
front of you and then in eight weeks
time you've got two people who are in
love and hopefully more so I think that
falling in love in real time is a really
kind of strong thing that sort of sets
it apart from everything else yeah do
you remember cuz obviously it started
ages ago there was a celebrity love
Island as well how am I
it developed since then so that was in
2005 and then in 2015 we redeveloped it
for itv2
and so the idea was itv2 is a channel
for 16 to 34 year olds and so the idea
is how do we reimagine love love island
was the format that everyone kind of
slagged off at the time but loved so
you've go in and you try and picture all
of these ideas like love island and you
go we've got love island and so they
kind of said yeah we like it but it
didn't do very well so anyway itv2 said
how do you turn love Island into or what
can you do to attract this audience and
we said we've got love island and we can
totally redo it reimagine it for this
audience and we did that and we kind of
pitched them a new version of it and
it's yeah seems gone quite well and here
as well yeah cuz I've been watching it
probably for the last three years and
even since then it's changed so much I
feel like this last year the year before
seeing how much it took over social
media and just like you couldn't escape
it that was the first conversation you
have in the hairdresser's when you're in
a taxi like are you watching love Island
oh my god I love it and it completely
took over when do you think that change
came why why did it happen then and not
before it's been a gradual thing and I
think you know any digital channel sort
of takes a bit of time to get an
audience to it but you mentioned social
media and that's been a huge part of the
show yeah and it was something you know
Tom and the other producers that were
involved at the very beginning we kind
of thought you know they this is the
medium and actually when we pitched it
we kind of said we don't want
celebrities we want to create celebrity
celebrities for this audience exists on
social media they don't exist as sort of
in a traditional way in the way that we
used to think about it you sort of you
and we wanted to take people who kind of
existed in that world or could exist in
that world put them on this platform and
then you know then they become bigger
and they do become celebrities and it
becomes a bigger thing but I think you
know that was that was really important
was putting social media at the heart of
it and that has just grown each year
yeah we're gonna touch on social media a
bit more yeah in a bit but Caroline when
you join the show 2015 you join okay
yeah how was that for you did you know
initially in your mind this is gonna be
a massive thing or was it kind of a
woman are and about it how did you feel
when you got on no I mean it was a
no-brainer as soon as I said love links
I watch the first place but actually I
couldn't do it because I was doing X
Factor at the time a major it says
you've been offered to do love island
but we're knocking about to fit in and I
was like well can't we try and he's like
no and I kept going back to him I think
I'd rather do love I know you got you
act I was like what can we try and we
really did went back and forth back and
forth when we managed to do it
Simon Cowell very kindly let me have a
few days off nice and unusual but I'd
worked with these guys before on one of
my first live TV shows and it was doing
the jungle and when you work with a team
like this you always fight to get back
and work for them again cuz they're the
best and and I knew the show was gonna
be reactive I knew the show was gonna be
live and that's the kind of thing I like
to invest and it was about love yes I
wanted to do that as well and I think
you touched on it earlier when people
relate to the love side of things but I
think also people really relate to the
heartbreak side of love Island and
people also have in their heart broken
and you watching you think hold on I've
been through that and I feel like that
so yeah yeah you're connecting with
everybody and everybody yeah do you get
any chance to speak to the contestants
or Islanders back like when we don't see
you on camera no you know I think with
what you see okay and what was nice
actually from your season to you because
season one I never went into the villa
yeah it was always they always came out
to me and actually it really helps going
into the villa because part of I guess
when they come out is that they trust me
I think that's really important isn't it
so when you come up really important to
have that trust not just with the
audience and the viewers but with the
Islanders because they they they've got
to be able to talk to you and not be
scared of you ever think you're gonna
kind of ask them intimidating questions
yeah it's not what the show is about
so yes it's nice to go into the villa
yeah you do get the moment some people
be like oh no Caroline's coming what's
gonna happen now yeah you cos being in
the village ooh do you have any idea
when she's coming in and you kind of
mind in your chair once I was on the
daybed well I'll go just light in there
that's our announcers are there you
don't know she just comes down though
we're just having a fun day and then
interruption and in
when you're filming the eliminations and
everything like that is that completely
live would you have to stop and start is
there discussions in between so people
get taken out at any point no I have to
you know I have one chance to deliver
that news you can't deliver news twice
no it's impossible which is the beauty
of live TV but obviously you have to
pre-recorded moments I have to be you've
seen it I literally can't live it up
give it away so wait walk in I've got my
head down I laughs I haven't the serious
head of his heart I'd have to be you
know cuz it's tense and it's not very
nice and there was a time this shared
it's when you walked him back from
classroom or I know he's gonna walk back
in but I can't tell down because it must
be knowing what's gonna happen and see
and the reactions of the island doesn't
be like I just want to give you a hug
it's fine you're gonna be okay in two
seconds you've got a hold it in
absolutely I think season three with
Camila when she'd had her heart broken
by Johnny every girl who was watching
that show wanted to give Camille her
heart yeah and included me but I
couldn't walk in there and just not I'm
Alan how about the stats everything that
goes on behind the scenes how many
cameras are in the villa this seventy
three cameras around the villa in the
toilet so you have your hide cameras
which are you really high-end cameras so
we will have four of those we'll have
six positions but there'll be four
there's a jib that we will move across
to film challenges each day then we have
lots of like small cameras hidden
cameras your little pool the pool cam
that you see symptoms of a technical
setup yeah exactly
yeah so for us in terms of you know from
a technical point of view well first of
all we've taken an existing villa that
is a lovely German family's pride and
joy
so it's actually lived in before they go
absolutely and it's done goes back to
which it's done is very beautiful
there's some um
rustic stone that everything has to be
put back exactly is so you can't just
you know typical TV studio you'd be
drilling holes left right and center
this we have to really respect so we
extend the biller but we have to put it
back afterwards that's a challenge in
itself and then in terms of the
footprint we can only have a small
amount of people based at the villa so
we have the gallery the cameras the
challenge team and then four kilometers
away in a little village well actually a
concrete factory it's very unglamorous
we feed all the material by microwave
link to basically our production base
and there we have a very unglamorous
apparently we've bought new yorker out
of porta cabins we have all these porta
cabins where we have the production team
we have the edit Suites we have an art
department you know the workshop they
are building all the challenges that you
see so it's a it's a massive setup and
then you're also competing with you know
your whether we have lightning storms as
we know in the Orca it can be boiling
we've had to create little hoods for the
cameras because they were overheating
though yeah how'd you do that when there
is a storm and you're obviously filming
every day yeah you just ride for it
