This text incorporates spoilers in regards to the remaining of Love Island
The winners of summer season Love Island’s 2024 grand remaining have been introduced.
Throughout their eight weeks within the villa, this 12 months’s contestants have missed a Euros match, an Olympics opening ceremony and a common election.
Their time inside has been nearly as eventful, with shock dumpings, dramatic recouplings and sneaky kisses on the well-known terrace.
However just one couple may take the £50,000 prize.
For those who do not need to know who gained the general public vote, look away now.
Nonetheless with us?
Mimii Ngulube and Josh Oyinsan had been topped winners, with Nicole Samuel and Ciaran Davies ending in second place.
Matilda Draper and Sean Stone had been third, whereas Jessica Spencer and Ayo Odukoya had been fourth favourites.
Through the episode, the finalists shared emotional declarations of affection with each other.
Mimii praised Josh for being “attentive, form, mild and loving” as she gave her declaration.
Josh informed her: “You talked about to me that nobody has ever written you a poem earlier than and I promised you I’ll so I hope you prefer it.”
The islander who grabbed a lot of the headlines this 12 months did not truly make the ultimate.
When he entered the villa, Joey Essex rapidly grew to become the bookies’ favourite to win the sequence.
However his antics lastly caught up with him proper earlier than the ultimate, when dumped contestants returned to vote for “the least appropriate couple”.
After a heated trade with Samantha Kenny – who Joey ditched earlier within the sequence – the Essex boy and his accomplice Jessy Potts had been proven the door.
Joey’s casting within the eleventh sequence of the ITV2 present acquired a blended response, with some followers upset {that a} superstar had been introduced in.
However others praised the choice, and the 33-year-old has been on the centre of a few of this 12 months’s largest dramas.
Love Island was as soon as one among ITV’s largest reveals however viewing figures have steadily dropped since its heyday.
Six million individuals watched the present’s 2019 remaining however simply 1 million noticed the top of the All Stars version aired earlier this 12 months.
Nevertheless, ITV mentioned the opening episode of the present run supplied the present’s greatest scores for 2 years.
It mentioned about 2 million individuals tuned in – up from 1.3 million in 2023.
The present has additionally beefed up its strategy to contestants’ wellbeing after two former islanders took their very own lives.
One current high-profile measure launched by the present’s producers was a social media ban stopping family and friends from posting on the behalf of islanders.
Beforehand, contestants’ kinfolk would take over their accounts whereas they had been within the villa, generally leaving them to face abuse from offended followers.
The ban, first launched in 2023, was lifted throughout All Stars however was restored for the newest sequence.
An ITV spokesperson mentioned the transfer was a part of its “continued dedication to responsibility of care”.