Our calendars are filling up quick this frosty January — and I don’t imply with precise social plans. Movie star SAS, The Traitors, Love Island: All Stars… 2026 is shaping as much as be the 12 months of actuality tv, as we watch actual folks — normies like us — push their limits, seek for love, and, in some instances, betray their besties. And sure, that’s simply on Love Island.
But on this planet of actuality TV, there’s a transparent hierarchy, and actuality girlies — the Love Island babes — typically get positioned on the backside. Assumptions are made about these girls, who ceaselessly come from a wide range of professions and backgrounds, in a method we hardly ever see utilized to different TV stars.
Throw them right into a present like Movie star SAS: Who Dares Wins, alongside Olympic athletes and seasoned actors, they usually’re typically written off earlier than they’ve even began.
As a lifelong fan of actuality TV — relationship exhibits are mainly my bread and butter — I’m so over the judgment geared toward my favourites, particularly these girls. Having interviewed stars like Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Stacy Snyder, I can’t wrap my head round how folks attempt to match these clever, bold girls into such a tiny field. However in the event you want proof that actuality TV girlies can grasp with the perfect? Simply take a look at how properly they’re doing on Movie star SAS in comparison with the remainder of the forged.
When the world met Dani Dyer in a bikini
Again in 2018, I watched Dani on season 4 of Love Island. I vividly keep in mind how she instantly paired up with Jack Fincham, and the way little appeared to shake their couple. Actually, I discovered them quite boring and was much more invested within the drama and scandals of the season — suppose Wes, Laura, and Megan’s love triangle. Clearly, now I’d give something to be dwelling that love story over my very own relationship disasters.
Dani and Jack didn’t final lengthy after leaving the villa, which actually shocked me — name me naive, name me a hopeless romantic. Since then, she’s made a string of TV appearances, together with co-presenting MTV’s True Love or True Lies alongside her father, performing legend Danny Dyer, and co-hosting the podcast Sorted with the Dyers with him. And sure, the Danny Dyer all of us fancy the pants off in Rivals — sorry, Dani, needed to be stated.
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