because I don't remember really seeing
any rainy days on the show it's right
the cameras have little rain jackets
only well but we have a real there's a
real delicate point as to what point we
think a lightning storm is too near and
it's all to do with distance away and at
times you know we would have to shut
power down but fortunately we've never
we've never got to that and how many
people are on site while they're asleep
and stuff so there in total is about 200
of crew who worker across the series
effort every week okay yeah yeah and I'm
just in terms of I think that's the
thing it's you know something like that
would be challenging in itself in the UK
but you've got you know you've got new
yorking team you've got a UK team and
it's just you know the welfare of
looking after people who are working
away from home a lot of people have been
there for three or four months so you
know that all you know there's a lot of
infrastructure that goes with it yeah
because I was going to ask about the UK
team as well
how involved today how much how often
are you in communication with them every
single cell so yes so I I only go out
for a little bit and all more of a
supervisor a contract credit but we will
you know we are in touch a lot we have
what sucks going on all the time where
we are you know the TV would fall apart
we have a little core team in the UK who
will be always lazing within terms of
what bombshells going into the villa are
there any issues that need to be ironed
out do extra people need to fly out and
then we obviously have here after some
team as well yeah and how did you go
about choosing a team like that is that
people that you've used in years before
or do you kind of hunt out for new
talent we we there's a real tried and
trusted team that we work with and it's
really helpful and useful that they've
worked in these reality shows before
particularly on location and it's
amazing to be able to have a team that
can really hit the ground running but at
the same time as well it's also good to
get you bloody a new perspective to keep
it fresh and also to offer you know
career progression so that you know
someone can start off at a certain level
and come back the next year with with
more responsibility there's a lot of
people to oversee isn't it yeah which is
obviously massive I don't know is there
anyone in the audience that would want
to go on love Island the process cuz
that's essentially one of the most
important things yeah the show
car-stealing yeah knowing how in demand
it is now there's gonna be a lot of
people that just want to go on for
follow aside but then there's people
that genuinely want to find love as well
yeah how'd you decipher who's there for
what and basically just taught me
through the whole process yeah what the
obviously we open the application
process we opened it at the end of the
final that Jack and anyone Canada like
and so and we get inundated now we've
got to a stage where last year we had
over a hundred thousand people apply and
I would anticipate more this time around
but we do go out and approach people as
well so we will contact people through
Instagram through social media casting
team will go out and meet people they'll
go to clubs they'll go to shopping
centres they'll go out and look for
people as well they'll contact
modeling agencies extra agencies all
sorts of things we basically try any
route that we can to find people but
then once that contact has been made
then the process is the same for
everybody so then they're invited to
apply they'll come in for an initial
audition with the casting team then we
the exact producing team will watch
those initial auditions and then decide
who we think we'd like to meet and then
people and meet with us and then that
through that process we sort of Whittle
it down to actually quite a big pool
yeah what kind of questions are being
asked in those audition stages is it
like okay how many boyfriends a vo yeah
the key thing is basically you are
obviously looking for people who are big
personalities who you know will go into
the villa and can sort of hold their own
in what is an incredibly intense
environment but you are also looking for
people who are going to be open and
honest about their feelings and that is
absolutely essential we didn't have that
if we didn't have people who were
willing to open up to us then we
wouldn't be able to make the show
because we ask so much of you guys from
that point of view so a lot of the
questions that we ask it gonna be you
know are these people comfortable
talking about their love lives doing you
know why did you break up with your last
boyfriend what's the most embarrassing
date you've ever been on all of the
things that you would expect us to us to
really get inside and get an
understanding of you know these people's
relationship history and what makes them
tick and how they think they might be in
the villa we want them to fall in love
yeah they have to be ready at that point
it's not about coming in and you know
putting another notch on the bedpost it
we want people to come in and genuinely
want to find out oh really
our person was ugly yeah I don't know
what's do then obviously went there and
I just appreciate his haka Jovovich
happen I hope ladies hope about our
feelings now yeah yeah so chat about
using your life really and and how many
questions do you remember feeling like
oh gosh don't have to pretend or were
you completely yourselves I'll see
myself yeah I can't do any of you have
another mean is just talking about
literally like like you don't past love
life and stuff that did you ever have in
your mind going in like okay my life is
absolutely gonna change is there
anything I need to hold back are we just
gonna like take me as i yeah have me
yeah I'll just open just like yourself
yeah and in terms of people being the
actual casters and they are quite
supported throughout the process aren't
they so they they are trying to find out
your personality but they're gonna
support you through the whole process of
it so how involved are you after you've
actually cast the people Oh massively so
and I mean that you know we spend a lot
of time chatting to anyone who's going
to go into the villa about exactly what
to expect from it and the casting team
become really good and I think that
relationship is so important and then
that continues once they're in the villa
as well and yes you know there is
interaction with producers within the
villa and that's really important and
you guys need to feel supported while
you're in there yes and that with those
relationships that have been built up
over the time from the point of the
first audition coming to play yeah
that's how we sort of look after them
you got a mate for life and you sort of
in touch with any of the people that you
met on the show backstage like behind
the scenes yeah no we do we actually
train teams are team big team and in
terms of the cost in there was some
criticism based on diversity and the
villa and maybe different shapes and
sizes body image rays etc how did you
guys deal with that and and you feel
like nobody any change in the future I
mean we you know when we set out I
suppose there are lots of subjects that
you've sort of included in that but I
think what what we try and do first and
foremost we're casting for personality
and we want people that are you know
eight weeks of television the people
that we put in there have to be
interesting have to be able to hold your
attention
for that amount of time but also you
know we are creating a sort of slightly
aspirational world and there is no
denying that everyone that goes in there
is good-looking and but also importantly
they fancy one another yeah you know you
have to have a group of people that are
all kind of going to want to date one
another so in terms of the looks we
don't really you know we get a lot of
criticism in the fact that we don't cast
people you know her perhaps slightly
different body shapes or slightly
different I think we try to and we do
you know and I think if you were to go
back over all of the series you'll find
that people there are lots of there is a
variety but everyone is good-looking in
terms of diversity we try and cast the
most diverse cast that we can and you
know and I think if you look back over
the whole series and the people that go
in and out there are it was a diverse
cast I'd love it to be more diverse and
I think we struggle sometimes to attract
