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.

Follow all the drama and what passes for it in tonight's Love Island episode with our live blog below (please allow a moment for it to load):

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

[18 June 2018 21:24 · Christopher Hooton]

He's gone from 'Humiliation Cerise' four nights ago to 'Defcon One' tonight 

[18 June 2018 21:29 · Christopher Hooton]

Zara and Ellie have dashed whatever hopes I had that they were going to bring some brain cells to the villa with that penis joke exchange

[18 June 2018 21:32 · Christopher Hooton]

Honestly, this show needs an Adam. Without someone willing to mutually masturbate with a contestant one night and then declare a preference for a different girl the next morning, we'd be stuck with a bunch of couple sitting around talking about who they might sell their wedding photo rights to

[18 June 2018 21:34 · Christopher Hooton]

He is on course to leave this show despised by the public, but goddamnit he is a modern day martyr. I know I'll be pouring out a sip of Cava when he inevitably gets roasted on the fire pit

[18 June 2018 21:38 · Christopher Hooton]

As Wes warms to Ellie, Laura is learning the hard way that no good comes from dating a 20-year-old 

[18 June 2018 21:41 · Christopher Hooton]

Seriously why is everyone so sunburnt. Aside from breathing, applying cream is the contestants' only other job

[18 June 2018 21:42 · Christopher Hooton]

"It would be quite nice to have a kiss, wouldn't it!" I really hope this whole shy thing is a ruse and Alex is a stone cold - to bring back a defunct tabloid term - LOVE RAT

[18 June 2018 21:45 · Christopher Hooton]

Sadly this is probably the closest we're going to get to bisexual housemates this year which, goals of progressiveness aside, is just a missed opportunity for doubling the amount of night vision boning

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[18 June 2018 21:57 · Christopher Hooton]

Laura couldn't bring herself to do Ellie's hair for the date, but you may remember Alex apology-ironed Eyal's shirt. We're really learning a lot about coded messages hidden in English domesticity this series

[18 June 2018 21:59 · Christopher Hooton]

There's been a lot of Kendrick Lamar playing on the show this year, who - Pulitzer be damned - I think always hoped his music would soundtrack a lukewarm date over a similarly lukewarm plate of nachos