Love Island final catchup: Dani and Jack announced as 2018 winners - as it happened

Crunch time as the four remaining couples hope to win the ITV2 competition

Dani and Jack announced winners of Love Island 2018

Love Island is complete. After two months that have seen fun, fornicating and friendship, along with a solution to the Münchhausen trilemma and cures for at least three diseases, the finale of ITV2's ostensible search for love has finally taken place, with Dani Dyer and Jack Fincham emerging triumphant and splitting the £50,000 prize money.

Dani and Jack were the bookies favourite and have been since they first coupled up very early on in the show. Kaz and Josh were tipped to be second, but were beaten by relatively new couple Laura and Paul. Wes and Megan finished fourth in the final episode, a couple who won each other's heart but never quite the public's.

Relive the Love Island finale with our live blog of the one and a half hour episode below (please allow a moment for the stream to load):

Previously on Love Island we saw Alex and Alexandra booted off the show. Support for the lobster-coloured doctor dwindled over the previous few days after breaking things off with Alexandra, the public finally voting the pair off on 29 July.

Meanwhile, the other contestants met their respective partner's parents, the biggest talking point being when Jack met Danny Dyer (albeit through Skype), the Eastenders actor calling the contestant a "top geezer". Music to Jack's ears.

Here's how you can apply for the 2019 series.

The Love Island live final was broadcast on ITV2 at 9pm and can be streamed on the ITV Hub.

Key Points

• Dani and Jack are triumphant
• Laura and Paul unexpectedly finish second
• Kaz and Josh are pushed down into third

[30 July 2018 22:02 · Christopher Hooton]

Wow. Sorry Mum.

[30 July 2018 22:04 · Christopher Hooton]

Kaz and Josh are third. I can only assume the public are sympathetic for Laura's journey.

[30 July 2018 22:04 · Christopher Hooton]

I use 'journey' not entirely seriously there, it wasn't exactly a Homeric one.

[30 July 2018 22:07 · Christopher Hooton]

[30 July 2018 22:11 · Christopher Hooton]

In that outro, Caroline Flack was referencing this thing in the news recently about how going on Love Island is supposedly more lucrative than getting a degree from Cambridge.

Seperately to that, and I'll get hell for this, I'm convinced I've learned more about the human condition watching Love Island than I did studying Medieval texts at university.

[30 July 2018 22:15 · Christopher Hooton]

This is a good time for me to recommend Burning Love, an amazing parody of reality dating shows.

[30 July 2018 22:18 · Christopher Hooton]

Laura has been an important character this series, kind of a bunny boiler but not quite that bad. The bunny only gets to about 60 degrees.

[30 July 2018 22:19 · Christopher Hooton]

As a 29-year-old myself, I share her sense of exhaustion with love. Good luck to you lady.

[30 July 2018 22:21 · Christopher Hooton]

If I had a litter of puppies I would trust Dani and Jack with them without question. Actually I'm setting up a Dani Dyer interview for once she gets out the house, we will just drink builder's tea and have a natter.

[30 July 2018 22:24 · Christopher Hooton]

Damn that was so Shakespearean when Dani was crushed, assuming her man was gone, while he was in fact sleeping on the sofa of a nearby villa pining for her.