people from certain backgrounds and
we're always working on that and a lot
of our team and a lot of the team that
we employ within the casting team are
diverse as well because we're trying to
tap into as many different groups as we
can but ultimately we can only go from
the pool of people that apply why if you
want to be on the show beforehand I know
we did just touch on how supportive
everybody is before you go into the show
but what kind of process do you go
through with that because I mean it does
change people's lives completely in
terms of preparing to be in the press
and I don't know like internet backlash
or anything like that what's the process
with preparing people yes sir so we um
obviously they you know our casting team
really talked about what the impact is
likely to be of taking part on the show
we also have a team that will also look
over previous social media posts at
least kind of from the last five years
and more just to think is there anything
in there that you know could come out
and you know so we take you know very
seriously we've got a duty of care to
protect everyone and is it appropriate
then we have you have a medical tests
you meet with our consultant doctor and
also we have as
to analysts who will also meet an assess
and look at is it appropriate is it the
right thing is it the right fit is there
going to be any negative impact and so
we really talked it through and then we
keep in touch we have a real small core
team who will always be talking about
welfare and we have on site a medical
team and also the psychoanalyst as well
and she will be always watching what's
going on in the show are there any signs
does she need to kind of check in and
then I think you would say as well that
when you kind of leave you then have a
debrief conversation you meet with the
team our press team really supportive
again look about all their numbers yeah
and then it's just about always keeping
in touch you know when we have you know
some some of our team will just be sort
of monitoring people's social media and
think are they okay I think we need to
just check in and we offer up follow-up
chats or conversations throughout it
doesn't really sort of and we just like
to always keep in touch yeah so you're
fully supported the whole time it's
really really still supported now under
storytelling and the stories that you
choose to follow throughout the whole
thing cuz you always forget watching the
show that it's actually on 24 hours but
you only show an hour so squashing
everything down to an hour knowing that
there's these people talking the whole
time I'm sure there's loads of things
that happen who decides what get gets
put into the show and and what gets cut
out it's very much a team process you
know starts in in the gallery you've got
story producers gallery producers who
are watching everything that these guys
do that is then fed back over to the
Edit Suites at the concrete factory and
that's where the and the discussion
between the gallery and the edit is
where the sort of first stage of working
out right which stories are we going to
focus on today as exec producers we're
then included in that discussion and we
sort of map out where we think the day
might go and then obviously we follow
because things always take a a different
path to what we expect so it's a sort of
constant feedback loop really between
the villa and also the the thing the
other thing that we've got which does
make us different from
other reality shows is we do have
producers in the villa and that allows
us to sort of allows an interaction with
the Islanders which is really crucial to
us it also allows us to get a sense of
what's going on that we wouldn't
otherwise get if you guys just came into
the beach hut and our only interaction
with you was in the beach huh I think
we'd get a very different view to the
fact that there are producers who do
chat to you who you know after breakfast
might sit down with Danny and just find
out what is she thinking today what you
know how is she feeling about Jack what
does she want to happen next all of that
kind of thing and and the villa producer
feeds into the gallery into the editors
world so all of the team are basically
discussing all the time and trying to
work out and the off trick team as well
who are the team that takes people out
on dates and things like that and so
it's a sort of ongoing process that
never ends yeah because you'd always
wonder watching when today everybody's
lives that you feel you know everything
about and what ate for breakfast and
dinner because I don't see that part we
made that decision in series one
absolutely that we weren't going to be
interested in that side of their lives
yes that is very much something in Big
Brother did it and have done it for
years brilliantly but that is not what
we're interested in everything that we
every story that we cover has has
something to do with relationships
whatever that might be but everything
comes back to love yeah so does that
mean when they all having breakfast and
stuff you have to interrupt their
conversations if they're saying too much
or well save that I think that the
island is kind of getting to a habit of
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toasties with popular this year actually
in the kitchen what are your options for
breakfast stuff though sometimes ask
Chris what you want yeah what was your
breakfast
iced laughs avocado on time too bad eggs
lovely jam on toast yes
like if you'd get up a bit later you'd
eat your breakfast and then lunch would
come you think should I eat that yeah
are there anything I'll just which hour
every day yeah if they're bacon are
amazing and weird the story how much
intervention did you have if something
was going one way would you kind of
interrupt and say oh no can you bring it
back I mean I think we've said this
before that it's we will talk to the
Islanders about how they're feeling and
so we will know what they're thinking
you know the conversations that they
want to have and to some extent we will
have a hand in when some of those
conversations might happen but we
absolutely never tell anyone what to say
what to think or what to do so
everything has to come from within but
you know we we've always been very open
about the hand of the producer on the
show you know the voiceover in
Sterling's voice over acknowledges it
sort of most episodes and you know we're
I think that sort of takes the allows
the audience to step back slightly from
what they're from what they're seeing
and know that it is a produced reality
show we sort of sit somewhere between a
more traditional reality show like Big
Brother and I'm a celebrity at one end
and then the more constructed shows like
Terry or Geordie or Made in Chelsea or
the other end we sit somewhere in the
middle of that spectrum yeah and so we
do you know all of the things that we do
to make the show that the format twists
that we put in the challenges that we
put in the new arrivals that we throw in
are all designed very much to sort of
affect the the course of the narrative
but in terms of what these guys their
reaction to those things are entirely
there I like some good reactions
throughout the show I think everything
shows in the face I feel like I'm quite
good at stone facing but you will of you
with the challenges and the games and
the stunts who comes up with those and
how much thought goes into it before
because you have some great ones in the
previous years of whether they're gonna
carry on to the new series or leave them
alone completely there was one that
didn't come in that was like oh I loved
it so much the talent show when they had
to perform that was one of my favorite
flavors
what made and that was that was on the
board you know the way we work is an
unusual way it's certainly not a way
that I've worked on any other show where
on other shows you might go into a
series with a pretty good idea of what's
going to happen on any given day don't
do that at all on the show we basically
build up we spend our pre-production
period we have a challenge team who come
up with all of these ideas and we
basically have on our office walls a
whole lot of challenges a whole lot of
potential new cast members a whole lot
of dates and rigged events that we could
do in a whole lot of format to it and we
sit with the blank whiteboard and just
think right what what now what what's
the best thing what challenge is the
right thing to put in today to try and
