Baffled Jess Harding has Love Island viewers cringing as she asks if ‘reimburse’ is a real word-Emily Bashforth-Entertainment – Metro

Jess Harding had Love Island viewers in stitches as she got her words very mixed up indeed (Picture: ITV)

Love Island is known for its bizarre conversations, particularly when it comes to topics such as geography and the English language.

In the first Unseen Bits of the 2023 summer series, Jess Harding had viewers cringing as she decided to add a new word to the dictionary… reimbursinating?

While chatting to Molly Marsh and Tyrique Hyde, Jess had her fellow Islanders in stitches as the meaning of certain words went straight over her head.

It all began with Tyrique asking social media star Molly what kind of content she makes.

‘Real chilled, comedy skits, dance videos…’, she told him.

Tyrique’s face lit up as she said she did comedy videos, although Jess was a bit confused.

‘What’s comedy skits?’, she asked.

Molly then explained that she’ll reenact mums taking the laundry out in a jokey way… but the penny still didn’t quite drop for poor Jess.

‘Reinbur… Rein… Reimbursinating?’, she asked, believing that’s what Molly meant… although, she probably meant ‘recreating’.

‘What?’, asked a baffled Tyrique.

‘You’re reimbursing an action,’ Jess told him.

‘I don’t think that makes sense,’ he said. ‘What are you trying to say?’

Jess then asked for ‘clarification’ and so asked the other guys: ‘Is reimburse a word?’

‘Reimbursinating’ is, in fact’ not a word (Picture: ITV)

Molly Marsh was also baffled (Picture: ITV)

They then very kindly told her that yes, reimburse is a word… but not quite in the context she had used it in.

‘Can I reimburse my actions?’, she asked.

‘You can reimburse him a tenner,’ George Fensom explained, ahead of his dumping. ‘You can’t reimburse an argument back.’

Mitchel Taylor, also confused, then asked: ‘How do you not know what reimburse means?’

‘These two didn’t even know it was a word!’, exclaimed Jess, pointing to Tyrique and Molly.

Of course, they were very quick to remind her that was not how it went down.

Reacting to the hilarious exchange, Twitter users couldn’t cope with the awkward convo.

Jess had to asked the other Islanders for clarification (Picture: ITV)

Tyrique Hyde didn’t have much luck explaining things to her (Picture: ITV)

One person tweeted: ‘Was Jess trying to say re-enacting & impersonating? “rEiMbUrSoNaTiNg”, what’s even more funny is neither Tyrique or Molly corrected her cos they kinda thought she might be right!’

‘Jess is so funny! I want her on the show til finals’, another wrote.

Another tweeted: ‘Jess is killing me. She doesn’t know English and that’s the only language she speaks!!’

Now, this wasn’t the first time Jess had some difficulty with ‘big words’, or Molly, for that matter.

Earlier in the week, neither of the girls knew what ‘territorial’ meant.

Bombshell Whitney Adebayo then tried to explain what it meant… by using the exact word.

‘The girls are territorial,’ Whitney began.

Earlier this week, Jess and Molly had no idea what the world ‘territorial’ meant (Picture: ITV/Shutterstock)

Jess replied: ‘What does that mean? I’m not good with big words.’

‘Me neither,’ Molly agreed.

It’s going to be a long series, folks.

Love Island continues tomorrow night at 9pm on ITV2 and ITVX.

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