FAN FURY
Love Island faces ANOTHER race row as Davide sidelines Amber and Indiyah
LOVE Island is facing ANOTHER race row after viewers were left fuming over Davide Saclimenti sidelining two of the girls.
Fans of the show took to social media to fume that the Italian stallion appeared to avoid going to chat with Amber Beckford and Indiyah Polack, who are the only two black girls in the villa.
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Davide, 27, had just 24 hours to pick which of the girls he was going to couple up with after entering the villa as a bombshell last night.
He spent his first day going round the girls and getting to know them all before making his choice on who to couple up with.
Eventually, Davide gathered with his co-stars round the fire-pit to reveal that he had picked Gemma Owen as his first girl.
However, fans couldn't help but point out that it seemed the Italian native didn't give Indiyah, 22, or Amber, 24, a chance to chat at any point, as it didn't seem any conversations had been edited out.
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Fans of the show immediately took to Twitter to complain, threatening to go to Ofcom over the move.
"The fact Davide didn’t even greet Indiyah and Amber is bugging me," one said. "It’s basic manners to talk to every girl, he gotta go home."
"Davide avoiding all the black women like his life depends on it," a second added, as a third said: "He didn't even greet them."
A fourth chimed in: "If I don’t see Davide pull Indiyah or Amber for a chat this episode I’m reporting to OFCOM."
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A fifth viewer concluded: "Davide spoke to all the girls in the villa, except the black girl and the mixed girl. It's giving me racist."
The Sun Online have contacted Love Island for comment.
It comes after fans of the show branded the first pairings on the programme as "segregation" after the public picked the couples.
The opening episode saw Indiyah and Ikenna Ekwonna, 23, put together as well as Amber and Dami Hope, 26.
The other six white contestants were paired up together.
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On Twitter viewers railed: "So they've essentially segregated the couples as two black couples and three white couples...is this what I'm getting?"
Another Tweeted: "Who came up with this idea of people voting couples together? We literally asked to put (in) black men that like black girls, not force black couples together."
This is the first year that the coupling up process that always starts a new series has been decided by a public vote.
Previously the contestants have been allowed to pick their own partner based on what the individuals they were greeted by when they arrived in the villa.
The race row comes after viewers complained that many of the black and mixed race men who went on the show tended to go for white girls rather than black or mixed race girls.
That often led to a disproportionate number of non-white contestants being left out of pairings which led to them having to leave the villa.
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But the new arrangement has also enraged some viewers who feel the pairings set a bad example.
One Tweeter said: Another said: "Why have we put all black people in couples with each other? Interracial couples exist you know."
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