push the narrative in a particular
direction because the the audience
expect there to be constant drama
constant twists and turns and so we sort
of have to react to what to the
storylines that are coming out of the
villain and then throw in whatever we
think is the right thing at the right
point yeah I suppose you can't pre plan
for that I knew someone last night let's
do a challenge there but I mean
everything comes down to testing people
as a couple everything that we do is
about that having an armory and you're
just choosing right what you know what
weapons gonna work today yeah try and
test this lock Jack and Johnny what was
your what were your favorite games and
their what what were the one that tested
you the most I know that Katherine Moore
was a bit of a kick off fun oh yeah
games and stuff I just think that the
Twitter one that really annoyed people's
opinions because um I ain't bothered but
you could see that I'm the 18 challenges
they're gross but they're funny because
we talk about them all day like you need
things that just have a laugh we're not
dressed in little tiny pants enough what
are you doing but I love the you know
what's know comfort when the middle
pants is acting
we actually have a clarify peg from the
hot stuff challenge fire baby you know
what you're gonna get all our caramel
actions Oh is a bit hard and
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I don't think it was possible to fancy
worth any more than I already did we
living it in my mind beautiful it's so
one car for firemen say it's a bit
nerve-wracking but what's the hip start
going you start getting into the rhythm
you know me and the door waiting from
save me waiting a long time if that was
a real fire to burn to a crisp don't
know why he was doing that when I
couldn't even see it was like having a
smoke in the rain very very romantic
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I've tried making it as sexy as possible
whether that works or not I don't know
but I'll go be a guy always come to get
me everybody fancied evening on this day
I thought that feels the pants or not I
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killed the cat you know so iet's hand a
dead cat to Bannon what president
Oh safe oh good the games were
incredible I mean watching them you'd be
like come on and the slow motion effects
and everything like that really made it
is that weird watching it back have you
seen much of the show that makes you
emotional ugh
obviously watching someone else is when
I first come out I was like oh I'm gonna
I'm doing it on the sly though secretly
want everyone to die it's like a creme J
so if you watch the whole series I've
watched a few of them that people
recommended me sir own emphasize yeah
and then after a while you just don't
don't do it you know I stopped it that
would be the first thing I did my gosh
is there a nip slip or anything going
back to the new arrivals do you mean how
it felt having somebody new come into
the villa was it a scary feeling were
you more excited for new people I mean
you two were kind of stable right from
the beginning so there wasn't too much
concerned but I know for some of the
other Islanders yeah are they gonna
steal my man well it's always gonna be
scary when you get new arrivals at the
beginning it does become so exciting and
you know the people that come in and out
you're like you meet new friends and it
you know it's great because you do start
thinking when you have to sit down in a
circle we get all hot on that you guys
so what's your type in notice I told our
can answer and I think with question in
the new people you're right and they're
making them feel at home yeah woody tell
I always got get more asylum and when
you run out of the villa as well cuz you
go on your little shopping day oh yeah
how was that experience did you have
like massive security guards with you
and stuff for New York of people didn't
really know if it I know we were often
did you leave the villa was that just a
one time for the shopping trip or where
you're allowed out just for just for
dates yeah and obviously when you go to
the challenge stage and stuff I love
that it was shopping trip actually
really good memories and when when the
people were coming in and there was new
new
Island does I want to call them
customers loo customers came in new
Islanders did you find it easy to make
the bottoms or was it a bit kind of
stiff because you know there's so many
cameras around you know that there's a
bit of a pressure to maybe be like nice
them you didn't want to show your side
of life they away from a man I'm always
quiet I like people like I always want
to get to know everyone really you want
to make them feel comfortable
cuz we've already forgotten about the
cameras when they come in know we're
already comfortable so they sort of come
relax
calm down you'll be all right yeah yeah
[Laughter]
and back to the story line yeah I got
tax situation do you know the text there
before you shout out I've got a text or
is that actually it's right in that
moment I have a text no no you just
can't just get a text Nicole who's that
there was different varies if I've got a
some good sex shouting across the
village yeah when you do get that text
what's the feeling that goes for your
mind cuz it's never I'm just I please be
good news fingers crossed
generations Caroline back to you when
you are coming in and nobody's expecting
you do you ever feel awkward are you
just gonna like accept me take me as I
am coming in no I get really excited
yeah cuz I'm watching the show like
everyone else
and I know that's gonna happen so I get
really really excited before I go in and
I'm standing outside I've got an
earpiece in and that's literally like
right ten seconds nine eight and then I
walk it and these guys are like that um
yeah I mean I it's a serious point in
the show but because I'm you know half
presenter definitely half viewer yeah
for me I get really start with all the
Islanders and the more I get to know
them than what the more exciting you'd
be the same yeah yeah Villa it's a
really exciting moment but like I say I
have one chance to do it and deliver
that news and then get right out I
suppose the most exciting thing is I
don't know what I'm gonna go in
yeah I'll be at home eating my corn
flakes and I was suddenly other texts
and I've got a Turk you need to be at
the Villa tonight because you've got you
know a bomb chapter job because I know I
saw you yeah like I'm flying back
tonight and then you're back in and
you're you're up and down the whole time
like you are pretty much a jet setter
for the whole of the series pretty much
sometimes I can go two weeks up going in
but I think it's you know I think it's
got to be a surprise I think if I went
in every Thursday everyone's like oh
yeah
it's quite nice when it's surprise so
it's as much a surprise for me as it is
for those guys yeah
and Ian's involvement obviously he's a
massive part of the show he's absolutely
hilarious how much does he put into the
script is he right some of it or is it
yeah he's part of the writing process
there's basically Ian and then there's
Mark Cowley who is our sort of
scriptwriter and together it's - quite
grumpy Scottish people who are basically
locked in a porter cabin they're looking
at everything and trying to find the
worst thing they can say about everyone
and everything and then we tone them
down and these guys tail them down and
then and then their script goes on but
basically their job you know so much
analysis is done on love Island but
actually it's an entertainment show and
the idea is that for everyone that's
watching it's a little break from
whatever your reality is that you can go
and watch it and you can have some fun
and there's so many big themes that are
brought out of love island but actually
we're an entertainment show and their
job is to sort of poke fun at the whole
process you know it is funny it's
slightly ludicrous that you put these
people in and then they do recup Ling
and dumping and all the rest and it's
fantastically you know the emotional
bonds are really really strong but we
kind of like to have at its heart a
little bit of fun and a little bit of
lewd it's ludicrous the voice-over will
say we bought it off Amazon for like 10
euro you know and then oh how factual is
that a lie detector yes yeah just about
was sending ourselves up to some extent
yeah I think that's what makes the show
even better the fact that it is like
