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Do they restrict alcohol on Love Island?

' Former contestant Liana Isadora Van-Riel, who appeared on the show in 2016, once told The Sun: 'You're allowed one or two drinks a night, either wine or beer, no spirits.

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Love Island 2022 (opens in new tab) is well and truly underway, and what a dramatic couple of weeks it has been since the new contestants entered the villa. We've seen sparks fly between Gemma Owen and Luca Bish, only for bombshell Danica to nab him at the most recent re-coupling, endless memes as a result of the Davide/Ekin-Su/Jay love triangle, and fans have already predicted who they think will win the show this year (opens in new tab). One contestant even quit before he got to the villa (opens in new tab).

But one question that many fans have been asking this year is - how much alcohol are Love Island contestants allowed to drink?

While their evenings are usually made up of getting glam, heading to the garden and enjoying drinks from golden flutes, there is in fact a limit placed on how much they consume. Unlike other reality TV shows, we don't ever see the Islanders getting drunk - and there's a reason for it. Talking to Tyla, former Love Islander Dr Alex George revealed exactly how much alcohol those in the villa are allowed to consume. He said that while he appeared on the show contestants could drink 'four small cans of beer and that was it'. He told the site: 'That was the maximum allowance of alcohol, which wasn't a lot. 'I mean you certainly weren't getting drunk off that – but they were very, very strict on that.' Dr Alex also said he believes it's 'so important' that popular TV shows reflect 'safe practices when it comes to drinking', adding: 'Talking more broadly I think we need to stop glorifying alcohol. Particularly at university glorifying alcohol consumption. 'The risk of death goes up drastically while you’re drunk, the risk of mental health illnesses rises in a relatively linear fashion with the amount of units you drink each week.' Former contestant Liana Isadora Van-Riel, who appeared on the show in 2016, once told The Sun: 'You’re allowed one or two drinks a night, either wine or beer, no spirits.' At the time, a Love Island spokesperson confirmed: 'We provide our islanders with all of the necessary precautionary measures and all alcohol consumption is strictly monitored by our production team.'

Will other reality TV shows follow suit?

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Digging a little deeper, Indiyah – who this week spent the night in The Hideaway with Dami Hope – wanted to know more about the treatments they'd enjoyed. Although Danica admitted she wasn't 100% sure on the Love Island lingo, she revealed they were both "clients" and had given and received "manicures".

From 'elephant juice' to 'ling' – every year new Islanders come into the villa with a whole new set of terminology for us to wrap our heads around. And that's especially true when it comes to the contestants' bedroom antics, with everything from 'NVQs' to 'doing bits' having made their way into the Love Island dictionary. This year, it's all about 'salon treatments' – but, until now, we've been pretty clueless about what those 'salon treatments' actually are. Thankfully, we can wonder no more, as on last night's episode of Unseen Bits, Love Island's Indiyah Polack gave Davide Sanclimenti (and viewers at home) a break down on the villa's 'salon treatments'. It all started when Danica Taylor revealed she'd opened the salon with then partner, Billy Brown. Digging a little deeper, Indiyah – who this week spent the night in The Hideaway with Dami Hope – wanted to know more about the treatments they'd enjoyed. Although Danica admitted she wasn't 100% sure on the Love Island lingo, she revealed they were both "clients" and had given and received "manicures".

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Later going into detail about what all that actually means, Indiyah told Davide in the kitchen that:

'Window shopping' = just looking around

'Manicure' = feeling about with your hands

'French tips' = getting your fingers involved

'Blowdry' = needs no explanation

'Full set' = sex

Afterwards, Davide said he wasn't keen on referring to sex as 'salon treatments' – although, surely that's better than the boys' talk of 'microscopes', right!?

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