ITV shuts down Love Island star Luca Bish’s claim boys were warned to ‘not f**k it up’ in Casa Amor-Ruth Lawes-Entertainment – Metro

Love Island bosses denied Luca’s claims producers influenced the boys (Picture: Wireimage/Rex/ITV/Shutterstock)

ITV has rubbished allegations made by Luca Bish that Love Island producers warned the Casa Amor boys ‘not to f**k’ it up.

The fishmonger came runner-up with Gemma Owen in this year’s show, missing out from being crowned King and Queen of the villa to Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Davide Sanclimenti.

The 23-year-old, who is still going strong with the international dressage rider, joined the ITV2 programme from the first day but was later moved into Casa Amor as part of a twist.

His antics in the second villa, also based in Mallorca, raised an eyebrow when he was seen in a clip played later during Movie Night encouraging the boys to pursue romance with the six new bombshells.

The Brighton-based reality star has now spoken about his stint in Casa Amor, alleging he was warned not to ‘f**k it up’ by producers to not compromise the show’s soaring ratings.

He said: ‘Not a lot of people know, we were standing there as boys—we got called to the outside of the villa—and before we went in, it was like “You lot are smashing it this year. The show is doing unbelievable! This is Casa Amor, don’t f*** it up.”‘

Speaking to Jamie Laing on his Private Parts podcast, Luca added: ‘I think every boy knew what that meant, hence why you had chaos the first two days or whatever with the boys.’ 

Luca stirred up trouble in Casa Amor (Picture: ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

Luca continued: ‘I went to the beach hut and it was like “come on, who do you fancy the most?” and “why are the boys being such p***ies? They can’t bottle it now.

‘I was like “OK, I know what you’re saying”, went out there and called them a bunch of p***ies, told them you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do.’ 

Luca is now ‘official’ with Gemma (Picture: Jonathan Hordle/Shutterstock)

However, in a statement to Metro.co.uk, a spokesperson for ITV shut down Luca’s allegations, denying the Islanders had been influenced by producers.

They said: ‘There is no truth to these claims. The decisions made by the Islanders are their own.’  

Luca spoke to Made in Chelsea’s Jamie Laing (Picture: Mario Mitsis / BACKGRID)

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During his time in the villa, Luca was at the centre of controversy and was accused of ‘bullying’ Tasha Ghouri, reducing her to tears, and of ‘controlling behaviour’ towards Gemma.

His behaviour towards model Tasha in the Snog, Marry and Pie challenge received more than 1,500 complaints to media watchdog Ofcom.

Love Island is available to stream on ITV Hub.

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