hearted and you do have a laugh as well
as feeling so connected to the Islanders
you go through heartbreak but you are
pissing yourself pretty much because of
Ian and everything else on to social
media and the fan feedback and
everything I'd say the last series
before this one was when it really got
massive online and you couldn't escape
it every every time it was on it was
trending my whole timeline would be
about love Ireland like it was insane I
don't wasn't it the most tweeted about
show ever
yeah incredible so that's that's massive
how do you guys control all of that did
you know you were going on
yeah it's insane like it's what
obviously social media is getting bigger
and bigger by the year by the day but
when you're actually in it in your your
a show that's so huge and based on that
so entirely how much do you add that to
the show like do you do things knowing
that it's gonna be big online or is it
just do your show and then I think you
just have to kind of carry on with what
you want to do and making the show the
way that we want to make it and let
social media do you know I don't think
you can add the only thing I would say
and it's the only show where this is
possible because it's fast turnaround it
means that you sort of get instant
feedback every night so a show would go
out you'd see what the reaction was on
social and then actually that can then
play into your planning for the next day
and that's really helpful and that might
be that you sort of see where people
think you're gonna go next with what
they think we're gonna do next and we do
it or it might be the exact opposite of
that where people were all speculating
that well obviously they're going to do
this next and so because we know that we
do the exact opposite so it is from that
point of view it is a really useful tool
yeah but I think in terms of all the
sort of the controversies what Caroline
says you know everyone has such strong
opinions about it and there everyone
recognizes the the things that they see
happening the heartbreak that they see
in the way that people are behaving that
they're going to put the strength of
that opinion online and we sort of just
have to stand back from it I think the
important thing about social media for
us is you know normally with a TV show
you exist for an hour the hour you are
on air you exist people sort of talk
about it within that time but with
social media and and because we embrace
it so much and we've got we've got a
digital team that are embedded within
the production and in the same way that
sort of Mark and Ian are sort of looking
at the show and thinking about how they
can write from a script point of view
and our digital team we're doing exactly
the same thing and they're looking at
the show and they're trying to pick out
bits that they can either seed in
advance of the show going out that night
so we'll do an edit in the morning and
then they'll look at that edit and
they'll cut together a first-look clip
that then goes out and basically
everyone you know some of those clips
we're getting like you know two million
three million
people watching it and you're kind of
good that's great marketing for the show
but it's also keeping that conversation
alive for the 23 hours that we're not on
air yeah and so we put stuff out there
but then the conversation just happens
it's mostly Caroline Sain I don't think
I'm ever in my whole social media life
scene show have such a big reaction ever
like I'm 24 years old and I feel like
everybody from my age my mum's age even
my nannies Swedish she barely knows
what's going on he was obsessed with it
as well and it's incredible its massive
how did you guys find it being a part of
it and knowing that you are topics of
conversation during the show Caroline
especially cuz you can see it going on I
suppose you guys don't mean yeah I mean
from a professional point of view and
the social media side is so important
because I use it to tease the show if
I've I watched the show before it goes
out and I know it's gonna be a good one
you know I'll put out there you've got
to tune in tonight so and so it's gonna
happen
yeah from a personal point of view I get
really defensive when I see anything
negative written about any of the
Islanders because I feel like they're my
family yeah the girls I really have to
hold myself back with and I've learned
that through my career it's always best
just to say nothing yeah and actually
I'm more qualified in that than love I'm
better given that advice I remember
saying to Terri in series 2 don't reply
you're gonna come out and there's gonna
be so much stuff in online the best
thing to do don't reply and with love I
won't give them any it's really
important you know the chat that
surrounds the show is as if as important
as the show itself is putting on yeah
and Jack and Danny on I suppose you know
that it's gonna be massive and you know
that there's a lot of people watching
but there's nothing that can really
prepare you for how many people are
going to be talking about you in the
urge in you and how is that feeling
coming out and actually turning your
phones on for the first time oh that was
scary when you first had your 500g you
just have to not get so addicted to it I
think that you just need to like put
your phone down sometimes because it can
become like almost what they sound about
me and it does it is a first thing it's
like people are so lovely and so
supportive and make you feel amazing but
then people can make you feel all four
as well when it really does affect you
so you just have to send
just think yeah just don't reply because
you just you got your initial reaction
you would have been our part
just don't fly like you just have to
just put it down and yeah you know focus
on every like you know people really
matter you 100% same of you check yeah
it's weird like that could be like a
hundred lovely comments about one thing
it's not nice you only look at that one
yeah you go our road yeah and going on
through the app for that that did really
well as well and that's kind of like a
new addition more than the older series
who came up with that idea how how much
had they happen from the first yeah it's
been from the first series and it was
you know again that was part of the
rethinking of the show you know in 2015
where we've sort of come back did you
know the way that the audience that we
were trying to connect with connects
with the world is through their phone so
traditionally we've done sort of voting
via sort of you know people would ring
up and all of those sort of phone
numbers we wanted a free app where
people could just vote and we pretty
much just got a free app to vote on on
the first show because that's all we
could afford them but we wanted to
evolve it and it's evolved sort of in
line with all of the social media and
you know with digital and so each year
it gets bigger and better and there's
sort of more on there there was a shop
on this year you could buy the waterboxx
you could do everything and you know and
you could see all the clips you could
follow you know you could follow jack
and Danny's story from the beginning
there was a kind of a whole montage of
all of that and for each couple and each
Islanders thing it was really really
important and I think that was quite
that was really important to us when we
have to struggle quite heart because no
one wants to pay for an app and it's
sort of that was like the the bull that
kept getting thrown around thrown around
to every sort of different department
but eventually we managed to sort of get
it it's grown and you've even got a love
Allen game is that you guys there's that
somebody separately so we've licensed
the game we've got the you've got a game
you could be an Islander yeah I've
actually completed it have you I've
never played a phone game with my
and this is the only one now I've got on
to some other ones similar but love iron
game I got involved in and I thought I
would spend an actual movie on it buy an
outfit making sure I look good go bad
you live the whole experience you
download this and it's the game and you
basically can become a female Islander
yeah so I was going through the scripts
going how excited can I actually get
about buying this this different swim
way I was involved have a good outfit
for the Greek couple inner voice you
might not get chosen and you've got the
moves with everyone I did I got my
couple yeah it's really good it's
