Overview

• Ofcom assessed viewer grievances alleging bullying, misogyny and gaslighting and found no breach warranting enforcement.
• The regulator cited scenes showing participants supporting or apologising to one another as part of its reasoning.
• Complaints totalled 14,167 across the series, including 24 about spin-off Love Island: Unseen Bits.
• July 24 drew 3,549 complaints focused on alleged bullying of contestant Shakira Khan.
• Viewers also raised mental-health concerns, claimed race and gender discrimination, objected to producers bringing back Megan Forte Clarke, and cited Dejon Noel-Williams’s behaviour toward Meg Moore; ITV declined to comment.