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Love Island viewers couldn’t help but feel for presenter Maya Jama as she struggled to keep her composure due to the harsh winds.

The 28-year-old was presented live from South Africa during Monday night’s show as the final was underway.

Before Kai Fagan and Sanam Harrinanan were announced our 2023 winners however fans were a little distracted by the noise of the intense weather.

After Maya gushed at the remaining couples declaring their love for one another, she joked: ‘I’m in my feels literally there’s tears, maybe it’s the wind, I dunno.’

Fans also claimed the sound made the last episode a little difficult to watch.

‘The way the wind is blowing them sparklers. Please fire fighters better be close,’ one person tweeted.

‘Who else can almost feel the wind through the screen?’ another added.

‘There is no need for them to be fighting the wind like this,’ a third person tweeted.

Ferocious weather aside, this didn’t rain on Kai and Sanam’s parade as they were crowned our series nine champions.

Following Will Young and Jessie Wynter’s dumping in the semi-final, the finalists consisted of Kai and Sanam, Ron Hall and Lana Jenkins , Shaq Muhammad and Tanya Manhenga , and Tom Clare and Samie Elishi .

Love Island fans were equally as thrilled, after championing Kai and Sanam for the win for weeks.

‘WE DID IT GUYS WE MADE KANAM WIN’, one Twitter user celebrated.

‘YES the right couple won!’, exclaimed another.

Getting all emotional over the teacher and social worker’s connection, one fan penned: ‘They’re such a stunning couple, congratulations to Sanam & Kai. The best couple won. It’s not about how long you’ve been together but genuine chemistry & connection. I hope your love continues to grow!’

Love Island is available to stream on ITVX.

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Love Island fans were left moaning over the opening segment of the show as it returned for a special reunion episode on Sunday night.

Love Island ’s winter series returned for one special episode tonight as the ITV2 reality show hosted its reunion just a week after the grand final in South Africa.

New Love Island host Maya Jama was joined live in the studio by superfans Indiyah Polack , Sam Thompson and all 35 of the 2022 Islanders to relive the most dramatic moments from this year’s series.

Yet the live show kicked off with a performance of an Ella Henderson track in the ITV studio, which Love Island viewers bemoaned as not relevant to the show.

Taking to Twitter , one wrote: “Already off to a bad start with this performance lmao,” a second questioned: “Is this a concert or a reunion??”

Another asked: “Is this live performance necessary??!” as another chimed: “That song went on for a bit too long.”

“A whole 5 mins for this middle of the road, go-home-the-club is closing song oh lord,” another wrote.

It comes after a fashion insider claimed Love Island’s social media ban could be the end of the show as we know it.

The stars of the current series have left the villa with underwhelming numbers of Instagram followers after a change in rules stopped them from building their social media presence while on the ITV2 show.

Last week Pretty Little Thing – who signed Molly-Mae Hague and Gemma Owen from the show – revealed they will not sign anyone from the most recent series. And now insiders claim budding influencers are put off applying for the next series as they miss out on big money deals.

It’s been claimed that the number of singletons applying for the show have already “slumped” following the latest series.

A spokesman for ITV told the Mirror: “Love Island is primarily about people looking for love.”

This year’s winners Kai Fagan and Sanam Harrinanan, had 173,000 and 153,000 Instagram followers respectively the day after they left the villa last week.

Meanwhile, Gemma Owen finished the summer series last year with over a million followers – after gaining 920,000 while her family ran her Instagram account during the show.

None of this year’s contestants have left the villa with more than a million followers on Instagram.

The closest is Jessie Renee Wynter with 709,000 – although she previously appeared on the Australian version of the show before a social media ban was in place.

Her boyfriend Will Young has 499,000 followers but was already a hit on social media before he entered the villa.

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When Billie Ozturk walks down the street with her twin sister Jasmine Reynolds they regularly receive unsolicited sexualised comments. The 26-year-old from Essex remembers one occasion when a man passing in a car shouted: “Wonder if their boobs are the same?” and another time when a builder said audibly to his friend: “I’d love to have a set of twins in bed.” It isn’t just strangers who make comments, the sisters receive remarks in their dating lives too. One person asked Billie: “Why do you think your boyfriend went for you and not Jasmine?”

Often the sisters feel social pressure to laugh such comments off; but underneath they find them hard to deal with. While most adults are considered autonomous individuals, twins are regularly treated as two halves of a whole. This has the two-fold effect of making one twin forgettable (Billie worked in a pharmacy for two years before her sister but their manager still couldn’t tell them apart) while being treated as though they don’t have free will independent of each other. In short : they become a package deal.

On more than one occasion twins Kate and Simone, 37, from London, say men have approached them in a bar and said they don’t have a preference on which to talk to – they will take either. Although this did once lead to Kate dating someone – “he initially started chatting to my sister at a party, but she had a boyfriend at the time so she introduced us” – on the whole the sisters hate it. “We have been asked for threesomes on countless occasions. Once a man even offered to pay us. We had to highlight one too many times that it’s incest and f**king weird.”

When Love Island producers selected 20-year-old twins Jess and Eve Gale for the 2020 line-up they were playing into long-established ideas about twin sisters. And it didn’t take long for them to get the intended reaction. As the twins arrived fellow contestant Mike said: “Twice is definitely nice, you know what I mean?” and now-ex-Islander Ollie knocked over his drink in excitement.