addictive it's kind of like a mix
between sins and then like actual love I
don't kind of think multiple choice it's
great game it's gonna check it out I'm
even watching love Island Australia at
the moment as well yeah it's just
massive and really addictive just cuz
the accents and stuff you have amazing
addressing issues online and stuff
because obviously you get loads and
loads of lovely comments and as you were
saying everybody's super involved in
there's memes and big discussions and
things that go viral but then it's also
open to backlash on certain topics and I
know there was a thing about Adams
gaslighting situation in quotes and how
would you deal with that kind of stuff
yeah I think like I said earlier I think
there were a lot of people that when you
when you're a successful show I think
you'll find that a lot of people want to
thrust their issue onto your show and it
goes back to Helens point at the
beginning we take this sort of health
and well-being of all of our cast really
really seriously and so we you know
we're watching it 24/7 we've got people
in there we've got people who are just
dedicated to watching it for their
well-being and so if anything is really
kind of unsettling or if we're kind of
worried about any sort of behavior we
step in and we're talking to them and
we're kind of having a conversation say
are you alright and that incident with
Adam and Rosie the one that kind of sort
of hit the headlines and got this sort
of gaslighting sort of moniker which I
thought was really unfair because
actually Rosie wasn't a victim and Rosie
when she came out was really really
surprised by that whole situation I
think she said she on after-sun and it
was kind of it sort of for me it
undermines the whole seriousness of that
issue if you're trying to sort of put
tag on something within our show because
it it wasn't that from from my opinion
it wasn't that and more importantly from
the opinion of the people within the
villa and the people who were involved
in that it wasn't that it was just two
people having an argument about their
relationship and discussing their
relationship and sometimes that does get
emotional but it was in no way you know
the mental bullying that it was given or
made out to be yeah I suppose it's just
something that comes with reality shows
you throw everything for there's gonna
be people that are gonna have something
people want to put their cause and and
so I have it associated with the show
because you can you can kind of get
amplify it and and bring it to the
public consciousness and I and I think
that's great
the an entertainment show can have these
issues discussed I think when the issues
are discussed in a not very positive way
and I think all well and good if our
show can highlight certain issues and
have people talk about them but the
trouble is ik
back quite a sensible way that you'd
hope it would and after sun caroline
plays a big part in everything I've been
on it myself love it that that's kind of
like your time to speak to the guests
and and have a one-on-one and it's the
first proper interview that you do see
with the Islanders how have you found
that whole process and how it's changed
and grown for others it's great because
as we said the chat that surrounds a
show is as important as a show itself
and it gives everyone a chance to kind
of talk about what they want to talk
about and we use the show more
importantly to ask the questions that
the viewers want to ask and so social
media again comes in so handy because we
will put out questions beforehand and
people write in what they want to know
yes so everything we ask the guys to
come on the show is from the viewers and
that's really important I don't want to
you know be the kind of person that
avoids all the questions I also don't
want to be the kind of person that kind
of digs you and gives you a hardcore
interview because we're not that kind of
show
yeah we can be a bit more serious in the
main show but when it comes to after-sun
it's a bit more about having a laugh
having fun than kind of sauna issues in
a fun way yeah in a serious way and it
feels like it's always been around after
son could you don't get many spin-off
shows anymore they used to be around for
a lot of shows and because of social
media
you don't need them as much because you
get your extra material online
but with after Sutton I feel that we do
need it because you need that chance to
talk about it cuz that's all everyone's
doing all week and you get one hour to
kind of discuss have a laugh and get it
all sorted on the Sunday
it's brilliant yeah I mean you get the
behind-the-scenes also in the polls yeah
you can get involved and and how did you
guys find your after that experience
yeah we did get to go on that one not to
the finals as well that's a massive
thing I feel like that makes it so much
more special knowing that everybody's
there you fly up some audience members
and watching that is like I had a
viewing party at my house literally
about seven girls sat there like even
though I did feel like we knew you were
gonna win it's still that suspense of
like who what's gonna have a new second
news bird what was that who made the
decision to have a live final when we
did the first series we had a sort of
live show every week and then we quickly
got rid of that but I think there is
because it is a fast turnaround show
there is something fantastic about a
live final in one way you can all find
out together so I think it was you know
from series 2 we've always had that that
live final and it's the one thing that
you can do do with the show and create
that sense of excitement in cinema it
was amazing yeah it was huge I know a
lot of brands did like viewing parties
and cinemas and people had like literal
garden parties with it on a big screen
and stuff it's like a national treasure
show baby food and now going forth
knowing that you've got such a big show
and how successful it's been
do you feel like you're gonna change
many things in the future or is it like
we've got something that works let's
stick to that that discussions coming I
you know I think you know we make our
Miss Liberty as well and I think the
trick to these shows and keeping them
going for a long time is to not change
them too much because I think it's it's
a bit like a brand if you were to sort
of change the name of Mars bar or
whatever people would be outraged so I
think if we were to change love Island
too much people would be outraged but I
think because it is such a flexible
shows tom was saying earlier on so much
of it is unwritten there are kind
not that many format points to love
island it is put singles in have them
couple have them dumped do the date so
there's all of those sorts of things and
then everything else is up for grabs so
it really there is so much flexibility
within there and because we don't really
write that much in advance most of it is
you know we've prepared a load of
challenges we've prepared you know Cass
or amaura's appeared twice who knows
what we'll do you know next year that is
the most stressed out I've ever seen
Lister there's a whole nation watching
you sleep on that so you swing better
outside I know Danny was just sort of
like fretting about what you're up to
was getting seasick on it
fine aggression for everybody up suppose
we can go down this way what's been your
favorite moment of the series well I
think probably my favorite moment of
last series because something we hadn't
done before was the Beach Club which
happened relatively near the end of the
series and I think for me the Beach Club
it sort of sums up how we make the show
which is that we knew we were going to
do this Beach Club thing but literally
it was a day before when we actually
worked out what that would mean and what
the dilemma would be that we would throw
Georgia and Sam and how that would all
work and I just think it was it was
great because obviously characterized
appearances are completely out of the
blue in the villa but even more so when
we've taken about my favorite Georgia
said you know cat
sorry not right now Carolina
no Caroline babe
that was a good one how about you and I
think for me it would be Georgia and the
kiss and had she gone in again I think I
just the whole debate around that I mean
literally watching the show my whatsapp
was just going mad of everyone going
what really happened what will happen
and I just kind of and I was just loved
as a view just the whole Lora dynamic
