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    ‘Alcohol is a hand grenade’: how reality TV went from boozy Big Brother to nosecco Love Island

    Jul 18, 2022 5 minutes

    As she waited nervously to enter the Love Island villa in 2018 – red lipstick applied, microphone on, nude swimming costume tied at the front – Megan Barton-Hanson turned to her handlers and made what she thought was a simple request. Could she have a glass of rosé? It didn’t seem fair, after all, that she was expected to “go on TV for the first time and try to strut my stuff like I think I’m Britney Spears” without a single drink. The producers said no.

    Barton-Hanson was one of the show’s “bombshells” – a contestant who enters the reality dating competition late to stir up trouble among the loved-up couples. But after her rosé request, the producers dropped a bombshell on her. “They said, ‘Just to warn you, when you get in there, you can only have two drinks.’”

    Almost two decades earlier, Nick Bateman entered the Big

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