All the times Love Island has thrown an Islander's ex into the villa Who we are Contact Advertise Tips UK Write Tips News Trash Agenda Trends Opinion Guides UK Belfast Birmingham Bournemouth Bristol Brookes Cambridge Cardiff Coventry Durham Edinburgh Exeter Glasgow King's Lancaster Leeds Lincoln Liverpool London Manchester Newcastle Nottingham Oxford Sheffield Soton St Andrews Sussex University of East Anglia Warwick York All the times Love Island has thrown an Islander’s ex into the villa Producers have used this tactic a few times now, and it never ends well 4 months ago Hayley Soen Love Island 2022 UK Love Island this year has gone and spiced up the drama by throwing in Gemma Owen’s ex boyfriend, Jacques O’Neill. But this isn’t the first time the show has done this, and seasoned Love Island fans will remember some of the historic chaos that has followed when former flames have stepped into the villa. Remember when Jack Fincham’s ex entered Casa Amor and Love Island received some of the most Ofcom complaints it has in history with how this was relayed to Dani Dyer? Here is a rundown of each and every time the show has used this tactic to get some extra drama. Gemma Owen’ s ex Jacques O’ Neill via ITV Just a week into Love Island 2022, and the producers have thrown in bombshell Jacques, who is the ex boyfriend of OG Islander this year, Gemma Owen. When Jacques entered the villa, Gemma told the girls “oh my god, that’s my ex” but proclaimed she had no intention of getting back with him. On the show, Gemma said she and Jacques split up around a year and a half ago, with Jacques adding they were together for around eight months. According to a now edited version of Jacques’ Wikipedia page, he was 20 when he dated a 16-year-old Gemma. Jack Fincham’ s ex Ellie Jones via ITV Chaos ensued when the producers of the 2018 series had Jack Fincham’s ex as part of the Casa Amor lineup. At the time, Jack was coupled up with Dani Dyer, and the villa was shown a video of Jack at Casa Amor saying one of the girls was his ex. His ex was Ellie Jones, and they had split up shortly before the show. Ofcom received over 2,500 complaints after Dani Dyer was brought to tears because she thought Jack Fincham was going to cheat on her. People claimed the producers allowed her to believe Jack was going to cheat on her to stir up drama and upset her, despite him actually doing nothing wrong and sticking by her. Tom Powell’ s ex Emma-Jane Woodhams via ITV Possibly the most chaotic example of Love Island using exes to stir the pot came in season two. 19-year-old bombshell Emma-Jane waltzed into the villa, and Tom Powell screeched across the swimming pool that she was his ex. She claimed Tom would “hit the roof” when she came in and would get jealous if she got close to another guy. At the time, Tom was coupled up with Sophie Gradon, and Tom and Emma had dated for five months. Emma then coupled up with Terry Walsh, despite the fact he’d gone official with Malin but she’d been kicked out the villa, and then Emma and Terry had sex on top of the sheets for all the other Islanders to see. Emma had been convinced if they had sex on top of the sheets, the show wouldn’t air it. It did. “A small part of me thinks she did it to make me jealous and it was aimed at me,” Tom said about Emma and Terry sleeping together. “Sophie thinks it was aimed at me, and other people in the villa feel the same as us. No one knows what goes on in Emma’s head.” Jordan Ring’ s ex Jasmine via ITV Season one of Love Island was feral. It was wall-to-wall carnage and the Islanders basically ran riot. Imagine the scene: A whole bunch of new girls are lined up to enter the villa and date the boys. Jordan is watching from the balcony, and then realises one is his ex. Next thing she’s saying to him: “You hurt me real bad. I am literally fucking gobsmacked that you could treat me like you did. All I wanted was closure, I didn’t want to get back with you.I knew I’d never get any apology for the way you treated me”. YIKES. Jordan then said he “never treated you bad once in the relationship whatsoever”, but Jasmine came back with: “How can you sit here and say this Jordan? No matter what you did to me I could never fucking hurt you, and all I was asking from you is just closure and you wouldn’t talk to me, you dumped me by text. You fucking screwed me over you dickhead!” Love Island 2022 continues on ITV2 at 9pm tonight. For all the latest Love Island news and gossip and for the best memes and quizzes, like The Holy Church of Love Island on Facebook. 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