with where's and Josh I just found it
really from a female point of view I
just I love the opening up of you know
is the grass greener and also Laura
fronting it out and having really bold
conversations I thought that was really
impressive yep my lap - yeah I think the
return of Catherine Moore and Josh
returning back with water was sort of
one of those moments that defines love
Island yeah which is sort of when you
you know it's coming as a viewer and you
know that moment and Georgia blesser
isn't one to sort of let her feelings
bubble under and so you know it was the
whole hashtag loyal moment and it was
that was fantastic and I think the other
thing was was these two and sort of the
love story from day one was sort of
massively you know the whole nation fell
in love with you - falling in love I was
waiting for them just to have like a
little straightaway a nice moment it's a
really weird moment do you know what for
me it was Meghan's declarations where's
because she is an example of someone who
wasn't very open with her feelings at
the beginning she wasn't very confident
in herself as a person with other people
and all of a sudden for the first time
ever she fell in love and felt like she
had the confidence to tell someone how
she felt rather than hold it back and
that was the moment for me that gave me
a little tear yeah it was lovely
watching Meghan come through and how
gross throughout the series and even
seeing them now I saw them the other day
like it is amazing Johnny how about you
art I think with the you know would you
like the prom thing with the dresses and
that was really nice and a declaration
stuff because it yeah it was that was a
really emotional Roxy it was like our
final night all together so it's like a
final night we always like oh this is so
sad like I've woke up with you feeling
every single day so yeah it was yeah
definitely like the final night and the
hot air balloon have you ever been on a
hot air balloon before no I loved it
it's quite scary I thought like when you
actually see how high about well
obviously it's really high up but when I
was watching did you have a camera man
literally like right next year or was it
now he was it was our opposite okay so
we like that I don't care about cameras
I put it anywhere I'm the last one yeah
achieve series next maybe around blog
alive you know and we are gonna open up
the questions to the audience so if you
could just raise your hand and then I'll
give you a point okay oh okay
mike has to reach in the years before I
feel like there's been loads of
conversations a lot of good gossiping
around having a cigarette and I think
that kind of just completely stopped
this year and I do worry if you're all
like in a cabin having a cigarette like
going off one by one I'm like are we
missing out on some really good
conversations can you repeat that
yes you can talk about the logistics of
smoking in the last series that we
wouldn't have smoking within the villa
and the Islanders would go one by one
and I don't I genuinely don't I mean my
I saw a lot of that comment online but I
genuinely don't think that anything was
missed because people would still have
the same sort of things that they wanted
to talk about and when they went to have
a cigarette out at the front of the
villa on their own there was sort of no
outlet because there was no one to talk
to there so they'd still come back
in and I think they genuinely would have
the same conversations back in the villa
but it just wasn't in that sort of
smoking area setting so I don't I don't
think anything was missed I genuinely
don't if they were together outside snow
yeah this is a question for Jack and
Danny when you're in the video how much
information we give them from the
outside world and did you know about
England in the World Cup no I didn't
know nothing I said no literally nothing
you can't living in that moment there
yeah sometimes you forget about the are
so those are lucky in a corner but they
wouldn't show one so knows that being
there they don't say anything yeah I
kept asking about the score that was
coming in did you get any information
yeah
they just told me at school let's go
with this okay next question
so I forget there's a guy's got Passover
my questions for Caroline
basically how did you interpreting and
how could I go about it I feel like I'm
quite ancient now when it comes to how I
got into TV because I made a show with
my twin sister
and we walked around my village this is
so boring and talked about where I live
but it was when you did it on VHS
so my show role was on VHS and I
basically cut something together and
sent it to every single agent I could
find in a book called contacts and the
agent who took me on at the time was the
only one who replied to me and from then
on yeah I just took me two years to get
my first job and it was a job about
football I don't know anything about
football so I had to learn and yeah you
kind of just learn your craft really I
kind of learned from that each each job
you went onto it was different you sort
of learned more and more about the way
TV works and I did three hours live of
kids TV every Saturday so then you learn
how to do
TV and it just went on from there really
yeah but it was it was making it was it
was I suppose now we're very different
you would upload something to YouTube
and you can start your own podcast or
you can start your own channel so it's
completely different to how I did it'd
be in a way it's similar cuz you're just
kind of putting out there
the kind of things you want to do I want
to see the show I love that but yeah
it's exactly the same I suppose not VHS
but you'd better sleep on YouTube now of
you around your village if you have one
next question yep hi I just wondered in
the casting process if you have a kind
of idea of who might get together and
who might like each other is something I
should have said with the casting
process that we are always thinking
about the matchmaking side of it is
something that we have to have in mind
and you sort of as a team we'll all have
completely different opinions about who
might end up with who I think I'd like
to claim I had a sneaking hunch that
there was a possibility but you just
don't know you know until people are in
there and until they meet face to face
it's impossible to tell and that does
make you know in terms of the new
arrivals that go in that's an absolutely
key part of that decision because you're
all you're thinking at that point who is
the right person to send in at this
point which relationships are
potentially maybe a little bit rocky and
therefore which relationship are we
going to test by putting in someone who
we know is that one of those one of that
couples types and and that's the point
of sending them in are they going to be
able to have their head turned in cars
yeah
because that's the thing I actually
wanted to know when you send in the new
people do do you send them in based on
who they fancy pretty much you think
about you we always know in the casting
team are constantly on the phone to the
pool of people that we have sort of
waiting in the wings to find out who
they like so yes there is a part of that
decision which is okay we we think that
Casas said to us that she likes Josh
well we're not sure that how strong Josh
and Georgia are this is the moment to
find out if pears can turn Josh's head
then then it wasn't meant Josh and
Georgia weren't meant to be but it isn't
always about that sometimes it is about
which is the right personality to you
know that you feel that there's you need
a an injection of energy or something
like that
and then you look at the pool and think
okay well that person could be the right
person at that particular point okay
next question or stay on that side and
then move over so it's easier with the
microphone hi this is a question for
Jack and Annie hi guys
so you being watched by millions of
people and the violin is such a popular
show did you guys ever feel the pressure
to create drama were you ever like I
really want this to be the best love
eilen season ever no no I think you
don't want drama yeah
just for your own I see my mind you know
I want to copy bomb before the arc I
just can't be bothered a fear if
anything you don't want it you know no I
just be myself and I don't really think
of that like that just don't think of it
you just you just exist it every day
I'll stir up an X like yes you don't
think of it like that
no there probably were some people in
