Alex George has divided Love Island viewers (Picture: ITV2) Alex George started his Love Island journey as the lovable, hardworking NHS doctor prone to a little bit of sunburn.

It was from the very second that the 27-year-old walked into the ITV2 villa – and not one of the women stepped forward for him – that he was painted as this year’s victim of the show and bosses have been desperate to keep him in that pigeonhole ever since.

While he also started off pretty comfortable in that box, the way he has spoken to and about the female contestants has become increasingly dangerous, as are the producers’ attempts to let it slide.

Alex is the self-titled nice guy of the Love Island villa (Picture: ITV2)

In a recent episode of the show, partner Alexandra – whom he previously decided to split with in a bid to pursue surfer Laura Crane – was seen telling her fellow Islanders about spending the night in bed with him. In particular, she revealed he ‘grabbed’ – her words, not ours – her hand, opened his shorts and put it on his penis.




Because he’s the good guy who would never disrespect women so is entitled to whatever form of human contact he wants, right?

Despite giggling about the whole situation, she explained she did not put her hand down his trousers by choice, and ‘it wasn’t down there for very long’. Which really isn’t a good sign. In fact, it’s downright not okay. It’s not something that should be granted high-fives from the guys, or toasted to. Whatever way you look at it, it’s dangerous behaviour.

Whether you like the show or not, you’ll know it is racking up record viewing figures – with millions of people tuning in every night to see what happens next. This means millions of people seeing a doctor grabbing a woman’s hands and placing it down his trousers then getting cheered on as though it’s acceptable.

When Jack brings their ‘passionate moment’ up to him, he subtly leaves the part about the grabbing out of the whole thing and just tells them her hand ‘knocked his penis’ – perhaps showing even he realised it was a bit of a dick move.

No pun intended.

Alex grabbed Alexandra’s hand and put it on his penis (Picture: ITV2)

What’s more is that Alex gets rewarded for ‘coming out of his shell’ and ‘finally getting close to a girl’ by being able to go on a date with her the next day and, later, a night alone in the hideaway.

Millions of us at home watched on as he shared drinks with Alexandra and lapped up her affection, which means that millions of people will think the way he acted is okay and they will also be rewarded if they act in similar ways.

With the #MeToo movement still clear in everyone’s minds, surely this is the last thing bosses should be encouraging?

However, this isn’t an isolated incident where Alex is concerned.

With every female that walked into the villa, he assumed himself to be given the first chance to speak to her because he was the ‘unhappy single one’ and was unimpressed when said bombshell was clearly interested in someone else.

At first, we all sympathised – who wouldn’t be a little gutted if everyone you fancied didn’t feel the same way? But soon his upset gave way to something more sinister and his warped sense of entitlement became clear.

He almost flourished in the victim role – questioning his fellow ‘Do Bits Society’ members on what was wrong with him, making the public feel it was everyone else’s fault but his.



However, cracks in his façade appeared when Ellie appeared to have a genuine attraction for him, and the doctor – as well as the entire country – rejoiced at the notion that he was finally going to be able to do those bits the other guys had been banging on about.

Ellie was fuming with Alex (Picture: ITV2)

But, when she asked him to take it slow, and not put so much pressure on their day-old relationship, he went the complete other way and kissed her in full view of the rest of the villa – leading many of his co-stars to cheer. Not only did he completely ignore her wishes to take things slow, he also totally overlooked the fact she looked visibly uncomfortable after the kiss. Because who cares what she wants when he’s waited a few weeks for a snog, eh?

Shortly after that he chose her in the coupling up session. However, when Ellie decided she needed to think about things for a second, as she didn’t feel any attraction to him – which is her right – he kicked off big time. Throwing every single one of his toys out of the pram and showing his entitlement as the ‘good guy’ of the villa, he ultimately branded her ‘rude’, shouted her down and accused her of only paying him attention so that she could stay in the villa, despite her constantly explaining how robotic she felt their ‘relationship’.

All she ever asked was for him to slow down, but apparently it was all her fault that he was going too fast?


With every woman that went into the villa and ultimately chose to place their affections with another Islander instead of him, many questioned what was wrong with them for not choosing the eligible doctor instead of why they looked elsewhere.

The audience laid the blame on Georgia, Rosie, Ellie and Megan for not being able to see the obvious, ‘good guy’ choice in front of them.

Instead of asking why he wasn’t being chosen by countless women, and using the moment to analyse his behaviour – rather than just his sunburn – discussions raged on every night over which of the newcomers were game-players, snakes, sluts or idiots for not picking victim Alex.

Alex tried to make it work with Grace in Casa Amor (Picture: ITV2)

When the boys finally got shipped off to Casa Amor, it truly seemed like his luck would change but instead, his true feelings towards women shone through.

When Charlie showed an interest in him, and they seemed to enjoy actual conversations, he seemed to be relieved that he had finally found someone on his level and, luckily enough for her, she was a ‘natural beauty who didn’t wear much make-up’.

But instead of trying to take that budding romance a step further, he randomly decided to ditch her to share a bed with hairdresser Grace Wardle – something she previously showed zero interest in. And if this didn’t send alarm bells ringing on how he seems to treat women, the way he discussed going between the two women did.

‘It was a 89th minute substitution so Gracie is in bed and Charlie is on the subs bench,’ he told the other Islanders. ‘We’ll see how it goes… She’s a nice girl. I don’t know if it’s a romantic thing at the moment but we’ll see.


‘Last night I put Charlie in the substitute bed unfortunately because I wanted to spend more time with Grace and it was nice to chill with her,’ he added the camera.

Alex’s behaviour is downright dangerous (Picture: ITV2)

Let’s get something straight, this isn’t an acceptable way to speak about women at all – not from Jack, not from Adam and not from the supposed ‘nice guy of the villa’.

But again, like his chat with Ellie, no one pulls him up on why this isn’t an okay thing to say and the boys take turns high-fiving his change in persona.

When Ellie dared to explain her side of the story, asking him to take things slower, he shouted her down.

When Laura Crane entered the villa, he turned on Alexandra and told everyone she was begging him to make things exclusive.

When his flirtation with the surfer fell apart, he ran back to Alexandra and made her look pathetic for crying after she was forced to couple up with him. When he was found to be lying about the extent of his affections for her post-lie detector test, he turned it back on her and said it was her fault for phrasing the questions in such a way.

Whatever way you want to look at, this is dangerous behaviour.

No matter what your social standing is, where you come from, or what you do for a living, and with the millions of people tuning in every night, ITV2 bosses have a duty to highlight his wrongdoing for the nation to see, instead of rewarding his ‘victim’ status.

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