Love Island catch-up: Tommy and Anton fight over Molly Mae, Danny takes Yewande on a date, and other talking points

Everything that happened during Sunday (9 June) night's episode

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Love Island's back after an unacceptable 48 hours away. But rather than the hoped-for fireworks, this is a bit of a night of the damp squibs (that’s an innuendo only if you want it to be).

Tommy, it’s true, is on his way to becoming the official Most Boring Islander (Callum’s gone so the throne is obviously there for the seizing). Anton is still working that wandering eye “arc” by chatting up attached islanders (presumably this is the angle the producers have asked him to follow).

Oh, and Molly-Mae has invented a new word, Tam-Tom, which is what Anton and Tommy would look like if their personalities were placed in a Star Trek transporter and scrambled together. And that is it at the end of an episode in which sparks conspicuously failed to fly. Here are the big talking points. Well alright, the very medium-sized talking points.

Amber and Anton are going to end up hating one another

Did you catch the soul-shrivelling glance Amber threw Anton after he cheekily ’fessed up to using her razor? He continues oblivious with his pampering routine. But she looks properly not impressed. She also comes across deeply narked off at him during the game of Sex Jenga they’re all made to play. We’re calling it – an Amber v Anton feud is bubbling under but soon to boil over.

Danny is… absent

We’d been braced for new islander Danny to make his arrival. He has – cue faint but not insubstantial drum roll – featured in a Little Mix photoshoot and Sherif reckons he’s probably incredibly tall and charismatic. Well is he? Erm… no idea. He popped up right before the credits as it’s revealed that he and Yewande are going on a date. Great for Yewande who deserves more screen time. But Danny’s big entrance will have to wait.

Did you crumple up inside when Anna hugged Sherif out of politeness?

The pharmacist is not experiencing any funny side-effects when in the orbit of her partner Sherif. He makes his move by telling her she’s intimidating AND attractive. She is flattered, a bit, and they hug. This seems like a big deal to Sherif. Anna looks like she’d rather be back playing Sex Jenga.

Has Anton lured Molly-Mae away from Tommy?

What’s going on with the editing? One moment, Molly-Mae and Tommy are utterly cuddlesome. The next she’s confessing to the other lady contestants that he’s self absorbed and only wants to talk about boxing. Not a lot happens tonight and more could surely be made of Molly-Mae transitioning from Team Tommy to Club Anton. As it is, it feels like a crucial scene has been left on the cutting-room carpet. Oh well, it’s sure to be included in the director’s cut ultimate edition of Love Island we’ll all be rushing out for the moment the series has finished.

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Key Points

• Catch up on Friday's episode of Love Island here

[9 June 2019 21:48 · edpower]

Anton is picking up where he left off at breakfast and continuing with his pitch to Molly-Mae. "Every time I try to speak to you I feel eyes on me," he says. Anton – you're on an ITV2 reality show. The whole point is that there will be eyes on you. Tommy is, meanwhile, fed up of love triangles. "If I see another triangle..." he says. 'Well I wouldn't do anything."

[9 June 2019 21:50 · edpower]

Michael tells Amber she's "proper full of herself".  Relax! It's a compliment. He then tells her she's a street fighter who doesn't take herself too seriously. She's vaguely flattered.

[9 June 2019 21:51 · edpower]

Bedtime! "I love kissing you" Joe says to Lucie. That's presuming he isn't dreaming and snogging a chicken wrap in his sleep.

[9 June 2019 21:54 · edpower]

Anton's hard work is paying off! All Tommy wants to talk about is boxing, complains Molly-Mae. Anton is definitely winning the battle of the personalities. If only she could wake up next to a mash-up of both of them. "I wish I could create Tam-Tom," she says. Sorry, "chive". Tam-Tom is the new, new bevvy.

[9 June 2019 21:56 · edpower]

Tommy isn't taking it lying down. He's made breakfast for Molly-Mae. "I cooked the omelette...why am I getting in the mind-state that I didn't?"

[9 June 2019 21:58 · edpower]

Oh look, it's Danny He's the new islander and he's going on a date with Yewande. "I'm super-excited!" she says. We are not super-excited, honestly – but it will be nice for Yewanda, who seems lovely, to have some screen time.

[9 June 2019 22:00 · edpower]

...and that's it. Yewande going for a drink with Danny is not quite a cliff-hanger for the ages, is it? Let's hope tomorrow night's episode raises the ante and has more going on than Tommy pretending to make an omelette (we know Tommy...we all know).