know that were like that but I don't
think you - next question
- casting how do you decide who are
going to be your kind of original
Islanders and which ones - what have
waits in the wings because sometimes the
old person comes in in the penultimate
week and you think god I really wish
we'd seen them from the beginning so I
think they've got a lot of potential we
all sit in a room and we basically have
lots of pictures of all your cast about
40 I think at that point yeah and then
we shuffle around having a big argument
for about two hours then carry on
arguing and then it changes the next day
it's just it really is lots of backstory
lots of opinions I think one of the key
things though to your point about seeing
people later on who you think might
great at the start that is quite
deliberate because what you don't want
to do is go through the series with the
sort of this is the right way to say it
but there's sort of caliber of your cast
members going down they need to be as
engaging as the people that go in on day
one they need to be and in some ways
more so because they've got to go in
with the spotlight just on them they're
only people going in in week in week six
that's an incredibly tough thing to do
so you sort of looking for the people
that you think will have the you know
will feel comfortable and will embrace
that and will kind of give it a go and
also because the casting process is
ongoing there were quite a lot of people
that we didn't meet until we were well
into the series and then it was
something like okay that person yeah in
another year maybe they would have been
in the opening lineup but they're here
now and they're great and they're single
so we need to put them in the villa is
there anybody that you hold off there
like maybe a future series no but there
are people who we've met and then
they've not ended up in that year but
they've ended up in subsequent years
because the relationship has started or
something's happened has it ever been
part of the discussion to include people
in the island who are queer bisexual or
trans there's been lots this question
has been asked a lot and the fundamental
problem with casting across the sort of
across that range is it's a dating show
so everyone within this format has to be
because this is a heterosexual version
has to sort of fancy members of the
opposite sex we've had people that have
been buying in there before but really
the only way to do love Island and
include gay people is to do a gay
version which you know we'd really be up
for doing if I do we do wanted to do it
because I think they will be fascinating
but you basically the way the show works
is that everyone has to swing the same
way you know
but the truth stripey I'm really
interested in those like
quintessentially like love island
phrases like crack on tearing my head
those kind of things I'm wondering like
does though today's phrases come about
naturally look us we don't come asking
young people what the hell does that do
you know
I mean you need to do you prymaat they
have reactive t-shirts every week you go
right this week we want you know do bit
society or May there we work closely
with the commercial team and so pretty
much three times a week will be
messaging what we all think is the key
phrases of a particular so yeah do bit
society features on the steamship so
does I sell pens from a narrative point
of view were you worried at all that we
basically knew Jack and Danny we're
gonna win from the beginning I don't
think we did know that I think people
felt that but you know there were there
were a few sort of bumps in the road
there Catherine Moore was with was a big
so and I'd you know there is no
certainty that these day we're gonna
make it to the end as a couple because
you just don't know so I think you you
know hugely popular all the way through
but we try to put enough things in to
test you I am there's a question for the
production team can you tell us you took
thank you very much for touching on what
the writers do on
show could you tell us how one would get
in
well how budding comedy writers could
get in to write on things like though
Island and other reality shows yeah so
mark mark Cowley who is the writer mark
bus County I should say he he actually
works with us he's full-time so he works
on I'm celebrity and he works on other
things but you know there is always
access for writing but sometimes we open
up that that group of people often they
come from a development side so a lot of
people in writing and mark does that so
when he's not writing he he's developing
ideas and we find that a lot of people
come through the development route into
writing and write on those shows and and
not all of the reality shows have a
writer you know we I think we're quite
rare on on that in the fact that we just
we think the script and the comedy
voice-over is so important that that we
have someone on it and just so happens
that mark works with us all the time and
we know working in one Iowa City as well
but it is it's a hard thing to get into
so I think you sort of Mark came through
the development route and then turned
into a writer if you don't thank you yep
another one for the production team so
you've spoken a lot about the producers
that are involved how much goes into the
direction so for example when you have
like those key conversations like what
the Islanders do how do they know where
to sit how do they know where to go how
much goes into that preparation and
briefing for them that is where the sort
of more constructed element does come in
and that is where we have and that was
one of the reasons for doing it that the
producers in the villa to some extent
are stage managing the the directing
side of it and where things are going to
be shot so it might be that a briefing
might happen where a producer would say
to Jack okay you've told us that you
want to have a conversation with Danny
about X or Y why don't you just wait
because we want to get everything sort
of set up and then when we're ready
we'll give you the nod
and then you take Danny to let's say
we've decided that the day beds are the
best place to do it and so Danny
wouldn't necessarily know anything about
that she would just Jack would just come
up to her and say oh can we go and have
a chat and then take her over to the
daybed so we do use that villa producer
to do that to allow the directors to
because on I'm A Celebrity Big Brother
you basically as a director as a reality
director you're just trying to follow
what's going on and you might won't miss
the top end of a of a crucial
conversation and that was something that
we decided back in series 1 we didn't
want to be in that situation we wanted
to make you know our production values
we were aiming for were very high and we
wanted to make the show look the best
that it could possibly look and to do
that it meant that we felt right okay we
will we will at least be able to dictate
where certain conversations might happen
and you know another example might be
that there's been a vote going on in the
villa and all of the Islanders are
deciding between them which couple that
they think is the weakest couple and we
would place those couples and make sure
that we got the coverage the best
coverage that we could possibly get so
to that that's sort of where the whole
idea of the villa producer came from and
then it evolved beyond that into them
being a confidante as well oh okay sorry
everyone packing for home but you do
have some stuff brought in and we had
this year we had a commercial
partnership with misguided so I think
the thing is that you take in a lot of
your own stuff plus and plus other
things that have been selected from our
commercial partners and then yep there
are drops I don't like they still like
it look better on you so we used to just
do it as girls and it was nice because
everyone wanted to share you ended up
sharing it closing there
yeah constantly went round have you I've
still got it I love and we all just like
wearing it was it originally I don't
know you say was originally now but we
all just super tight well did anyone
stop shoes there was a strainer like
yeah that I know it my trainers
you look well Corden when I was watching
oh they've all got you know okay well
thank you all so much for coming thank
you for your question thank you to our
amazing panel congratulations on a very
very successful series for all of you
did incredible so another round of
applause