Love Island 2018: Hurricane Ellie tears through the villa

Watch along as we live blog what must be Day 1859.

Love island: Wes and Laura argue about the arrival of Ellie

Newbies Ellie and Zara upset the balance in the Love Island villa tonight, exercising their ITV2-given right to flirt with whomever they please and knocking the confidence of several female contestants in the process.

Ellie appeared to give Wes cause to second-guess his decision to get serious with Laura, while Adam straight up confessed that he prefers Zara to Rosie.

Alex, as ever, was caught in the crosshairs, hopefully swinging from the skirts of the new girls in spite of the fact they both seemed to view him as more of a pity date - though the trail for tomorrow night suggested his questionable nacho course at dinner somehow earned him a kiss.

New Love Island contestants Zara (left) and Ellie (right) (Love Island/ITV2)

Previously: Cancel the wedding bells, Wes has decided that maybe Laura isn't The One after all and is considering an exploratory flirt with new girl and Laura semi-doppelganger Ellie.

"I think it feels very cold in here, very territorial," Ellie says in the trailer for tonight's episode, but Zara is unfazed. "I don't think it matters," she replies, "we're here, we can do what we want."

The pair must force their way into the dating pool, which is liable to upset Rosie and Laura, the villa spouses of their targets, Adam and Wes.

"Mate I have not had a single chat with one other girl other than Laura since I've been here," Wes says in an epiphanic moment in the kitchen, to which devil-on-his-shoulder Adam replies: "Why don't you change that.

"That's what I'm saying," Wes continues, "the comment that got me was when you said 'yeah you're happy now but who's to say that you couldn't be happier with someone else...'"

To ramp up the original villa girls' jealousy, Ellie and Zara will each dine with three boys tonight, a different boy preparing each of the three courses.

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Love Island airs every night at 9pm on ITV2 except Saturday, when you're free to wander out into the world.

[18 June 2018 22:03 · Christopher Hooton]

An episode fraught with jealousy tonight, though not much *event*.  The trail for tomorrow night showed Alex getting a kiss however, which the nation is probably pining for more than three points against Panama right now.