I was on Love Island and producers help you write romantic recoupling speeches, says Shaughna Phillips at Wireless fest
FORMER Love Island star Shaughna Phillips has revealed a secret about the recoupling process as she turned heads in a tiny bikini top at Wireless Festival.
Shaughna, 28, shot to fame during the Winter series of Love Island in 2020, and she's opened up about her time on the show.
The Islanders' speeches during the dreaded recoupling give them the opportunity to tell their partners how they really feel.
But Shaughna, who looked sensational watching Cardi B at the star-studded Wireless Festival in Finsbury Park, has claimed they're guided on what to say by producers.
Speaking on the podcast, the reality star revealed recouplings can take much longer than they appear to.
She said: "Hours. Hours. You don't normally have to re-do… if it's something very dramatic, then obviously they can't really redo that.
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"But when you're doing, like, the 'I would like to couple up with this person because…' you do that in three sections. So you say that, and then you have a big pause, then you say the next bit, pause."
Shaughna continued: "You kind of go over it with a producer before, that night.
"So like during dinner time you kind of talk through it. It's really produced.
"They kind of ask you to go for chats and certain things. It's a TV show, so I get it."
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She also slammed the infamous Heartrate Challenge as "the most vile thing ever".
The challenge involves Islanders putting on a sexy show to see who they really get going.
Shaughna said: "I cried from lunchtime to the minute I walked out [to dance].
'I said to them [show producers], 'I will go out naked in nipple tassels, as long as you give me trousers, tights, or thigh high boots. I will do whatever you want'."