Although viewers criticised the show for sending the sisters on double dates, dressing them in matching outfits and generally selling them as a buy-one-get-one-free deal (until Eve was voted out on 19 January), the fetishisation of the twins was seen as largely acceptable. But the thought of siblings flirting with each other in any other context, and then broadcast on primetime TV, would likely be reported to Ofcom.

The first recorded evidence of twins comes from around 300BC – a time when the arrival of two live babies would have understandably been perceived as something of a medical marvel. Twins have proven culturally fascinating ever since, appearing throughout Ancient Greek and Roman mythology (Apollo and Artemis, Eros and Anteros, Romulus and Remus, Castor and Pollux, Cassandra and Helenus); in the early 1900s when circuses still hired twins as a freakish double act, and in horror movies to depict the uncanny.

Today biology has made sense of multiple pregnancies. In recent years fertility treatments and IVF have increased multiple births. The NHS says in 2016 around 12,000 sets of twins were born in the UK (approximately 1 in every 65 births) compared to 1984 when twins accounted for just 1 in every 100 births. But the fascination persists.

Dr Mattias Frey, Professor of film and media at the University of Kent explains that popular culture is full of narratives of danger or wonderment “relating to twins or the ‘double’”. He uses the example of early cinema using the doppelgänger as a storytelling device in films such as The Student of Prague (1913), The Golem (1915) or The Cabinet of Dr. Galigari (1919). “[They] depict a threat from the ‘outsider’ twin or fantasise about leading a double life apart from bourgeois constraints,” he says. Similar themes have persisted throughout cinematic history.

“ The Shining (1980) and its hallucinatory rendering of two twin girls, is one of the most famous examples of the horrific potential of twins,” says Frey. Not forgetting photographer Diane Arbus’ photograph of identical twins Cathleen and Colleen, frequently described as haunting or creepy, or the disproportionate number of films and documentaries made about the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie.

But Frey says as well as being used to depict unease or horror, the ‘uncanny’ aspect of twins also fuels sexual fantasies. “Numerous adverts have used the figure of (almost always) female twins to sell products: for example, the infamous Doublemint gum twin adverts and their tagline jingle, ‘a double pleasure is waiting for you’.”

This sentiment isn’t exclusive to fictional twins in adverts either: in 2012 real-life-twins and ‘Cheeky Girls’ Monica and Gabriela Irimia, who came to fame in 2002 on Pop Idol with their song “Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)” appeared topless on the front cover of Nuts magazine wearing only thongs, spanking each other and pulling on each other’s underwear.

Twin Fiona Baxter, 29, from London, whose sister Ali lives in Oxford, says that as a twin she finds this sort of imagery “particularly uncomfortable”. “How do people feel this kind of incest is acceptable? To some, it is as if twins are the same person so it makes it ok, but it’s totally not the case at all.”

Psychotherapist Lucy Beresford, who specialises in sex and relationships, says the source of much of the twin fetishisation is the taboo of incest. “Sex with twins feels dangerous and thrilling, as well as exotic (by dint of being rare),” she says. Although this idea has been around for a long time the proliferation of online porn has made it far more visible and accessible in recent years, says Beresford. There are currently 1,700 videos on Pornhub labelled “twin”.

“Incest has never been, and probably never will be a socially acceptable sexual kink, yet, twins are,” says sex and relationship expert Annabelle Knight. “But, however you try and weigh it up, I’m afraid you can’t really have one without the other.”

Twins Hanneke and Lieke, 35, from the Netherlands, say they have seen this spill over from pornography into mainstream social media. “I recently came across an Instagram account called @datingtwins,” explains Lieke. “It was set up by the guy to boast how he is living “every man’s dream”, which you can also see from the comments. I don’t understand why people don’t think it’s disturbing he is dating two sisters?

“Maybe it has to do with twins featuring in Playboy or porn, but now it just has come to be something any may should want,” she says. Hanneke vividly remembers being made to stand next to her sister when they were 15 so they could be rated on their looks and similarity by a group of boys. “I hated that,” she says.

Sex columnist Tracey Cox warns that “in reality, just like with threesomes, most men would be terrified if their wish was granted”, so why does the concept of the fetishised twin continue on large platforms like an ITV2 show? Fundamentally Cox says that we are all interested in what it would be like to have another ‘you’ on the planet.

Clinical psychologist Hamira Riaz agrees, saying: “From a psychological perspective, our disproportionate fascination with twins taps into at least two complex and unresolved ‘big’ questions about what it means to be human.

“Firstly, the age old question of nature vs nurture – nowhere is this played out more compellingly than in the case of identical twins; the same genetic material, often the same early background, resulting in two distinct personalities and outlooks on life. Twins are a visible reminder of that. Secondly, twins live with the most extreme version of “duality” – being connected to someone else and feeling unique.”

Some twins don’t mind the comparisons and there’s big money to be made with twinning. YouTube channel, the Rybka twins , featuring sisters Sam and Teagan, has racked up 6.7m views on a video that purports to show the siblings communicating via “telepathy”.

Louise McCormack and her sister Karen Bell, 41, have also made a career out of it, starting a cabaret and jazz singing double act – Twin and Tonic. Although they have had similar questions to the other siblings (Louise’s husband has been asked: “Are they both yours?”) they’ve made peace with being seen as a package deal. “I guess we’re marketing ourselves that way,” she jokes.

Less than 24 hours after Eve Gale left the Love Island villa and returned to Britain, the remaining sister Jess confessed she was considering leaving too, as it “wasn’t going to be the same” without her twin. Only time will tell if removing the “twins” selling point means her romantic prospects have halved too.