Overview
- Festival episode headlined by Tinie Tempah introduced a first-ever triple dumping following a public vote for favourite boy and girl and a gender-balancing third elimination.
- Emma Munro and Boris Vidovic received the fewest viewer votes and were dumped, then Billykiss was axed after top-voted Islanders chose between the bottom two women.
- Former contestants Megan Clarke and Blu Chegini re-entered the villa immediately after the dumps, extending season 10’s pattern of production-led relationship shifts.
- Shakira Khan voiced doubts about her connection inside the villa and hinted she might self-evict amid the emotional fallout.
- Fans flooded Ofcom with complaints over the comeback twist, accusing producers of bias in reinstating eliminated islanders and reshaping coupling dynamics.