I was on Love Island – there’s an unspoken morning rule that drives islanders mad if someone breaks it

LOVE Island has a strict routine in the morning and there’s uproar if it doesn’t go to plan, one former star has explained.

Abigail Rawlings, who appeared on the 2021 series of the ITV2 dating show, has opened up about a specific ritual all the girls do in the morning.

She has even described how if this unspoken rule is ignored, the villa feels “weird”.

Chatting to The Daily Star, the professional tattoo artist explained: “Every morning you know the girls go for a chat and the boys go for a chat and I think it’s this thing that has always happened.

“No one actually tells us to do it, but I think that’s just how it’s always been. Sometimes people switch it up and they don’t do it but it always feels weird.”

The Beaconsfield born star added how without this morning habit, most of the contestants would be sent into panic.

She said: “Like if you’re up in the terrace, that’s where we [the girls] used to go up on the terrace, and if someone’s not there, we’d be like, ‘Where’s so-and-so? She’s changing rules, it feels weird’.”

Abigail also explained that most contestants would honour this rule and even wait to debrief with their fellow islanders, instead of catching up separately.

The reality star went on to say: “And then you won’t chat until she’s there and then when everyone’s there you’re like, ‘Let’s recap’.

“So, I don’t know, I think it’s just something you do I suppose, that was the reason when I go there, and we all just follow each other around really.”

Whilst on the show, the tattooed stunner initially set her sights on Toby Aromolaran before Casa Amor, however he returned with someone else.

Abigail was therefore left single after the ‘Stick Or Twist’ recoupling where he chose Mary Bedford.

She later coupled up with Dale Mehmet, but viewers voted them off the island. 

Since her time on the show, Abigail has returned back to her normal job as a tattoo artist, in a new studio in her home.