I’m a body language expert – Love Island heart rate challenge reveals how Islanders REALLY feel and could reignite feud
THE Love Island heart rate challenge is renowned for setting pulses racing - and last night's edition didn't disappoint.
While we're yet to find out which Islanders won the challenge, body language expert Judi James reckons one hunk was the clear winner.
"While the other guys resorted to what was effectively cheating on the heart rate challenge - lifting, shaking and even licking the girls to get their heart-rate up via physical stimulation and even embarrassment or fear responses - Tom clearly came out top," she tells The Sun.
"He showed superior skills and knowledge about how real attraction rituals work.
"Instead of leaping about to get them screaming, he moved slowly and confidently.
"He created lingering connections with each girl in turn via his famous and clearly most powerful flirt tool - his eye contact.
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"Instead of throwing the girls around like meat, he was gentle and thoughtful.
"The responses he got as a result suggested mass seduction signals that implied they’d all fallen for him at that point."
As well as exposing how the Islanders really feel about each other, Judi says the sizzling game could ignite an already simmering villa feud.
Despite them sharing a passionate kiss earlier in the episode, Judi says Tom didn't seem as enthused by Samie as he was during former flame Olivia's performance.
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"Tom might have signalled he’s back on the market," she says.
"When Samie started to work on Tom with her kisses he went into ‘freeze’ mode, looking down with a very blank facial expression.
"He did sigh when she was finished, but that could easily have been relief.
"His response when Olivia danced on him looked far more relaxed and interested.
"Like Tom, Olivia showed subtler, more sophisticated and less desperate skills of seduction, running his hands down her body, which was covered in a relatively modest cat suit.
"Samie and Olivia are already locked in an on-going battle and the Heart Rate Challenge might just have made things worse."
'Desperate'
Last night's show saw Lana savagely dump bombshell Casey, admitting she still had feelings for Ron.
He was furious when, just minutes after she 'friend-zoned' him by offering to be his wing woman, "muggy" Lana shared a kiss and cuddle with her ex.
Judi says the heart rate challenge couldn't have come at a worse time for Casey.
"Was there a sicker moment to get poor, ego-crushed-to-a-pulp Casey to oil up and lap-dance Lana in a bid to get her pulse racing? Probably not," she says.
"The heart rate challenge must have felt more like the Hunger Games for Casey last night as, after complaining about Ron and Lana grabbing a kiss on the bench behind him, he was made to watch the couple simulate sex on the ground in front of the entire group.
"Casey came out over-oiled and over-desperate, and Lana’s body language response as he arrived suggested she was even more confident she’d made the right choice in Ron at that point.
"Her hands stopped mid-clap to stay clasped together in a praying gesture and she pursed her lips in a gesture of disapproval.
"When Casey leapt astride her lap to face her out, her hands came up again in a barrier reaction to keep as much distance as possible.
"Casey could have used a defibrillator on Lana at that point and he still wouldn’t have got her heart racing as much as it did when Ron arrived."
Judi says Casey kept his shades on during his routine to "hide his true feelings and possibly his broken heart".
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She adds: "When Ron took over he ended with Lana wrapped round his torso in a koala hug and his victory hand and arm wave seemed aimed at showing Casey he’d won."
But with blonde bombshell Claudia entering the villa at the end of last night's episode, who knows how long it will be before the boys' heads are turned again?
