Love Island's Shaq represents a big and important change for the show
On any given year, when they're sent away to Casa Amor, the"lads' holiday" mentality sets in and they'll often encourage each other to be unfaithful, irrespective of the strength of the couple that they might be in at the time.
But it looks like that might be changing in series nine thanks to Shaq, one of the original islanders in the latest winter instalment of the show. In a way that feels unprecedented, he's more than willing to call out the behaviour of the other guys on the show, in a way that can – hopefully – lead to some meaningful changes in how the men interact with not only each other, but the women that they're coupled up with.
One of the most striking moments is the extent to which Ron struggles to take the idea of being held to account seriously; his first response when Shaq brings this up is to ask"are you joking?"to call each other out on their behaviour. What's admirable is the extent to which Shaq is willing to double down and insist that he isn't joking.
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