Fans praise Heartbreak Hotel as the ‘Love Island they actually wanted

Fans praise BBC’s Heartbreak Holiday as the ‘Love Island they actually wanted to watch’ – and say it shows diverse contestants forming ‘genuine relationships’

• BBC Three have been praised for their new reality series Heartbreak Hotel 
• The series follows ten singletons who have recently had their hearts broken 
• Viewers have labelled series as better than ITV2 rival dating show Love Island 

While many dedicate weeks of their summer each year to watching ITV2’s Love Island, BBC Three’s latest series has been said to rival the hit reality show.

Heartbreak Holiday, which follows ten singletons as they holiday in Greece, has been labelled as better than Love Island according to viewers.

Fans have taken to Twitter agreeing that the show seems more genuine and diverse than its ITV2 rival. 

The seven-part series sees the contestants explore the island of Mykonos alongside spending time in a villa, while also having access to the outside world via their mobile phones.     

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BBC Three’s Heartbreak Holiday (pictured L-R: Courtney, Sean, Erin, Deano, Jordy, Melissa, Luke, Lauren, Archie, Maxine) has been praised as better than ITV’s Love Island by fans

Episode one kicked off with the contestants getting to know each other while also speaking candidly about their love lives.  

With a new episode airing each night for a week, many Twitter users have already said that the show is everything Love Island should be.

One person wrote: ‘Heartbreak Holiday is like Love Island and Ex on the Beach but wholesome and diverse and I am LIVING for it.’

Another penned: ‘BBC Heartbreak Holiday is everything Love Island should be. Truly inspirational with their stories’

A third added: ‘Heartbreak Holiday is legit a mix between Love Island & Ex with the added bonus of LGBTQ + fabulous range of shapes, sizes, ethnicities. All HEART FOR IT’.’

A stream of Twitter users have said the BBC reality show seems more genuine and features a more diverse cast than Love Island

Contestant Lauren Alexandra, from Birmingham, was a key focus of episode one as she struggled to enjoy the holiday because of her past heartbreak.

‘You need to move on, move forward and remove all of that bad energy,’ her best friend Brooklyn said after making a surprise appearance.

‘You need to let go and put yourself first and think about you. Holding onto like your exes and past relationships is actually no good for you. And even though you’re so focused, you look so happy and like you’ve got everything under control you actually don’t.’ 

Lauren concluded with her friend that the holiday could help her to come back to the UK a new person if she could learn to let go.  

Lauren (pictured) was urged to let go of her past heartbreak after receiving a surprise visit from her best friend Brooklyn in episode one

And viewers have been full of praise and admitted they have been glued to their screens throughout watching the reality show.

One person wrote: ‘I don’t quite know how I’ve ended up watching BBC’s Heartbreak Holiday which basically entails awkward single people going to an island and avoiding everything remotely like Love Island and telling weird awkward jokes and just texting each other all the time and I love it.’

A further penned: ‘Just watched Heartbreak Holiday on BBC and was glued to it for the hour. What has happened to me?’

A third added: ‘Heartbreak hotel is better than Love Island’   

Other viewers have revealed they were glued to their screens while watching Heartbreak Holiday, concluding that it’s better than Love Island 

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