From giving up their phones to not getting booze – the Love Island Australia contestants had to follow some pretty wild rules.
The latest season of Love Island Australia may have been shot in Spain, but it seems the show’s producers went to great lengths to make sure the contestants didn’t develop a taste for the party life. Turns out, contestants had to follow some pretty strict rules inside the villa.
Speaking to So Dramatic!, Love Island Australia star Phoebe Han dished about all the commandments that the islanders had to follow.
Most fans would know this, but contestants were only allowed a limited amount of alcohol. In November, a Channel Nine representative said that participants were “allowed two units of alcohol per day,” but Han revealed that the consumption limit was actually harsher than that.
The two-unit limit only applied to certain events. For all others, the islanders could only consume one unit of alcohol a day. “I was there for two weeks. There were only two nights out of the two weeks that we actually got offered the two drinks,” she said. “I’m really lightweight, so there was one night out of the two that they actually gave me water for my second drink.”
Producers were also strict with how much phone-time the islanders had. While Han was allowed to use her phone during the mandatory one-week quarantine – which every contestant had to go through before filming – the ones who came after her had to surrender their phones the minute they stepped off the plane.
“They took the phones off for the remainder of bombshells straight after they got off their plane,” she said.
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Furthermore, contestants were also not allowed to know the time. Each contestant had a different time on the phones they were provided for the show, and they couldn’t alter the date and time settings. In fact, when Maddy Gillbanks discovered that their air conditioning sometimes showed the correct time, said units were covered up with tape.
“There’s like nothing on [the phones]. Everyone has like a different time on it and there wasn’t even anything on them. All we had was like a camera, a gallery and then like the text that we get from like production,” Han revealed.
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