BBC response to Love Island?

“It was hell.”

It is that David described it on a remote tropical beach on the tropical beach.

“Mosquitoes were just eating us alive,” they say. “I could not tolerate the amount of flies and nuts excessive heat.”

He also had just one set of clothes to wear.

“You just feel bad, you feel dirty,” says 30 years old.

He was not describing a boot camp. Instead, he was talking about his time in the new BBC Dating reality show, which was stranded on the island of Honeymoon.

Hosted by Davina McCall, it is like a cross between Love Island, at first glance married and survivor.

Couples meet for just five minutes on a speed date before matching by experts, make a fake wedding and climb on a honeymoon. Strained on an island, and while living in the beach slums, they should learn to cope.

For some contestants, it was a lack of makeup or beauty products that broke them.

“I love my fake body, I love my lash,” Helen, 35 says. “Nothing could not prepare me to return all this.”

And then there were loose.

29 -year -old Hannah, a third contestant, says, “I was walking on the beach.” “I am a festival girl, and I have seen the festival toilet in a better position that was the island toilet.”

Rarely, then, ideal conditions in which love find.

But this is the complete point of the show.

The idea is whether love can thrive in isolation. So can it work?

Critics of the current dating show often say that their “fakeness” is the most shocking.

The contestants say that the appeal stuck on the honeymoon island was exactly from the fact that all this was taken away.

“It’s less superficial,” Hannah tells me. “Authenticity was actually standing outside.

“You don’t have to wear beautiful clothes every day. You are not told what to talk.”

People often say on dating that they really want to find a companion. But Hannah stressed that this is true.

“People whom I was sharing the experience, they were not trying to impress, they were not trying to get brand deals, it really felt that every person was there for love, and it was a challenge.”

Facing adverseness can also be a good test whether a relationship will run in the real world.

Shrobiz reporter Katrina Rose says, “The way they are relying on each other, it can be a strong result outside the show.”

Some agree with David.

“This is not something that is just going to be fun,” they say. “You are really working hard and going to create a solid foundation with your partner.”

Another contestant, 31 -year -old Oli, says that it is the idea that you can actually deepen with this person in heaven “there was a huge draw for him.

“This is the right dating challenge in itself. Because it is a challenge. It’s not easy.”

Currently dating is a pile of reality shows.

Love Island wrapped only another season. At first sight the marriage soon stops, and the Virgin Island has been commissioned for the second series.

So do we need another? Ms. Rose – who describes the program as “BBC’s Answer to Love Island” – says it will be challenging to work this new show, but by shaking things, it can attract a new audience.

She says, “It is presenting something different, showing the contestants in survival mode,” she says.

“Emotional bets are more because they all get away from luxury.”

The introduction of a new show with a little older contestants can also be a sign of the nature of the dating scene at this time.

The average age of contestants trapped on the honeymoon island is around 30, compared to shows such as Love Island, where artists mostly occur in the mid -20s.

Oli, which is 31 and is single for six years, says it shows that people are settling later.

“I think people are trying to achieve goals before achieving more financial freedom or settling,” they say.

For that, the show introduced a way to “cut through the nonsense of typical dating”.

Others say that age has given them a perspective on what they are seeing.

In “grand age of 35 years”, Helen says she now knows what she is watching.

“It’s not tan, it’s not how you look, these are not material things,” she says.

“Do we like each other? Can we move forward? Will we meet through UPS and Downs? I think when you arrive at a certain age, you realize what really love is really.”

The BBC starts on 3 September at the BBC One and iPlayer, stranded on the island of Honeymoon.